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Alexander Lobanov, Untitled, n.d. Collection abcd, Paris. The opening lines of “From a Great Mind,” a song by the Siberian folk-punk singer Yanka Dyagileva, run something like this when translated from...
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Straight Talk
BMW Guggenheim Lab. Courtesy of Atelier Bow-Wow. Readers of Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities will recall the “Collateral Campaign,” a fictional initiative to commemorate the seventieth...
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The Varieties of “Experience”
Mirror Carousel, 2005. Installation view, "Experience," New Museum. Photo © Benoit Pailley. At this time of year, the Bowery seems colder and brighter than other streets nearby, maybe because it’s...
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Dance to the Music of Time: Tacita Dean at the New Museum
Merce Cunningham in "Five Americans." Several times a week, I sneak downstairs to watch dancers rehearse with Merce Cunningham. I work at a nonprofit located in the New Museum and its current Tacita...
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Every morning, I would start the day with the Smashing Pumpkins—haunting “Disarm,” anthemic “Today.” Over and over, in a bedroom still mired in childhood, where a mound of carelessly tossed stuffed...
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The Ultimate Example of Everything, and Other News
John Ashbery at the Brooklyn Book Festival in 2010. Photo: David Shankbone Our poetry editor, Robyn Creswell, on the New Museum’s current show, “Here and Elsewhere”: “So many of today’s iconic images...
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Staff Picks: Enigma, Exile, Elongation
Raymond Pettibon. I roamed around the New Museum last weekend in awe of the eight hundred or so works on display as part of Raymond Pettibon’s retrospective, “A Pen of All Work,” a name lifted from...
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I ♥ John Giorno and So Should You
Ugo Rondinone, THANX 4 NOTHING, 2015, multichannel film installation. In any given decade of his life in New York, John Giorno could be found right in the middle of whatever the new scene might be,...
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Staff Picks: Laughing Cows, Lo-Fi Bangers, and Convulsing Balls of Snakes
The devil truly is in the details when it comes to Thomas Bayrle, whose first solo survey in New York, “Playtime,” opened in June at the New Museum. His paintings are hypnotic. Large images are made...
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John Akomfrah, On the Verge
John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, 2015, video installation. When I get to the New Museum’s survey exhibition of John Akomfrah’s work, “Signs of Empire,” I find myself lying on the floor, a bootleg...
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