A new exhibition traces the intersection between images and sounds from the Velvet Underground and beyond
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It’s only rock and art, but they like it
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By Dorothy Spears
THE NEW YORK TIMES
The strobe lights flicker hypnotically and the dancers move robotically when the haunting face of the chanteuse Nico appears in “Exploding Plastic Inevitable,” the 1966 road show of art, music and film organized by Andy Warhol. Amid the Velvet Underground’s droning guitars, Lou Reed’s voice emerges in all its steely grit. Read More
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A station feared that by broadcasting “Howl” it could run afoul of the Federal Communications Commission’s interpretation of indecency and incur bankrupting fines
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‘Howl’ in an era that fears indecency
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By Patricia Cohen
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Those who happened to click on Pacifica.org on Wednesday could hear Allen Ginsberg intoning, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked," along with the rest of his classic poem "Howl." Read More
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‘The shock doctrine’: it’s all a grand capitalist conspiracy
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By Tom Redburn
THE NEW YORK TIMES
When Milton Friedman died last year, the acclaim for his work was nearly universal. Even his ideological opponents, like Paul Krugman and Lawrence Summers, treated this Nobel Prize-winning economist — who taught for decades at the University of Chicago — with respect. Read More
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Expotrastiendas: here and now (and back a century)
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By Marjan Groothuis
FOR THE HERALD
Expotrastiendas, a major art fair held yearly in Buenos Aires, is about to open its doors: on Friday, October 12th at 7 pm it is show time again for nine days in a row. This is the 7th edition of Expotrastiendas and judging by the amount of participants and additional events being organized it seems that this is their lucky number. This fair has surely matured over the years, from quite a modest first presentation in the Centro Cultural Borges to ever more square metres – 10.000 this year — in the Exhibition Centre of the city of Buenos Aires on the corner of Figueroa Alcorta and Pueyrredón avenues. Last year the fair drew well over 60.000 visitors, a figure the organization hopes to surpass this year. Read More
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India’s art now booming and shaking
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By Steven Henry Madoff
THE NEW YORK TIMES
MUMBAI, India
For an uninitiated Westerner, making your way to one of this city's new art galleries can be a disorienting study in contrasts. In the crowded streets behind the Taj Mahal Hotel Palace and Tower, where the air is heavy with the smell of gasoline and flowers, you are approached by women begging for money and food. Men shout invitations to enter their carpet shops or purchase wares like watches, magazines, leather jackets and cigarettes. Read More
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Passing through what we all forgot: a cliché
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By Cole Perry
For the Herald
Haby Bonomo’s Olvidos exhibition of paintings at the Museo Sivori in Rosedal park is fragile. The paintings are sparse with empty spaces and stark horizons, colored in different shades of gray, salt, and cream like Buenos Aires in the spring. Everything about them is passing, half there, and incomplete. This is one of the themes running behind the exhibition — incompletion. The other is indicated by the title: forgetfulness. Against this ephemeral grain there is the romantic principles of the painter himself. The clash between the three results in a contradiction that defines the show. Read More
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