My greatest shame is that I own one song from a best-of-Willie-Nelson album. Don’t get me wrong — Willie Nelson is a lovely man, very…
Jorie Graham at Poets House: A Review (Blog)
This past Tuesday, April 16th, the poet Jorie Graham shared selected poems from her new collection From the New World at Poets House in Tribeca.…
The Sonnet is Not Dead (Blog)
Sonnet 154 The little Love-god lying once asleep, Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand, Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keep…
“The Woman in Gold” at the Neue Galerie: A Review (Blog)
Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” is certainly beautiful. It features a doe-eyed woman surrounded by and enclosed in gold, her hands clasped together awkwardly…
Junkspace: What The Mall Might Teach Us (Blog)
Rem Koolhaas’ luminescent essay Junkspace decries the mall as the slagheap of America. Gleaming and gaudy, the ill-conceived child of consumerism and commercial architecture, malls across…
Open Call for Cover Art
We’re looking for visual art to publish in our magazine. We need artwork for both the cover and the magazine’s contents. Submit your photographs, drawings, and…
A Casual Review of In the Studio: Paintings at the Chelsea Gagosian Gallery (Blog)
Let me start with what first drew me to this exhibition in particular. In part it was the artists being exhibited (Richard Diebenkorn and Robert…
The Morgan Library and Museum: A Review (Blog)
Perhaps it’s because I made a personal blood oath many years ago to distance myself from everything having to do with finance, but I only…
The Girls of Paris (Poetry)
The Girls of Paris No matter their age, they were always the girls, dressed in starched white uniforms, and white rubber soled shoes. They might…