Dear Friends, Place Matters is proud to feature A Gathering of the Tribes, the iconic Lower East Side gallery and performance space, as January’s Place of the Month . The mythicized multicultural arts organization has been located on the second floor of 285 East Third Street for twenty-one years. But on January 1, Founder, Executive … Read more
Tribes is Place Matters’ Place of the Month
Posted by in Announcements | Essays | News Article | Tribes - (Comments Off)Branding the Antarctic for Humanity’s Sake
Posted by in Book Reviews | Books | Essays - (Comments Off)Branding the Antarctic for Humanity’s Sake by Marc Nasdor The Book of Ice By Paul D. Miller Illustrated. 128 pages. Mark Batty Publisher ISBN: 987-1-9356131-4-5 $29.95
Carsten Höller: Experience
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by Emma S. Hazen LAB REPORT: Carsten Höller: Experience ABSTRACT The New Museum is a laboratory and its visitors are the test subjects with the current show, Carsten Höller: Experience. In this article, I present my current research on the subject, including discussion with the exhibition’s curator, Massimiliano Gioni. The museum will be conducting research … Read more
You Can Never Go Home Anymore: The Conundrum of Pre-Apocalyptic Art
Posted by in Essays - (Comments Off)by R.H. Lossin The rain is coming down in sheets as a small group of sweaty people emerge from the windowless back room of a bar on East Houston. It is the after party for You Can Never Go Home Anymore, the inaugural exhibition of Louis B. James gallery and as we stand under an … Read more
What Proust and the Priests Have To Do with the Poem Saint Genet by George Spencer
Posted by in Book Reviews | Essays - (Comments Off)What Proust and the Priests Have To Do with the Poem Saint Genet by George Spencer by Robert Mueller This is a response. Do not turn off your accelerators. The constitution of the self is a problem that will never go away, and it will never lack in aspects to explore for those … Read more
The Great Amorphous Spill Jessie Mac Review of DJED; Matthew Barney Gladstone Gallery Step into the Gladstone Gallery and over what seems to be a massive oil spill that has condensed into an amorphous mass of solidified wreckage. These forms come in at a weight of up to 47,000 pounds, … Read more
“Occupy Wall Street began in New York City on September 17, 2011, and there are now over 1,000 ‘Occupied Cities’ worldwide. In spite of an extreme lack of media coverage during the first two weeks of the protest in NYC, the movement is now swarming social media sites … Read more
I’m glad someone else said it, so I didn’t have to. After a meeting of the editorial board of Tribes magazine, where executive director Steve Cannon had been stressing the importance of picking what we like and not what we think he likes or someone else would like, I got the news that Steve Jobs … Read more
I recognize the risk officers take every day they put on their uniforms. There is the potential for each work day to be their last. It must take a considerable amount of courage to accept that possibility and continue to serve the public. I am writing to you as someone who firmly believes in the philosophy … Read more
