Here’s Sasha Frere-Jones on Kraftwerk
In this week’s New Yorker, pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones breaks down why Kraftwerk was indeed worthy of a MoMA retrospective, and why he thought the retrospective was pretty good. Read More
Reviews
‘A Small Reportoire of Active Verbs,’ ‘Glistening Frisée’ and Other Things We Liked About the n+1 Review of Sotheby’s
We just got around to reading our friend Alice Gregory’s great article in the latest issue of n+1 about her experience working at Sotheby’s. It’s not something we could do justice to in a blog post, but we will share with you our two favorite details. Read More
Drawn From Life: ‘Matisse and the Model,’ at Eykyn Maclean
Henri Matisse was an artist for the Jazz Age, willing to practice for years in order to get a drawing right the first time, treating the obligation to entertain not as an obstacle to sophisticated experiment, but as its very foundation—or at least as an inviolable rule of the game. “Matisse and the Model,” curated by Ann Dumas for Eykyn Maclean, tracks the diligent charm, lordly insight and eternal flirtation of the artist’s gaze over half a dozen models and the course of his career, beginning, in a springily precise India ink drawing from 1944, with himself. Read More
