Craig Hubert
In an interview this week from his temporary home inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Julian Assange revealed that he’s in possession of unclassified internal Government Communications Headquarters records that disclose, in vague terms, a plot by Swedish...
Nothing about Colin Stetson’s music can be called traditional. His main instrument is a 5-foot-tall, 103-year old bass saxophone through which he creates, via a unique form of playing called circular breathing, swirling and hypnotic rhythms. As a sideman, he...
The work of photographer Gregory Crewdson is full of cinematic allusions and references, from 1940’s film noir to the suburban nightmares of David Lynch. So it makes sense that, eventually, the camera would be turned around, making the artist the subject. “...
So much of the chatter about television these days is centered on shows whose life has been cut short. “Arrested Development,” which Fox cancelled in 2006 due to low ratings, has become such a cult success in the television afterlife that is has been...
At first glance, Henrik Ibsen’s “The Master Builder” is simple: an architect, obsessed with the younger generation in his wake, channels his neurosis into the young women in his life, ultimately leading to the demise he feared. It’s been performed hundreds of...
It was like being sent back in a time machine. Denizens of New York’s once-vibrant downtown scene gathered on the Bowery last night to celebrate the life and work of musician/artist Brian Eno, honored by the Kitchen as part of its annual spring gala. At $500...
There’s nothing quite like celebrating “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s scathing critique of American upper class values, with a lavish, corporate-sponsored party in the Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III room of the New York Public Library, hosted...
According to legend, Jim Baker was an amateur bodybuilder. During his stint in the Marines during WWII, he apparently shot down 13 Japanese fighter planes single handedly as his boat was sinking. After the war, it is said, he challenged “Argentina Bill,” the...
“The greatest problem in performance art is how to include digressions,” playwright and director Richard Foreman wrote in an early manifesto, “which can clarify, while not losing from consciousness the small event that prompted the digression.” Through his...
George Jones died last Friday, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, four months before he was set to begin “The Grand Tour,” a farewell jaunt across 60 cities that was to be the final note of a legendary career. I planned on...
