Arts + Culture

Mark Lamster|Essays

Bottom of the Ninth

My review of Michael Shapiro's new book on the aborted life of the Continental League, a would be addition to the majors, appears in today's Los Angeles Times.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Red Star

The New York-Amsterdam connection has been much in the news of late, and rightly so, as this is the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's Dutch-sponsored voyage of American discovery.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Moscow's Jewish Museum

Earlier this week, plans were released for the new Jewish museum in Moscow.

Mark Lamster|Essays

All in the Family

My cousin Barbara Schaefer is having a show of recent work at Shop Art, on Bergen Street in Brooklyn.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Tormented Youth

Next week the MET will put on display Michelangelo's "Torment of Saint Anthony," reputedly the artist's first painting.

Ars Libri Ltd|Collections

Walter Dexel Collection

A remarkable collection of the graphic design of the German Constructivist artist and typographer Walter Dexel (1890-1973) comes from the library of  Ars Libri.  Numbering some 85 items, the collection focuses on Dexel’s finest …

William Drenttel|Essays

Once Out of Chaos

Mark Lamster|Essays

Bowery on the Beach?

Has Leigh Bowery, said to have died more than a decade ago, been hiding out on the Coney Island boardwalk sporting a mullet all along?

Angela Riechers|Essays

Hot Ticket

To see a play or movie, or ride the Twentieth Century Limited, you needed a ticket, and the development of ticket-dispensing machines paralleled the growth of popular culture.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Urban Camouflage

As the Magritte Museum was prepared for its unveiling, the building was cloaked by a brilliant trompe-l'oeil construction wall, very much in the spirit of the artist.

Julie Lasky|Reviews

This End Up: Renzo Piano's Modern Wing

The Art Institute of Chicago, view of Modern Wing from Monroe Street. Photo: Charles G. Young, Interactive Design ArchitectsI was born in Chicago and raised up the road, but I never heard the word “fragility” associated with my …

Christian Bök|Poetry

"W, a poem"

for Georges Perec  To the V that stands for viewing what is all  around us, eyes turned outward, toward theconscious surface of things, surrealism hasrelentlessly opposed W. — André Breton A meaningless distinction on W …