By Natasha Tauber Artists Laurent Boijeot and Sebastien Renauld, together boijeot.renauld, work in “actions,” and their latest is a one month migration through the length of Manhattan, via Broadway. Having started in Harlem and unhurriedly making their way down, the French duo are inhabiting New York City’s public thoroughfare with the wooden tables, chairs and bed they’ve designed. The artists, together with partner Mélanie Heresbach, …
by Natasha Tauber In the live/work space artist Dove Bradshaw shares with her partner of 41 years, artist William Anastasi, every sightline is assembled in deference to her eye and the couple’s evolving artistic harmonies. Dense pockets of books and recordings are points of gravity, in an expansive light-filled upper Manhattan apartment made loft-like by the removal of many of its 1913 walls. In art, …
DICK is at once a provocative party game and a retelling of Herman Melville’s classic novel”Moby-Dick” or, “The Whale.” In a mash-up of literature and lowbrow humor, the game positions direct quotations from Melville’s often-suggestive text against a backdrop of contemporary culture. Players are invited to gather a half-dozen of their bosom friends and jointly plunge their harpoons into the ecstatic flank of delight metaphorically. …
