Tonight in New York the Tate Americas Foundation (née American Patrons of Tate) will host a dinner at Moynihan Station to raise funds for the museum, and the Glasbow–based artist Jim Lambie has been tapped to DJ the after party. In his art, Mr. Lambie has an exuberant touch, carefully covering floors with patterns of Read More
Karlheinz Stockhausen’s sound work Oktophonie (1990/91) is 70 minutes of unsettling drones and occasional violent bursts recorded by the German composer almost entirely with electronic equipment. Stockhausen, who died in 2007, intended for it to be played on eight speakers arrayed in a cube around the audience as part of his opera Dienstag (Tuesday) from his 29-hour series Licht. At the moment, it’s playing at the Park Avenue Armory through March 27. It’s perhaps worth mentioning that Stockhausen reportedly felt that the ideal location for it was outer space. Read More
Is there any greater pleasure than when art spills over into more mainstream culture? Think of Picasso popping up in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2011) or in a Beastie Boys song (“I use the microphone like Picasso used clay” in “Alive”), or a prized van Gogh making an appearance at a charity auction on ABC’s Revenge. Now there’s another occurrence to add to that list. Read More
The impressively consistent recording career of John Cale got a new addition this fall with the release of his new album, Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood. Today, Mr. Cale–musician, songwriter, producer, Velvet Underground co-founder and old time downtown hero–announced a brief West Coast tour with Cass McCombs, along with three shows at Brooklyn Academy of Music (at one of which, he’ll be paying tribute to Nico, and at the two other gigs, he’ll perform his 1973 album, Paris 1919). The dates are below. Read More
John Elderfield, chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art and a consultant for Gagosian Gallery, has written a review in Artforum of Bob Dylan’s new album, Tempest. Among the people and cultural touchstones Mr. Elderfield compares Mr. Dylan’s 35th album to are: Picasso, Coriolanus, Goya’s Disasters of War, “Carl Jung’s thoughts on James Joyce,” the Burial of the Dead in the Book of Common Prayer and William Blake. Oh boy! Read More
Bob Dylan’s 35th album was released this week. It’s called Tempest and its cover is really something. It shows the head of a sculpture of a woman who appears to have a look of fear or pleasure on her face. The photograph is red, and the album’s title is written over it in neon red cursive. Time was baffled: “We balked at the high school Photoshop cover art. That can’t be for real.” Read More
Here are two great tastes that taste great together: it seems that the painter Walton Ford has done the cover art for a new collection of Rolling Stones hits titled GRRR! that hits stores on Nov. 20, just in time for the holiday season. Read More
Back in 1960, John Cage appeared on the television show I’ve Got a Secret, and performed his 1959 compositions Water Walk. Someone uploaded a clip of the episode to YouTube a few years ago, proving that this is a truly beautiful world we all live in. Read More
As you may have heard, it’s the centennial of John Cage’s birth this year, and institutions all around the world are staging special events in honor of the late composer. It turns out that today happens to be the 60th anniversary of the first performance of Cage’s landmark work, 4’33.” Read More
Jay-Z’s interest in contemporary art is, at this point, pretty well documented. He’s said that he owns work by Richard Prince, Damien Hirst and others, and as my colleague Michael H. Miller pointed out last year, he’s rapped about artists quite frequently. Read More
