Neon is one of what Andy Warhol called “the great modern things” – a kind of lovely thing that can only exist in the modern world. Neon is up in lights, again. The gaseous element whose glamorous glow has been appropriated by one artist after another since the 1960s...
“The Woodswimmer,” is a stop-motion music video shot by Brett Foxwell. “Fascinated with the shapes and textures found in both newly-cut and long-dead pieces of wood, I envisioned a world composed entirely of these forms.” “As I began to...
Musician Frank Ocean headlined New York City’s Panorama Festival at Randall’s Island Park this weekend wearing a T-shirt with a simple message: “WHY BE RACIST, SEXIST, HOMOPHOBIC, OR TRANSPHOBIC WHEN YOU COULD JUST BE QUIET?” In today’s political maelstrom, and the...
We’re Approaching a Major Turning Point in Trump-Era Pop Culture. Critics and audiences alike can be suspicious of art that looks like it wants to have an effect. We like to be unsettled but we also want our politics to be confirmed; some of us disdain “preaching to...
SACRED BONES RECORDS presents PSYCHIC TV official music video for ‘Godstar’ directed by AKIKO HADA in 1985. The video also features an interview with GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE commenting on their ‘Godstar’ single and the band’s new pop-oriented musical...
Keep IT Alive is an exhibition of Alan Vega’s final work, a suite of haunting large-scale paintings he had completed just before his death in July, 2016. Born in Brooklyn in 1938, Vega is known first as one-half of the groundbreaking electro-punk duo Suicide, which...
