Last summer his Genius series filled the Paul Kasmin Gallery's walls to tantalizing effect. Over fifty portrait paintings of perverse and disproportionate but oddly alluring children dressed in period aristocratic costume, with flamboyant hairdo's and each casually holding a smouldering cigarette, stared hauntingly through eyes that were as beautiful as...
0 Comments | Posted February 21, 2012 | 1:11 PM
David is not in New York, I was told. He's at home in Hawaii and would like to do a phone interview.
When I dialed David's number 'Shawn' answered. "Hi Annie, would you mind calling back in fifteen minutes? The veterinarian is here. He and David are seeing to the...
0 Comments | Posted February 16, 2012 | 2:50 PM
Hamlet. A play that has been performed countless times since it was written circa 1604, it is the Shakespearean tragedy that every discerning theatre-goer knows and loves.
So, as a theater maker, how do you generate toe-curling drama, excitement and intrigue for an audience whose hitherto experience of Hamlet is...
0 Comments | Posted January 31, 2012 | 11:07 PM
There were moments, last week, when I felt myself staring down that well-oiled barrel of Spot Mania despair. Larry and Damien getting richer, culture getting poorer. The art world often seems like a big game, where no one is quite sure of the rules, but no one wants to be...
0 Comments | Posted December 20, 2011 | 3:22 PM
It is July 11, 2011, 7:10 p.m. in New York City. Between the gigantic steel scaffolding of the Williamsburg Bridge, a young aerialist is hanging off a 20-foot piece of white silky fabric making beautiful shapes in the sky. She guides her body -- an exceptional vessel of strength and...

0 Comments | Posted March 27, 2012 | 8:31 AM