Copyright 2008 The New York Sun Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:40:03 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Kolby Yarnell :: Stories from The New York Sun http://www.nysun.com/authors/Kolby+Yarnell istoll@nysun.com (Ira Stoll) webmaster@nysun.com en-us KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/three-young-folkies-take-a-step-forward/63324/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST Devendra Banhart, Iron and Wine, and José González have more in common than new albums that come out today and New York City shows scheduled for later this week. There is that earthy musical personality to these troubadours and their guitars, who spread their love and peace through freaky or dreamy folk music. But side by side, even as two of the three move into new territory, with full bands and fuller productions, their similarities are dwarfed by differences. Mr. Banhart's "Smokey Rolls Down... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/barretts-rabbit-hole/62851/ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST When Syd Barrett, co-founder of British psychedelic pioneers Pink Floyd, passed away last year at 60, many around the world, even many who love his music, had to admit that they weren't aware he had made it that long. Barrett's music career had already been over for 30 years, the victim of a drug-fueled mental collapse that serves today as a rock 'n' roll cautionary tale. But that is not all that endures. Owing to his breathtaking originality, and at times his unmitigated musical genius... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/twilight-days-of-a-supergroup/60943/ Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST From the first track of "Challengers" (Matador), the New Pornographers seem determined to undermine the "supergroup" image (and sound) that has followed them since their 2000 debut. With the wispy, delicate opener, "My Right Versus Yours," the band sets a new tone and sounds eager to re-examine the formula of its past success — and this time with a touch of French horn. One way to do that is to showcase the talents of the individual members rather than craft songs as a unit. That it took four... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/less-is-more-for-nastasia-white/60728/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST For the past eight years, New York singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia has been making music at once emotive and understated. Delivered with a flat, talky indifference, lines about ghostly deaths and mundane domestic hopes are fused together into a sinister folk reality. In her latest effort, "You Follow Me" (Fat Cat), a collaboration with the Australian drummer Jim White, Ms. Nastasia eschews her familiar cellos and pianos, as well as the style of affected understatement, to deliver a rich... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/off-the-shoulders-of-giants/58127/ Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST Interpol's third album, "Our Love To Admire" (Capitol), its first for a major label, goes on sale today and looks ripe for commercial success. The consistency of the band's songs, with their soaring guitars, esoteric lyrics, and brooding atmospheres, have made this band a model of resilience among those New York acts to emerge around the turn of the millennium. Here we find the distinctive sound polished to a pop glimmer, with more hooks than ever before. But if Interpol, which rehabilitated... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/feist-puts-new-songs-to-test/56311/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST The hype that has built up around the singer-songwriter Leslie Feist has been hard to avoid and, for that reason, perhaps a little hard to swallow. Her third album, "The Reminder," was released in April to rapturous praise, and now the Canadian-born musician, who goes by only her last name, is back on tour. Tonight and tomorrow night she brings her lovely moods to Webster Hall. "The Reminder" is Feist's breakthrough. Unlike her 2005 album, "Let It Die," half of which consisted of well-owned... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/looking-back-with-the-sea-and-cake/56037/ Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST "We have in a weird way encapsulated our entire career," Sea and Cake frontman Sam Prekop says of the band's seventh album, "Everybody." Released last month after a four-year layoff for the band, "Everybody" ranks among the group's best, and Mr. Prekop is determined to capitalize on its current focus. In sticking so close to its trademark fizzled sound — funky bass lines, shimmering guitars, jazzy drumming — the Sea and Cake's new record is like a reduction of the group's best ideas, carefully... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/thompsons-humor-sees-him-through/55451/ Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:00 EST Richard Thompson is one of the finest songwriters of his generation. Four decades and more than two dozen albums into his career, the 58-year-old British guitarist remains as creative — and surprisingly little known — as ever. With his ex-wife Linda, Mr. Thompson released six astonishing albums during the 1970s and early '80s, but the musical and romantic partnership famously ended in 1982 with a masterpiece, "Shoot Out the Lights." Linda lost her voice, but Richard kept turning out the songs... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/brooklyn-rockers-go-pugilist/54971/ Tue, 22 May 2007 00:00:00 EST Embracing the Brooklyn spirit of communal creativity, musical nomad Sufjan Stevens is one of several "neighbors" who appear on the National's latest album. Even on tracks without his musical accompaniment, however, there is no hesitation to embrace his brand of musical nerdiness. The first song, "Fake Empire," a ballad in the style of Leonard Cohen or Nick Cave, ends with a flurry of overlapping horn blasts that are trademarks of Mr. Stevens's sound. But overall, "Boxer" (Beggars Banquet), the... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/snapshots-of-one-place-100-times/54661/ Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 EST In reproduction, Barry Frydlender's pictures resemble simple snapshots. Each picture is sharply focused, and the compositions appear awkward, even at times unconsidered. In person, however, they show themselves to be impossible snapshots. Trained as a photojournalist, Mr. Frydlender has reinvented himself and his medium for a more artistic practice. The exhibit of 10 recent works that goes on view at the Museum of Modern Art today, "Barry Frydlender: Place and Time," coincides with a... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/blonde-taste-test/53927/ Mon, 7 May 2007 00:00:00 EST There's something essentially teenage about Blonde Redhead's music. But that's not a criticism of the trio, which has, for more than 15 years, rolled out a steady stream of albums, each differing from the previous in fascinating ways and always retaining a kind of youthful moodiness. The new songs Blonde Redhead brings to Webster Hall tomorrow night, having just released their seventh album, "23" (4AD), rank as the band's most polished dream pop yet, evoking comparisons to such 1990s mainstays... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/few-bad-seeds-spawn-a-new-sound/52116/ Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST Nick Cave's music is getting interesting again. For more than 20 years, the Australian has been singing dark ballads about murder and love with his band the Bad Seeds. Having reached a near perfection of this style on recent albums, notably 2001's "No More Shall We Part" and 2004's "Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus," Mr. Cave's new project, Grinderman, is intent to channel the rowdiness of a younger self and make a departure from his well-worn creative process. At the same time, he's... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/lenfant-and-the-pride-of-the-potomac/48590/ Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST The rescue of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French architect who designed Washington, D.C., from obscure infamy began in 1900, 75 years after his death. At a meeting of the American Institute of Architects, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., son to the great savior of New York's urban landscape, presented L'Enfant's original vision for the city to a group of men who had convened to discuss the capital's lack of any organized urban unity. L'Enfant's original plan, they immediately realized, was quite... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/williams-goes-west/48530/ Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST Lucinda Williams's new album, "West," (Lost Highway) is a collection of moody, melancholic songs about loss. The subject isn't new for her, but the handling certainly is. Written in the wake of her mother's death and a relationship that ended in tears, Ms. Williams registers the changes of her life and emerges with a strong collection of sounds and lyrics, but an imperfect album as a whole. Over the course of "West," the expression of loss becomes repetitive. Ms. Williams tries to color every... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/louder-clap-of-thunder/47433/ Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST Instant hype often does more to hurt a band than to help. One of the unavoidable indie-rock successes of the last couple of years is the Brooklyn-via-Philadelphia quintet Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. When their hook-laden, self-released debut caught widespread attention in the summer of 2005, it became a rare instance of the press following Internet hype to cover something they'd altogether missed. Despite its quick rise, the band has chosen to keep faith in its grassroots methods. Though CYHSY's... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/old-folkie-gets-a-second-chance/47021/ Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST Gary Higgins is grateful. His only album, the 1973 psychedelicfolk record "Red Hash," which for more than three decades was often spoken of but rarely heard due to small pressing and nonexistent distribution, was reissued on CD by the Chicago-based label Drag City in 2005. Now he's planning another album and playing gigs. "Red Hash" lived up to its legend upon reissue, and the attention Higgins has since received has been unlike anything he and his friends imagined when they hastily recorded... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/how-low-can-they-go/44864/ Fri, 8 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, the Duluth, Minn., couple at the core of the band Low, put on Wednesday night what was undoubtedly one of the most entertaining Christmas concerts that's ever happened to the Bowery Ballroom. If the audience departed happily into the night full of holiday spirit, they did so thanks to a band known for making very slow and sad music. Currently on a short tour to showcase music from their forthcoming eighth album, "Drums & Guns," which is set for a March 20... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/label-showcases-offer-safe-variety/42579/ Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST The most popular acts at this year's CMJ Music Marathon — such as Tapes 'n' Tapes on Wednesday at Bowery Ballroom or the Decemberists on Friday at Hammerstein Ballroom — do not lend themselves as fully to CMJ's "new music first" ethos, so you may be better off heartily embracing the unfamiliar on offer, visiting venues you've rarely (if ever) been to, and seeing bands whose songs you can't sing. Of course, exclusively seeing bands you've never heard of doesn't promise to be much more fun than... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/jansch-boards-the-new-folk-express/41784/ Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST To American ears, modern British folk music can sound archaic. In lyric, it more often resembles the songs of the Great Depression that were unearthed and released by American folk archivist Harry Smith in the 1950s than it does the protest songs that Smith's anthology eventually inspired in bars throughout Greenwich Village. How appropriate, then, that while Bob Dylan and others married Woody Guthrie to Pete Seeger, England's Bert Jansch was looking to those same English and Celtic influences... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/what-to-see-this-week-2006-02-13/27462/ Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 EST AUTUMN DEFENSE Opening with the line "Why am I so sad?" on the 2003 album "Circles," Autumn Defense writes melancholic, blatantly retro 1960s and '70s rock songs. Using horn and string backing and voice harmonizing, the band manages to achieve just what it strives for, which is likeable enough. The side project of Wilco's John Stirratt and Pat Sansone will play material from its forthcoming album. Wednesday at the Living Room (154 Ludlow Street, 212-533-7235) and Thursday at Pete's Candy Store... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/what-to-see-this-week-2005-12-12/24317/ Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST John Zorn, Arto Lindsay & Anton Fier New York percussionist Anton Fier founded legendary band/collective the Golden Palominos in 1981. The original lineup of Fier, Arto Lindsay, John Zorn, Bill Laswell, and Fred Frith set the creative tone for all that would follow, and all of these musicians went on to ambitious and important careers, mostly in improvisation. Over the decade and a half that the Palominos existed, Fier had many other collaborators, including such people as John Lydon (Sex... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/what-to-see-this-week-2005-11-29/23648/ Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST Patti Smith To celebrate the 30th anniversary of her classic debut, Patti Smith and her band (Lenny Kaye, Jay Dee Daugherty, Tony Shanahan, and Tom Verlaine), along with special guest Flea, will perform the entirety of "Horses." Wednesday and Thursday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (30 Lafayette Avenue, 718-636-4100). Lady Sovereign This 19-year-old white girl had everyone convinced she was a tough, sardonic grime princess until she went and signed with Jay-Z's Island/Def Jam label for her... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/twilight-music/21291/ Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EST About halfway through the new Dirty Three album, something surprising happens: A woman sings. It's not just any woman but Chan Marshall of Cat Power; it's surprising because since 1992, the Australian trio has used the same formula to craft raw yet lyrical indie-rock songs, and that formula has never included vocals. For the past few years, the Dirty Three have been struggling with a common problem: how to follow up a great album. With 1998's "Ocean Songs" they perfected their format of... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/what-to-see-this-week-2005-10-11/21292/ Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EST Yura Yura Teikoku and Excepter Though Yura Yura Teikoku have been around since 1989, the band remains largely unknown outside their native Japan; just a few of the group's albums are available here, and only as expensive imports. That's a shame: This trio makes swanky pop music that's straight ahead in all the right places, with psychedelic undertones. Appearing with them is the spaced-out Brooklyn band Excepter, part of Brooklyn's art-folk scene (think Black Dice and Animal Collective). Headed... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/what-to-see-this-week-2005-10-04/20956/ Tue, 4 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EST NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY Guitar stylist Neil Hagerty has been working solo for five years, but he's best-known for his partnership with ex-wife Jennifer Herrema in Royal Trux. The duo of drug-hungry misfits formed the band after Hagerty's departure from the Jon Spencer-led outfit Pussy Galore, and they made music they knew would piss off Spencer's fans: With unmistakable sarcasm, they brought ax-grinding 1970s classic-rock solos to puerile melodies. Even during their most straightforward Virgin... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/what-to-see-this-week-2005-09-27/20601/ Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EST TONY CONRAD Since helping to create the legendary minimalist drone sound of "Dream Music" in the 1960s, violinist Tony Conrad has continued to collaborate (Faust, Jim O'Rourke) and pioneer. Tonight he performs a new composition for violin at Tonic (107 Norfolk Street, 866-468-7619). DEERHOOF This San Francisco band has been perfecting its mix of Satomi Matsuzaki's dulcet vocals with noisy, arrhythmic drums and drones for 10 years. Their eighth full-length album, "The Runners Four" (Kill Rock... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/what-to-see-this-week-2005-09-06/19580/ Tue, 6 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EST Merzbow Legendary Japanese noise musician Masami Akita has released more than 100 recordings as Merzbow over the last two decades, most of which would be indistinguishable from one another to the casual listener. That's why Merzbow has no casual listeners, only devotees. Over the years, the noise guru has traded in his handmade instruments for electronic guitars, and his electric guitars for the digital bliss of laptop production. Several good acts will open the night, including one by Merzbow... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/what-to-see-this-week-2005-08-30/19329/ Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:00:00 EST AMERICAN ANALOG SET This Austin-based quintet has compiled a varied catalog of ambient and energetic rock. Their latest album, 'Set Free,' due out next month from Arts&Crafts, is being called their best yet by far. Tonight at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street, 212-254-1263). WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A BAT? Cyber-punk trio led by experimental musicians Kitty Brazelton, Dafna Naphtali, and Danny Tunick. First performance in NYC since 2003. Tonight at the Stone (corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/feel-the-noise/18632/ Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:00:00 EST Sufjan Stevens is a really nice guy. That, at least, is the attitude that permeates his music, which romanticizes the struggles of the workingman in sounds and words designed to appeal to the young and sensitive. His latest album, "Come on Feel the Illinoise" (Asthmatic Kitty) is the second installment of the Brooklyn-based songwriter's quixotic 50 states project, which began two years ago with the release of "Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State," and will presumably continue until... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/scoping-out-the-hamptons-art-scene/16975/ Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EST The Scope Art Fair Inc. has held fairs in New York, Miami, London, Paris, and Los Angeles over the past few years. Tomorrow it will launch its latest incarnation in the summery oasis that is the Hamptons. Scope, founded by three employees of the Chelsea gallery Rare, has ridden on the wave of new international art fairs like Art Basel that have carved out a powerful niche in the market, increasing the opportunities and venues for the showing and selling of contemporary art. Summer is a slow... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/new-editor-at-university-bookman/16265/ Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EST The University Bookman, a review of books founded by Russell Kirk in 1960, has named Gerald Russello as its new editor. A lawyer who lives and works in New York City, Mr. Russello hopes to publish his first issue by the end of the year. The former editor, Jeffrey Nelson, will stay on as publisher. Mr. Russello recently finished a study of Kirk's work, which he began 10 years ago. He first wrote for the University Bookman in 1992. It wasn't until 1995, when he was in law school, that Mr... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/arts-desk-2005-06-15/15471/ Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EST KISLAK FELLOWSHIP AWARDED The Library of Congress has named John B. Carlson as its first post-doctoral Kislak Fellow. Director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy in College Park, Md., Mr. Carlson will be working at the Library for eight months, conducting research in the culture and history of the Americas. Mr. Carlson plans to examine the ancient Mayan ceramic bottles and miniature vessels in the Jay I. Kislak Collection - a repository of books, manuscripts, historic documents, maps, and art... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/montale-mystery/14240/ Mon, 23 May 2005 00:00:00 EST A nice little book from Handsel Press has just crossed our desk: "Montale in English," edited by Harry Thomas. It's a slim compendium of translations and homages - often providing several translations of one poem - by many of the usual, and best, suspects: William Arrowsmith, Jonathan Galassi, Charles Wright, Allen Mandelbaum. Few things could be better than more Eugenio Montale in English, and looking through the new volume brought to mind that W.W. Norton hasn't published any new volumes of... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/beard-award-winners/13304/ Wed, 4 May 2005 00:00:00 EST The annual James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards for food and beverage writers have been announced. Winners in the categories of magazine feature writing are Miles Chapin for a piece in Saveur, Julie Powell for a piece in Archaeology, James Lawrence for a piece in EatingWell, and Alan Richman for articles in GQ. The magazine column award went to Lettie Teague for her work in Food & Wine. The award for magazine writing on spirits, wine, or beer went to Natalie MacLean for her work in the... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/arts-desk-2005-05-02/13159/ Mon, 2 May 2005 00:00:00 EST TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS The Tribeca Film Festival has announced the winners of its fourth annual film competition. This year's festival included more than 250 films from 45 countries on six continents. For Best Made in New York Narrative Feature : "Red Doors" by Georgia Lee. Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature: "Stolen Life" ("Sheng Si Jie") by Chinese director Li Shaohong. For Best Documentary Feature: "El Perro Negro: Stories From the Spanish Civil War," by Dutch-Hungarian director... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/arts-desk-2005-04-14/12261/ Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:00:00 EST NATIONAL ACADEMY NAMES NEW MEMBERS The National Academy, the oldest artists association in the United States, has announced the names of the 14 new members. They are: Stephen Antonakos, sculptor; Ben Aronson, painter; Lee Bontecou, sculptor; Vija Celmins, artist; Lesley Dill, sculptor; Charles Gwathmey, architect; Howard Kalish, sculptor; David Kapp, painter; Whitfield Lovell, painter; Robert Mangold, painter; Lorraine Shemesh, painter; Nancy Spero, painter; Bartholomew Voorsanger, architect... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/arts-desk-2005-04-11/12030/ Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:00:00 EST GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION FELLOWS The Guggenheim Foundation has announced the recipients of its United States and Canada Fellowship Awards for 2005. The winners include 186 artists, scholars, and scientists for awards totaling $7,112,000. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future achievement. Decisions are based on recommendations from hundreds of advisers and are approved by the Foundation's board of trustees. These... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/arts-desk-2005-03-28/11254/ Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST NOTES Chris Abani has won the 2005 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for "Graceland" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The late Mary Hemingway, fourth wife of Ernest Hemingway, founded the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 1976 to honor her husband and draw attention to first books of fiction. ... Authors Kevin Goodan, Swanee Hunt, and Edward J. Delaney have been named recipients of the 2005 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, given annually to an author from... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/arts-desk-2005-03-24/11110/ Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST PEN/FAULKNER TO HA JIN Ha Jin's novel "War Trash" (Pantheon) was selected yesterday as the winner of the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Mr. Jin will receive $15,000.The four finalists - Jerome Charyn for "The Green Lantern" (Thunder's Mouth Press), Edwidge Danticat for "The Dew Breaker" (Knopf), Marilynne Robinson for "Gilead" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Steve Yarbrough for "Prisoners of War" (Alfred A. Knopf) - will receive $5,000 each. Mr. Jin lives in the Boston area and is a... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/spring-guide/spring-tuning/11030/ Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST March is a tough month in New York, as Mother Nature is ever-determined to stifle our anticipations of spring by reminding us, with icy rebuke, that this is still winter. To get through these cold, wet days, I think of the first sun-drenched, 60-degree bike ride that, I tell myself, is just around the corner. If your bike has been collecting dust in a closet or basement since late fall - or even since the late 1970s - you should have it tuned up before taking it out for the first time, lest a... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/arts-desk-2005-03-21/10885/ Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST CHRISTIE'S TO OPEN IN DUBAI The London-based auction house Christie's announced that it will open a branch in Dubai next month, making it the first international auction house to have an office in the Middle East. Lydia Limerick has been appointed Christie's representative to the Middle East and will be responsible for developing the house's presence and reputation in the region. Ms. Limerick, who has been based in Dubai since 2001, will be able to provide access to art experts, and information... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/arts-desk-2005-03-16/10681/ Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST JUDITH ROTHSCHILD GRANTS The Judith Rothschild Foundation has announced its 2005 grant awards totaling more than $260,000. The New York recipients are: the Harlem Hospital Center, $10,000 toward the relocation and restoration of Charles H. Alston's 1940 murals "Magic in Medicine" and "Modern Medicine" and $10,000 toward the relocation and restoration of the 1936 mural by Alfred d. Crimi, "Modern Surgery and Anesthesia"; the Aperture Foundation, $15,000 for "Esther Bubley: On Assignment," a... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/arts-desk-2005-03-14/10536/ Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST BIOGRAPHY OR HISTORY? The famous equestrian portrait of 14th-century soldier of fortune John Hawkwood, painted by Paolo Uccello, lives in the cathedral in Florence - the republic that most often employed him as a condottiere, or leader of a band of mercenary soldiers, in the incessant wars that engulfed Italy at that time. Yet the editors at Fourth Estate, an imprint of the publisher Harper-Collins, are apparently concerned that American readers haven't heard of him; or, perhaps, that they... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/smalls-reopens/10178/ Mon, 7 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST The beloved West Village jazz club, Smalls, which closed in the spring of 2003, re-opened this past weekend in its original basement location at 183 W. 10th Street. At the time of its closing, owner Mitch Borden told the New York Sun that he "never wanted to make a business out of Smalls" and just wanted to "scrape by, pay the bills, [and] create an otherworldly jazz club." But the loyalty of Smalls fans, who have been showing up each night for the past 18 months to hear jazz, persuaded the new... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/star-search/9974/ Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST New York dealer Jeffrey Deitch, known for turning hip, young, attractive artists into art-world celebrities, held an open call Monday for "Artstar," a reality-based television show about making it in the New York art world. Painters, performers, video artists, and photographers from as far away as Montana, California, Florida, Washington, and Texas showed up in SoHo to get their shot at art stardom. Deitch Projects and production company Aboriginal Entertainment have partnered to make the show... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/arts-desk-2005-02-28/9821/ Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST BROWN STUDENT WINS WALTER READE TRAILER CONTEST Chris Smith of Brown University has won the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Student Trailer Competition. In addition to having his trailer shown before every Film Society screening for the next two years, Mr. Smith will receive a check for $5,000 and a trip to New York City for the trailer's premiere. His entry was selected following a nationwide competition open to all enrolled college students. NOTES The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard... KOLBY YARNELL http://www.nysun.com/arts/court-rejects-2-columbus-circle-appeal/9755/ Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the city regarding the sale of 2 Columbus Circle, the white marble building, formerly the Huntington Hartford Museum, designed by Edward Durrell Stone. Since 2003, Landmark West and other preservation groups have been battling the city in court over the Landmarks Department's decision not to give 2 Columbus Circle landmark designation. Preservation groups had argued that the city inappropriately concluded that the... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/new-academy-of-arts-letters-members-named/9542/ Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST Landscape architect Laurie Olin; architects Maya Lin, James Stewart Polshek; artists Kiki Smith and Cindy Sherman; playwright Tony Kushner; poet Rosanna Warren; and composer T.J. Anderson have all been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Every year the academy elects new members to fill vacancies left by artists, composers, poets, and architects who have passed away during the previous year. This year those elected to the 250-member organization remain members for... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/arts-desk-2005-02-07/8849/ Mon, 7 Feb 2005 00:00:00 EST JOHNSON'S GENEROSITY Philip Johnson, who died last month, was the first curator of architecture and design for the Museum of Modern Art. Now in his honor the museum has installed four artworks that Johnson gave to the museum over the years. In the lobby is Andy Warhol's "S&H Green Stamps" (1962), given to the museum in 1998; in the atrium are Mark Rothko's "No. 10" (1950), which Johnson gave to MoMA in 1952,and two works by Willem de Kooning, "Untitled V" (1982) and "Untitled XIX" (1977)... Kolby Yarnell http://www.nysun.com/arts/arts-desk-2005-01-31/8505/ Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST MUSEUM OF MOVING IMAGE ABBREVIATES The American Museum of the Moving Image has announced that it is now, simply, Museum of the Moving Image. It had also introduced a new logo, meant to evoke the shape of an old-fashioned movie projector. But the name isn't the only change. On February 10 the museum will unveil plans for renovation of its building in Astoria, for which it has hired architect Thomas Leeser. Part of this expansion will include adding gadgets to the interior that allow images to...