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Eric Rofes Eric Rofes died on Monday. This remarkable and very gentle activist was one of the most important voices to ever represent the "sexual outsider" - meaning effectively just about everyone who's ever done the thing, or even...

Aaron Krach Enough #1 2006 R-print 8.75" x 13.25" [view of installation] Aaron Krach You Can Make It Here 2006 neon on Plexiglas mirror 24" x 61.25" [view of installation, with reflected viewers] Aaron Krach United Nations Gift Shop...

In the last hours these two stories have appeared in the NYTimes: "Cheney Assails Press on Report on Bank Data" and: "Court Bars Info Request on NSA Wiretapping" So, the engineer behind the systematic destruction of our liberties is...

painting on manhole cover, most likely that of Reed Anderson [view of site-specific installation] I didn't manage to get to Reed Anderson's show at Pierogi until this past weekend, so as much as I would like to I can't...

[Somehow this announcement got lost in my email one week ago while I was distracted at home, but it's still worthy of a post, since we haven't heard the end of this story yet.] Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun Innocence...

Daniel McDonald Jesus Christ, Vampire 2006 pencil drawing 14.25" x 11.25" framed [installation view] Andrea Fraser Um Monumonto As Fantasias Descartadas 2003 mixed media (Brazilian carnival costumes) dimensions variable [detail of installation] Dennis Balk Untitled digital print on canvas...

it only appears restful between regular campaigns replacing casualties with new recruits Our apartment envelops this bit of the outside on its north side, but nature refuses to forgive a building for totally blocking all direct sun with its...

The Atlantic Theater's "Spring Awakening", which I wrote about on June 10, has been extended through August 5, and the New Georges' "Dead City", which Barry wrote about on June 1, has been extended until June 30....

no hanging garden, this [a section of the Green Zone perimeter] I'm tired of the media's [continuing] misleading descriptions of last week's flight by Bush to Baghdad International Airport and the Green Zone. If I thought it was just...

Helen Garber Young Americans 2004 oil on panel 35.5" x 29.5" [installation view] 31 Grand has come to Manhattan! No, the space is still anchored to its eponymous address, but the two gutsy Williamsburg gallerists in charge have been...

Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev Into the Future 2005 video [still from installation] Plus Ultra's current show may be introducing many New Yorkers to the contemporary art of Central Asia for the first time, but the quality of the...

I've had it. This Catholic apostate would like to be among the first to re-visit a question which most Americans had thought satisfactorily resolved decades ago, with JFK's election in 1960: Recent political moves by confessing Roman cultists have unfortunately...

Chad Silver Milkshake 2006 video [stills from installation] My apologies to anyone who ran into me last night at the Affordable Art Fair reception: I was feeling a bit indisposed and I suspect I came off distracted at best....

a truly Great Egret For some the Ramble is more for fishing than hunting expeditions, although we also observed the latter as we circled the north side of Central Park Lake with Barry's visiting uncle yesterday on an absolutely...

[detail of gallery installation, including a portion of Hewitt and Keegan's shared "Desk Reflection", Hewitt's "Make it Plain (4 of 5)" and a portion of Keegan's "Skypocket"] Wallspace has installed an inspired, minimal show of extraordinary elegance. In the...

This is the kind of show in the kind of space which just might save Chelsea from SOHOification. A lot of us want to be surprised and excited in between too many sessions nodding at the almost predictable and the...

no, unfortunately this image is very real, and not Trompe l'oeil [the Yahoo! News caption for the picture begins: Leg irons and hand cuffs hang on a board at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, in...

Yasser Aggour George and Abe 2003 C-print 30" x 38" It's a wonderful riff. Frederieke Taylor Gallery has mounted a [is it ever going to be possible to write, "strangely compelling" again?] show with the title, "Paradise Lost". The...

I know I'm supposed to call it a musical, but I hate musicals, and so at least for now, I'll call it opera. We were there because we have a subscription. This thing is at the Atlantic Theater (we...

Now we're finding out he wasn't killed by the 500 lb bombs we dropped. He had to be dispatched afterwards, more or less manually. We sure wouldn't have wanted him to be able to talk. Somebody might actually have learned...

only the lyrics change I'm going to start by pointing out that here in the U.S, in the best of all possible worlds, we managed to put racism and nativism behind us long ago and we are today totally...

I wrote a little while back that I would show some of the damage the school had done to work created by Brooklyn College Masters degree students. While this small post can't show the full extent of the physical and...

Last week while visiting the garden Philip Johnson designed in 1953 for the Museum of Modern Art I was charmed by the anthopomorphic postures of the Bertoia chairs, also just over fifty years old, which are found strewn (rather mysteriously...

Barry talking to his wonderful mother in MoMA's Sculpture Garden last week. The beautiful bright blue Impatiens crowded into their geometric beds looked quite jealous....

Somebody must currently be leaning very hard on George, perhaps some homo brute has a gun at his back and is forcing him to walk out on Laura and pad down the aisle once again. Why else would our Commander-in-Chief...