Piero di Cosimo, Perseus Freeing Andromeda, c. 1510–1515. Oil on panel, Uffizi Galleries, Florence. A Renaissance myth staged like popular theater, with monster, crowd, and wonder folded into the kind of pre-modern storytelling Dafoe’s program brings back into view.
Dafoe’s Biennale program looks at theater’s origins. Read More
Yellow relief by Ellsworth Kelly
Manifesto for a new artistic movement. Read More
Christ's Descent into Hell by Hieronymus Bosch. Fig. 6. Detail of Sisyphus in 26.244. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 613
An examination of artistic commitment, doubt, and the dangers of moral absolutism. Read More
Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller, 1973)
Why Lina Wertmüller’s Love and Anarchy deserves a central place in film history. Read More
A recovered 1973 one-act returns through a downtown reading and a cross-disciplinary cast. Read More
The Mamas & the Papas on ABC's The Song Makers, 1967
An essay on pitch, technology, and the quiet erasure of the human voice. Read More
A gown by Charles James. Photographed by Cecil Beaton.
From silk and rationing to code and looms, textiles as a record of power, labor, and desire. Read More
