David Freedlander is a veteran New York City-based journalist. He writes long-form features about politics and the arts, people and ideas, and has appeared in New York Magazine, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, ArtNews, The Daily Beast, Newsweek and a host of other publications.
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Until it folded in 1973, Barney Rosset’s Evergreen Review mixed erotica and cutting-edge writing with incendiary results. Now it’s back, with literary bad boy Dale Peck in charge.
In January 2014, during the run-up to Super Bowl XLVIII in New Jersey, the real action was taking place across the river in Manhattan, where the city had transformed into a weeklong pregame party. Jay Z, Drake, Kendrick Lamar and the Foo Fighters were headlining nearby concerts, and Times Square had been renamed "Super Bowl Boulevard.
Rob Pruitt was home watching MSNBC on election night when it became clear that the results were not going to go as he imagined they would.
A group booked a Williamsburg gallery for a political art show. But when it turned out to be pro-Trump, the gallery canceled. Censorship? Well, it’s complicated.
The famous apartment complex entrance has been recreated in Chelsea as the gateway to an exhibition of the show’s covertly political art.
Bathers at the beach, a newspaper being swept along a city street, a puddle lying dark and inert on a sidewalk at night: A new exhibit reveals how the great photographer found inspiration in the Big Apple.
It’s a shame that Hollywood made such a hash of their one attempt to render Diane Arbus on screen. Her life begs for a biopic.
If Duke Riley never brought ink to paper, never went to art school, and never signed with a Chelsea gallery, he would still be known as one of the reigning outlaw party-throwers and provocateurs in New York.
