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Five pieces: Joan Jonas recently brought her dance, music, sound, film, videos and installations to the Queens Museum in a selected survey reaching back Mirrors, masks and video cameras have long been Joan Jonas trademarks. Also characteristic of her work is the combination of multiple mediums, including ......(Continue Reading) The Music Lesson, by Katharine Weber, New York, Crown Publishers, 1998; 178 pages, $21 hardcover. - Review - book review The Music Lesson, by Katharine Weber, New York, Crown Publishers, 1998; 178 pages, $21 hardcover. Five novels and an opera, all recently released, ......(Continue Reading)First flush of fame: glam rock lives again in New York band the Toilet Boys, adored by Debbie Harry, fronted by the fierce Miss Guy - music - Brief Article When the Toilet Boys' video for their single "Another Day in the Life" first cracked MTV2's rock top 20 in February 2002, the lead vocalist for the band, Miss Guy, saw folks embracing the infectiou...(Continue Reading)"One Planet Under a Groove" at the Bronx Museum - New York - Brief Article Curated by Franklin Sirmans and Lydia Yee, this exhibition took on the enormous influence of the hip-hop phenomenon--sampling, rap, break dancing, graffiti--on ......(Continue Reading)Transmodern Yoko: a retrospective organized by New York's Japan Society Gallery, now touring, maps out Yoko Ono 40-year oeuvre of conceptual instruction Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. --Lawrence Weiner, "Sentences on Conceptual ......(Continue Reading)
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