It’s a big city out there. Bwog continues its (fledgling) series of artsy picks to help you navigate the world below Morningside. Orhan Pamuk Pamuk–winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature–is taking time off from his part-time professorial duties to read from his latest, Other Colors: Essays and a Story, a collection of essays […]

The Wikipedia article for The Hold Steady says that Daniel Radcliffe has proclaimed the quintet as his “favourite band.”  He’s in good company; the formerly Twin Cities-based rockers (now the pride of Brooklyn) have reached the apotheosis of indie stardom.  Following the release of their third-life crisis album, Boys and Girls in America, they toured […]

John Zorn Improv Night—A Stone Benefit John Zorn (sax), Ikue Mori (electronics), Ned Rothenberg (sax), Shanir Blumenkranz (bass), Theo Bleckman (voice) and many special guests join forces to raise some funds to protect this home of the avant-garde. Don’t let the Stone become the next Tonic. The Stone, Avenue C at E 2nd street, Sets […]

It’s a big city out there. This week, Bwog begins a new series of artsy picks to help you navigate the world below Morningside.   Neither New nor Correct: Mark Bradford Mark Bradford, recipient of the Bucksbaum Award for truly exceptional work at the 2006 Biennial, now has his own exhibition at the Whitney involving […]

Creativity abounds at the Tablet Arts Fair, taking place at Low Plaza until 4:00 PM! At the “Live Art” table, members of Tablet, Columbia’s multicultural literary and art magazine, are producing their works on the spot for an auction that will be held towards the end of the event. If your suite is lonely, you […]

If you’ve been oblivious to the many attention-grabbing efforts on campus (the chalked stairs in Hamilton are a nice touch), you may not have heard about the SCEG/Postcrypt gallery show going on right now, “Expanding Perspectives: West Harlem,” which opened Friday in the basement of St. Paul’s and features art by both Columbia students and […]

1) Closing at the Lincoln Square 13 today after a mere week in release  – the evocatively titled Blood and Chocolate, making room for what promises to be the best bad movie since Perfume, Factory Girl. Quoth IMDB about Blood: “A young teenage werewolf… is torn between honoring her family’s secret and her love for […]

Once again – it’s time for last chance arts. After this weekend, these things will be gone forever, so take advantage while you still can! (Is it appropriate to apply the expression “carpe diem” to a Renee Zellweger movie?) 1.  Miss Potter closes at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square this weekend to make room for the […]

In which S. Alex Kudroff tells us what makes B&W staffer Will Snider’s play different from all other plays… “Everything Different” is college compressed into 85 minutes. Will Snider manages to capture the essence of a night of drunken mayhem in a dorm suite where conversations roam from love to sex, depression, drugs, revolution, and […]

The cold, barren stairwells of EC aren’t usually the most exciting venue for New York’s artistic avant-garde. Bwog was surprised, then, to find stenciled notes hanging on dueling walls, one between the 6th and 7th and 13th floors of the building and one on the 11th, sporting ironic questionnaires. “Do You Like Me?” one inquires, giving the reader […]

Because images of windswept prairies and lonley gas-stations make for the best modern art, Bwog correspondent Maryam Parhizkar tells us what to expect from the Whitney exhibit Holiday in Reality-Edward Hopper. Last week, I headed to the Whitney for the Edward Hopper show. The exhibition, which takes up the entire fifth floor, is part of the […]

The MoMA has done it again. They’ve brought us another huge, ambitious show, in the vein of last summer’s Cezanne-Pisarro. This time, the subject is Edvard Munch. The show is excellent—it not only rehabilitates the underrated Munch but also sheds new light on the artist. With many little-known works in addition to the greatest hits, […]

Bwog staffer Julia Butareva reviews Ignacy Witkiewicz’s show of contemporary drawings at the Ubu gallery. In the corner of drawings by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, you find letters and numbers assembled in what looks like an obscure mathematical formula: NP, NTT 7 m. What do they mean? Apparently, they’re abbreviations that indicate the drugs that the […]

In which film savant Iggy Cortez gives you something to watch this weekend when you ask the cute girl from CC to your room to “watch a movie.” What Time is it There? is Tsai-Ming Liang’s powerful exploration of loneliness and loss, themes he has explored previously in such modern classics as the bleak The […]

Bwog staffer Kabir Singh reviews the Asia Society’s Rockefeller exhibit. In 1919 Lucy Aldrich wrote to her sister Abby Aldrich Rockefeller from Japan: “I’m not sure I shan’t become a Buddhist…the whole thing appeals so much more to my temperamental—or is it emotional—love of color. The gold and lacquer, the beat of the drums and […]