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Six Degrees of Collaboration 23 Aug 2013 | 08:33 pm
BalletCollective’s present-tense dance at the Joyce Adopting a film festival model, the Joyce recently presented a twelve-day dance festival showcasing independent artists working outside large estab...
Kar-Wai “Wow!” 21 Aug 2013 | 06:41 am
The pure cinema of The Grandmaster During one of the intricately-edited fight scenes of Wong Kar-Wai’s The Grandmaster, his first feature in six years, I recalled asking Wong in 2008 if it was true ...
The Six Eschateers 21 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
Edgar Wright arrives at The World’s End “Bluebloods!” Simon Pegg and Nick Frost shout, standing beneath the bright light of realization in The World’s End. At the climax of their pub crawl over “the ...
Triumph of an Iconoclast 21 Aug 2013 | 02:51 am
Llyn Foulkes’s brilliant retrospective at New Museum Among the first works in Llyn Foulkes’ current retrospective at the New Museum is a video of the artist/musician singing and playing his “Machine,”...
Uptown, Downtown Stages 21 Aug 2013 | 02:44 am
Summer theater remains in the city Can’t get away to the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor or the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Berkshires this Summer? Well sweat not (or as little as possible)...
The Saint of Consumerism 17 Aug 2013 | 05:43 am
Bio-pic glorifies Steve Jobs for the age of scarcity “You are creating from Steve Jobs a Moses, a Jesus, a Mohammad,” Mohsen Makhmalbar cautioned his atheist, technology-worshipping son in The Gardene...
Very Blurred Lines 14 Aug 2013 | 10:04 am
Urban romance and a marriage-equality hit in The Happy Sad “That man is not your maker,“ Robin Thicke teases in the hit song “Blurred Lines.” For a more politically conscious era (as opposed to our ...
Run, Forest, Run 14 Aug 2013 | 07:39 am
Civil Rights history gets trivialized in Lee Daniels’ The Butler “The room should feel empty when you’re in it,” says Clarence Williams III, instructing his waiter-trainee on the etiquette of black s...
Ken Price in Reverse 14 Aug 2013 | 06:41 am
The art of communication at the Met The crowd around me breathed a sigh of relief as we walked into the last room of the Metropolitan Museum’s Ken Price retrospective. “Oh, I like these!” said one wo...
Making Art Socialable 14 Aug 2013 | 06:30 am
ArtistEngage connects artists to the world Here’s an evergreen question: how does an emerging artist get his or her work out there? These days, the answer seems to lie in navigating an ever-prolifer...
