You’ve probably seen Robert Polidori’s stark yet sumptuous architectural images in the New Yorker; here’s your chance to view some in their full-scale grandeur. In a brand-new series on view at the Weinstein, the photographer creates gorgeous, masterful, and telling pictures of the new New York. Times Square looks as if the rain Travis Bickle … Read more
The Jerome Foundation and Intermedia Arts have been pushing boundaries for upwards of twenty years with this annual show of installation art; this year, they expand their mission outside the gallery space. In one of five commissioned pieces, the “installation” is the streets and sidewalks of Lyn/Lake, as Sean Kelly-Pegg openly borrows an idea from … Read more
It’s amazing what some people will throw away. While most of us ignore scraps of discarded paper lying on the ground, Davy Rothbart collects them, scans them into his computer, and publishes them in his magazine, Found, and on www.foundmagazine.com. Taken together, the tossed-away and lost scraps become a wonderful showcase of accidental art, offering … Read more
Kats Fukusawa loves to mix things up. The Japanese native first learned dance by watching West Side Story and now has eight years’ experience with Indian dance as part of the local troupe Ragamala. He joyfully interweaves his own work with healthy skeins of other world cultures—Irish, Latin, jazz, whatever strikes his fancy. In Paneer … Read more
One of these days, k.d. lang is going to run out of musical forms to conquer. Her latest success is as a vocalist working with America’s top symphonies; this month, she’ll do a one-night stand with the tuxedoed Minnesota Orchestra, not one of whose members lower-case their initials. After the Orchestra struts its stuff through … Read more
Come for the scat, stay for the ballads. And be taken in by one of the most confident voices in modern jazz singing everything from Brazilian bossa nova to seventies soft rock à la Cat Stevens. While specializing in a Midwestern mix of blues, folk and pop, the versatile Allyson also borrows from genres the … Read more
When the hippest art museum in town throws a concert in a sculpture garden under the summer sun we have only one option: Rejoice. If you’re going through Walker withdrawal, this year’s Rock the Garden street party will be therapeutic as an event where the “without walls” concept is in full effect. For the last … Read more
If Phil Spector could produce the Ramones, why can’t Jack White, garage-rock hero of the White Stripes, take a whack at spinning the studio dials for honky-tonk goddess Loretta Lynn? No good reason at all, and Van Lear Rose, which White both produced and arranged, proves that opposites can indeed attract beautiful music. The most … Read more
Ah, summer! Like the lilacs (but without the nagging allergies), Wilco has blossomed anew from yet another line-up change, after guitarist/keyboardist Leroy Bach left the group on good terms in late January, just after wrapping up recording for A Ghost is Born. The band’s fifth full-length album and follow-up to 2002’s career-defining Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, … Read more
What’s this fuss over Avril Lavigne and the second coming of Alanis Morrisette? PJ Harvey can eat them both for lunch, and have Fiona Apple for dessert. The cover of her seventh album, Uh Huh Her, shows the scrawny but unstoppable seductress in the passenger seat of a car whose pudgy driver obviously doesn’t know … Read more