Nassau Weekly

Arts

  • A Review

    A Review

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    The senior thesis exhibition currently on view in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau is entirely wordless.

  • Arcosanti

    Arcosanti

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    Three years ago, I stared up at the stars in the northern Arizona desert. I felt the smooth concrete of stargazing steps against my back.

  • Stone’s Throw

    Stone’s Throw

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    More Weight (April 26 – June 22, 2014) was Sam Moyer’s first solo exhibition at Rachel Uffner’s new Lower East Side location, her third with the gallery after receiving her MFA from Yale (2007). Works were divided between three rooms. The light-filled entry held a series of 8 large framed glass paintings. The back gallery…

  • Cities on the Move

    Cities on the Move

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    Every suburb is defined by its city. At least, that’s what my southern California suburban experience was defined by, the glowing metropolis over the hills, alluring and enigmatic as Faye Dunaway in “Chinatown.” Los Angeles tells the story of itself through movies, the city’s own artistic lovechild, and the best ones usually take an interest…

  • Portraits of Exploitation

    Portraits of Exploitation

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    Their faces were painted in hurried brushstrokes, slightly off-color, and without many identifying characteristics.

  • Weird Vermeer

    Weird Vermeer

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    When I’m trying to be cool talking about my intersession I tell people I was visiting friends who are doing a gap year in the Capitol (which is technically true), but mostly I was hanging out with my aunt and going to art galleries.

  • FUSE

    FUSE

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    It is an afternoon in early October and the grass on the south lawn of Frist is thick and soft as moss.

  • The Arts Are Indeed in Transition

    The Arts Are Indeed in Transition

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    As we approach Spring semester I wanted to take a moment and respond to “The Arts in Transition,” an article by Andrew Sondern that ran in the Nassau Weekly last term.

  • The Arts in Transition

    The Arts in Transition

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    To Princeton University, it is more important to say that arts are practiced on this campus than to provide support to the student-artists themselves.

  • The Generation X Gap

    The Generation X Gap

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    Douglas Coupland’s exhibit in the Vancouver Art Gallery this summer was called “everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything,” and from the instant I saw the title, before I even set foot in the museum, I was not feeling it. The all-lowercase aesthetic felt, to me, like an appropriation by a pretty square art gallery…

  • The Male Gaze

    The Male Gaze

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    As I sat in the darkness of the Black Box theater, the words of Maude, Julianne Moore’s character in The Big Lebowski, echoed through my head. I did not know what to expect from these mysterious Vagina Monologues. As a man, I was prepared to be confronted, prepared to be unwelcome

  • Stare, Glance, Stare

    Stare, Glance, Stare

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    Eight years ago street artist Banksy disguised himself, entered the British Museum, and put a piece of his own work up on a wall. It was a slab of concrete, on which he had painted a cave figure drawing of a man with a shopping cart. Banksy even added an object label reading that this…