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The article discusses the Poetry Project, a nonprofit organization that has been promoting experimental poetry and performance for over 50 years. Recently, the organization showed solidarity with Palestine by signing on with the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. The article emphasizes the importance of cultural institutions like the Poetry Project in challenging cultural norms and addressing moral crises. It also provides a brief history of the Poetry Project, which began in a church in New York City and has since become a central meeting place for poets and artists. The project has evolved over the years, hosting events such as the annual New Year's Day Marathon, and remains committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive community of poets and artists. [Extracted from the article]

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the life and career of musician Lou Reed, with a particular focus on his time with the band the Velvet Underground. It discusses Reed's unique musical style, combining drones and traditional song form, as well as his direct and straightforward lyrics. The article also touches on Reed's relationships, including his connection with Andy Warhol and his troubled partnership with Rachel Humphreys. It acknowledges Reed's struggles with addiction and the impact it had on his personal and professional life. Despite his contentious relationship with journalists, Reed's talent and success as a musician were undeniable. [Extracted from the article]

'I ONLY HAVE ONE TRICK,' Eliane Radigue told me a few years ago. 'It is the cross-fade!' She pulled her fingers apart as if stretching taffy and laughed. She was [...]

'FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH FORGOTTEN,' at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art through January, is the first museum exhibition attempting to corral the work of Harry Smith, and it [...]

WRITING ABOUT JOHN ZORN and his music feels like an act of cartography as much as an opportunity for critique. Zorn's recorded appearances in the past forty-odd years--as improviser, composer, [...]

WE MUST FORGIVE OTHERS for the terrible things they do, especially when love takes them to the brink. If you have never heard the first Neu! album, you might find [...]

LEONARD COHEN SPENT HIS ENTIRE professional life impressing everyone but himself. He was a Canadian poet who ended up writing a standard of the American songbook that his own record [...]

In the work of Key Hiraga (1936-2000), which slid from black line drawings into barking Day-Glo paintings, the human body is the key. Hiraga, who was raised outside of Tokyo, [...]

The article presents the author's views on a new way of thinking about how people listen to music, together or alone, and her alliterative schema for the various listening environments is a corner, club, cathedral, and cocoon. She mentions that audiophiles often talk about what people will miss if they do not have a specific kind of gear as if recorded music were a fragile code requiring elaborate reconstruction.

Where does a Nobel Prize winner do his best work? In a custom milt London study, of course. For nearly 40 years Kazuo Ishiguro has been writing novels that deal, [...]

Marlon Mullen begins by painting words, performing an act that neither comes from nor returns to reading. The artist has autistic spectrum disorder and suffers from expressive aphasia; he rarely [...]

The New York-based Norwegian artist Tiril Hasselknippe channeled the apocalyptic doom that pervades our awful present in 'Braut' (Bride), her solo exhibition at Magenta Plains. Two hulking sculptures--which looked like [...]

The article focuses on artist Éliane Radigue who is creating new work in close collaboration with musicians.

CORRECTION APPENDED ST. MARKS IS DEAD The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street By Ada Calhoun Illustrated. 414 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $27.95. New York breeds mourners. If you [...]

There is a cliche about Tom Waits, or, as he described it to me, an 'oversimplification.' In his words, the received version is that he 'growls about booze and gargles [...]

'MAD' ASSEMBLY ROOM 'MAD,' a group exhibition at Assembly Room that featured the work of women artists, cohered around anger, or at least the idea of it. Per Angela Conant, [...]

David Hockney and James Scott ANITA ROGERS GALLERY In 1966, only four years out of the Royal College of Art in London, David Hockney was already a star. James Scott, [...]

Hudson Yards, a controversial $25 billion real estate development along the Hudson River in New York, is already home to new tenants like Wells Fargo and CNN. The clutch of [...]

In Aura Satz's numinous exhibition 'Listen, Recalibrate' at Fridman Gallery, pieces exploring generations of sound-making women--such as Delia Derbyshire, Pauline Oliveros, and Eliane Radigue--resonated profoundly, while elsewhere in the show [...]

IN 1986, DREW VOGELMAN, A DRUMMER and an engineer, opened his first studio, Dessau Recording, in Manhattan. (It closed in 1999.) Twenty-five years later, when his son, Lucas, wanted to [...]

HOW LONG did an hour feel in 1971? Was it like three 2018 hours? Ten minutes? The music of the eighty-six-year-old French composer Eliane Radigue forces these questions because as [...]

Near the northern border of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, at the corner of Myrtle and Adelphi, there is a grocery store called Farmer in the Deli, which is open all day [...]

Byline: BY SASHA FRERE-JONES SISTER SAVIORS Sleater-Kinney returns. In December, 2011, Carrie Brownstein was sitting on Corin Tucker's couch, in Portland, Oregon. Once bandmates in an indie-rock group called Sleater-Kinney, [...]

Remembering Buzzcocks co-founder and lead singer Pete Shelley, who died Dec. 6 at age 63. Punk liberated Pete Shelley before most people knew they needed either punk or liberation. In [...]

Richard BernsteinJEFFREY DEITCHRegime change is never good for the court painter. And shortly after Andy Warhol died, Richard Bernstein lost his gig as the artist for Interview magazine covers. (Four [...]

SOMEBODY WITH A LITTLE HAMMER BY MARY GAITSKILL NEW YORK: PANTHEON. 288 PAGES. $26. Mary Gaitskill's nonfiction differs from her fiction not in quality--the essays in Somebody with a Little [...]

Byline: BY SASHA FRERE-JONES AMBIENT GENIUS The working life of Brian Eno. In January, 1975, the musician Brian Eno and the painter Peter Schmidt released a set of flash cards [...]

DOUBLE HELIX The two sides of Arto Lindsay. New York is the city that lives on the power of those who aren't from New York, which makes Arto Lindsay a [...]

RELAXED FIT Sharon Van Etten's basic tools. Sharon Van Etten is a bright-eyed, compact, outgoing woman. But the songs on her astonishing new album, 'Are We There,' are hardly sparkly-they [...]

IMPROV EVERYWHERE EMA flirts with chaos. Erika M. Anderson, who records as EMA, grew up in South Dakota. Her great-great-grandparents, dairy farmers who emigrated from Scandinavia to the Midwest, probably [...]

SNEAK PEAK St. Vincent's stealthy magnificence. Annie Clark, who performs under the name St. Vincent, is a musician who arrived fully formed. Her début album, 'Marry Me' (2007), showed her [...]

SAHARA BLUES Tinariwen's desert sound. The music of Tinariwen, a Tuareg band whose members live in the Sahara Desert region that spreads across parts of Mali, Algeria, and Libya, is [...]

A NEW VOICE Beck puts it all together. Beck has often used indirection to his advantage. In his roughly twenty-five-year career, he has made so many costume changes that nobody [...]

LEND ME YOUR EARS Ariel Rechtshaid and the art of production. Ariel Rechtshaid, a wiry thirty-four-year-old producer who has been nominated for a Grammy as Producer of the Year, has [...]

SMOOTH OPERATOR Devonté Hynes's elegant R. & B. For Devonté Hynes, 2013 was either the best year ever or the worst, depending on what's more important, success or possessions. In [...]

BRIT POP BY SASHA FRERE-JONES Britney Spears gets into the club. Spears has responded to the new crop of pop stars by embracing electronic dance music. When Forbes writes that [...]

FEATURES New York is not the birthplace of jazz but rather its town square, where discipline is sharpened and lessons are taught. "In the 1920s musicians played outdoors as much as they played indoors", Branford says. Branford's younger brother Wynton, the managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, puts together groups on a daily basis. [Extracted from the article]

This exhibition was a model of concision, an intensely pleasurable summary of the knotty moment in art history when a bunch of French artists got it into their heads to [...]

SHADY AND THE LADY BY SASHA FRERE-JONES Eminem and M.I.A. battle desires and doubts. Though M.I.A. and Eminem are stylistically worlds apart, they share a sincere desire to upend expectations. [...]

THE KATY SHOW BY SASHA FRERE-JONES Katy Perry's variety act. Cheerful and competent, Perry favors a look like that of a fifties bombshell. Katy Perry has become one of the [...]

Carolan, center, with two of his artists, the Haxan Cloak and Evian Christ. THE DARK LORD BY SASHA FRERE-JONES Robin Carolan's Tri Angle record label. The Tri Angle record label, [...]

ROYALTIES BY SASHA FRERE-JONES Lorde's bid for the big time. Lorde's hit, 'Royals,' combines fast-lane references with directness about privation. The New Zealand singer Ella Yelich-O'Connor's first show in the [...]

Archy Marshall turned nineteen last month, but he has already received the kind of attention most musicians never receive in a lifetime. In July, Beyoncé posted one of his songs [...]

Earl Sweatshirt, a nineteen-year-old m.c., is one of the most notable members of the Odd Future hip-hop collective, a loose alliance based in Los Angeles, who began releasing music for [...]

In Europe, summer is festival season. In the current pop landscape, where live music is the only reliable source of profit, the touring circuit offers bands a chance to traverse [...]

Hard rock is not what springs to mind when you think of oppressed groups, but throughout its history, despite its popularity, it has received a great deal of dismissive criticism, [...]

Why are so many people fond of being mad at Kanye West? Is it his lack of control, his self-absorption, his boastfulness? Complaining about a surfeit of ego in a [...]

BACK TO EARTH Daft Punk's puzzling new album. In 1993, when the French duo Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo released their first record, as members of the rock band [...]

Savages is a four-piece band from London that formed in late 2011 and released its first single in June, 2012; before it had put out even one album the band [...]