True Form
I saw her again, last night, As I slept. Unlike any time before In all previous visits – She annexed my mind with incomparable beauty, Yet completely unattainable to me. This time, however, she was atrocious. Yellowed eyes, blackened teeth, scaled skin, Patches of dead, colorless hair strewn across a mangy scalp. Her...
Silent Scrutiny
I never will find comfort in this silence Where my every step is amplified No voices but stares cracked from eyelids And ears that do listen whilst their figures hide How is it possible to be scrutinized by relative ghosts That may breathe just as I do yet inhabit separate realms They do not eat...
The New York Literary Flâneur: A Syllabus
New York is the ultimate walking city. If ever a New World metropolis has seduced its inhabitants and visitors alike to play at being the flâneur, then it is the Big Apple. Despite the city’s dizzyingly exaggerated vertical axis, the street is a constant focal point. No-one climbs to the top of the Empire State...
Belonging
Eyes open to obstructed skies Not quite scraped, but somewhat hidden Sunlight bends and shifts Through glass, steel, and pavement Merged and stacked to hold our lives Eardrums quake to the energies Of all things near and far Folks, creatures, and contraptions alike In continual motion All tending to tasks unrelated Both above...
N.exile.Y
Giant buildings slowly shrivel to dwarves As my distance from them grows Their unending sounds and blaring lights Are deafened and dimmed by the tunnel As it siphons me away Through the tunnel and over the hill The air thickens and is made visible The land appears craterous and dead No pedestrians to be...
Art And Attractions Along New York’s No. 7 Line
By Catherine Kirkpatrick For art and urban scenery, Manhattan’s Chelsea district may be the destination of choice for visitors to New York, but with little more than a metro card and an adventurous spirit, unique visual experiences can be found all over town. One of my favorite train lines is the No. 7. Boarding at...
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Swept Away: Dust, Ashes and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design (review)
Swept Away is a understated and incredibly poignant exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Art and Design. Curator David Revere McFadden takes on unusual materials by presenting the use of the media as the uniting factor in the show. The 26 contemporary artists whose work makes up the exhibition all use the ephemeral...
All started with a crazy dog. An interview with Anya Liftig
Anya Liftig is a New York-based live artist I met last February in London at ]performance s p a c e ['s Valentine's Day dinner. That day I fell in love with her expressiveness and ability to go deep into our inner instincts with the lightness of a dancer. The first time we met it was at ]performance s p...
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Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present (review)
The Artist Is Present: Marina Abramovic has finally arrived in the US and is being shown in a pair of theatres—one in New York and the other in Los Angeles. Producer Jeff Dupre approached the seminal performance artist with the idea of documenting what would become her legendary three-month-long performance of the same...
