Posts from September, 2011

“He Still Draws Beautifully and Paints Every Day”: Will Barnet at 100


Painter Peter Barnet and law professor Todd Barnet talk about their father


Step Right Up! A Conversation with Crispin Hellion Glover


Enfant terrible actor/director screens his movies with slideshows and Q&As at the IFC


Picking Up the Pieces: Julie Heffernan’s Honest Pessimism


Her show opens September 3 at Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco


Function Follows Formula: Cory Arcangel at the Whitney


Equal parts hacker and historiographer, his central theme is built-in obsolescence


Alexander McQueen Double Bill


Essay compares him with photographer Francesca Woodman while review challenges unquestioning acceptance of his violence against women.


Savage Beauty, Tame Museum: Alexander McQueen at the Met


Offers feminist and museological criticism of the hugely popular show.


Gorgeous Metamorphoses: Alexander McQueen and Francesca Woodman


More than goth aesthetics and youthful suicides unite the fashion designer and the photographer.


The Labor Day Hotlist


TIPS is a new biweekly list of recommendations from our writers and staff