A Sky filled with Shooting Stars

No one walking along West 53rd Street on the way to MoMA this summer can miss Mickalene Thomas’s remarkable installation Le déjeuner sur l’herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires in the window of The Modern restaurant. What may come as a surprise to many MoMA visitors though, are the direct links that exist between her installation [...]

    Anyone who knows the what’s what in performance art acknowledges Tehching Hsieh as one of the great defining artists of the discipline. Having arrived here as an illegal immigrant from Taiwan in 1974, he made a series of five quite unbelievable year-long performances between 1978 and 1986, at least four of which were almost [...]

I have, for the first time in my life so far as I know, been Twittered. Or that should be “tweeted,” shouldn’t it?  Down in the shadow of the New Museum, the Anonymous Gallery (underneath White Box at 329 Broome) is hosting little marvin’s ongoing performance installation, MAKE LOVE WAR.  (Yes, that’s how it is: [...]