Studio Visit: Conceptual Artist Dove Bradshaw

A look behind some of her stone work currently on show at the Noguchi Museum

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, …

Vulfpeck: Funky Duck

Funk band with a sense of humor Vulfpeck reached internet fame last year with “Sleepify,” an album made up of nothing but silent tracks and released on Spotify. Asking fans to play it on repeat before going to bed, the band ended up making around $19,655 for 5.5 million plays (roughly $0.005 per play) before Spotify removed it after seven weeks; Vulfpeck used the funds …

James Blake: The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel Cover)

“Hello darkness, my old friend / I’ve come to talk with you again”: the iconic lyrics from Simon & Garfunkel’s timeless 1964 hit “The Sound of Silence” are now sung by