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Since the 1970s, Kiki Smith has created an impressive body of work relating to the physical and emotional experiences of women. Her new site-specific installation at the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, titled Sojourn, was inspired by a significant 18th-century... More >>

Artist and fashion illustrator Lisa Grue has created a magical black-and-white world in which owls rule the land. In her first solo exhibition Owls Have More Fun, the Copenhagen-based designer, who has created works for Anna Sui and Nylon Magazine, among others, shows off her flair for... More >>

Tallulah Bankhead once drawled, “If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.” Spectators can have a chance to do just that when Valerie Harper does a solo turn as the iconic American bombshell. The play listens in to Tallulah as she... More >>

Godlight Theater Company is rather novel. Their past works include adaptations of literary works such as 1984, Slaughterhouse-Five, Fahrenheit 451, and A Clockwork Orange. Now they have their head stuck in another book, John Ball’s 1965 Alabama-set tale of race and murder In the Heat of... More >>

Folky jam rockers Indecision have played Bonnaroo, nabbed Cracker's David Lowery to produce a recent album, and celebrated a quarter century together last year. Yet the Charlottesville, Virginia, sextet rarely plays the Northeast. Openers Bulletproof Lincolns have almost the opposite story:... More >>

Bassist brother Chris you probably know from Medeski Martin & His-last-name. Guitarist brother Oliver learned his trade via the roots-rock route with other groups. When the siblings reunited to form their own twosome, they went more in Oliver's direction. Just to show that there's no hard... More >>

Populism and the underground join forces when Justin Miller visits Autobrennt resident Slowhands. Miller is one of the men behind much-loved DFA; expect disco-laced, indie-friendly pleasure and hope for some previews of the forthcoming LCD Soundsystem album. Slowhands' wide-ranging, ever-deep... More >>

Holland sidled away from the hushed chamber-folk sound of her first few releases toward something bigger and brighter on 2008's The Living and the Dead, which didn't always give her remarkable vocals the room they need to shine. Perhaps she'll stay out of her own way tonight. Rain Machine is TV... More >>

Pointillist gurgles and clouds of computer haze are made beautiful by boss Brett Sroka's design sense—this trombone, Rhodes, and drums trio has a deft touch when it comes to molding silence and drones into rich celestial balladry. The subtleties of the new multitude, solitude are a nifty... More >>

Brooklyn's favorite brahs, Oneida, laid low for a minute after their triumphant, 11-hour superjam at All Tomorrow's Parties. This year has seen a flurry of activity, including a late night drone-out at the Market Hotel in January and another three-set party at their Ocropolis space in... More >>

Dir. Stephan Apelgren (2005). This is the first in the Wallander crime series written and directed by Apelgren, and it proves one of the most engrossing. Detective Wallander is on an investigation concerning murders, suicides, and disappearances connected to the exploitation and abuse of young... More >>

French electro-pop gents Air describe themselves via MySpace as "a Frisbee that never lands." Yeah, that or girls—I've yet to collect on a long-won bet with a friend who insisted 2004's Talkie Walkie was sung without the Y chromosome. But their delicate, gauzy pop would sound saccharine... More >>

As all of those "You Gotta Be Here" commercials from the British Columbia tourism board showed us during the Olympic Winter Games, Canada has great mountains, great mountains, and Michael J. Fox. OK, OK, they have some excellent filmmakers as well, and this week, you can see what's new with our... More >>

If Obama hasn't exactly turned out to be the man of all your liberal fantasies, you're not alone. The folks behind the Left Forum—that annual international powwow of liberal activists, organizers, and intellectuals—know all too well of the disappointment and confusion that has... More >>

Dir. Joseph Losey (1951) An expressionist spin on Double Indemnity, Joseph Losey’s tawdry tale of sexual power relations anticipates his early ‘60s comeback, The Servant. As the unfaithful wife, Evelyn Keyes walks through the movie in a trance, helplessly in thrall to Van... More >>

Dir. Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman (1927). In one of the great silent comedies, set during the Civil War, a railway engine takes the title role. Buster is a brave little Southern engineer who sets out to rescue his two loves when his girl is hijacked by Northern troops on his cherished train.... More >>

Who is the Dude? What is he? Filmmaker Adam Bertocci has whipped up a cocktail far stranger than a White Russian, a mixture of Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona and the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski. This play centers around the misadventures of a character known as the Knave. More >>

As every recent (past 20 years or so) transplant to New York invariably hears, the Village just ain't what it used to be. One could attribute that to NYU's eminency over important sites of creativity like the Bottom Line and the Provincetown Playhouse, but on the flipside, the university has... More >>

The economy is looking up—at least, it is in the art industry. Apparently, art lovers are coming out of hiding because, reportedly, the art fairs that took place a couple of weeks ago made huge strides sales-wise. That's great news for this weekend's AIPAD Photography Show, presented by... More >>

Texas-born artist Rosson Crow has more than a little wanderlust. Moving from city to city, she sets up camp, researches various aspects of the city, and paints her version of its history based on what she learns. In Paris, she covered the gardens of Versailles; in Los Angeles, she was inspired... More >>

For his third solo show at Team Gallery, 32-year-old artist Ryan McGinley wanted his subjects to be completely nude—a slight departure from the layered-up snowboarders and skiers he photographed for the 2010 Winter Olympics' spread for New York Times Magazine. And although McGinley's... More >>

You know those kitschy girl tees that say ridiculous things like "Brunettes Have More Fun" or "My Boyfriend's Hotter Than Yours"? They sure make you perceive the owner differently, don't they? In his new show Fuck Luck, Austrian-born artist Norbert Brunner plays with that concept via... More >>

A warrior versus a warrior is a fair fight. But a warrior versus, say, a giant spider or a terrifying skeleton makes for a far more visually interesting fight that, around 150 years ago, Japanese print artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi chose to create. Taking another look at this once-popular artist,... More >>

If you thought the Grateful Dead were just a bunch of trippy dudes who liked to jam, you'd be missing most of the story. The Dead have long been studied by everyone from sociologists to musicologists and business professors for their surprising business savvy and groundbreaking idea to put fans... More >>

The most glamorous and classiest of women, including Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford, and Marlene Dietrich, have all walked in Delmans, the oldest American salon footwear brand now celebrating its 90th anniversary. Scandal Sandals & Lady Slippers: A History of Delman Shoes at... More >>