Results tagged “matthewbarney”

(directed by Alison Chernick)

, set aboard the whaling ship Nisshin Maru in Japan's Nagasaki Bay, he's paired up with the musician Björk who composed the score and also appears in the film with Barney.

there's an exit to Murray Street past Chambers!"). But we found a recent discussion about car clutches interesting:

Question: I have a 1988 Honda Civic with a five-speed manual transmission. The mileage on the car is 75,000 -- all short trips in New York City. A mechanic told me that I need to replace the clutch. I have my doubts, so how can I tell if I do need a new clutch? - William

Continue reading "Clutch Time for City Cars"

The Skyscraper Museum asked one hundred architects, brokers, builders, critics, developers, engineers, historians, lawyers, officials, owners, planners and scholars what their ten favorite NYC skyscrapers were from a list of buildings (which did not include the World Trade Center). The NY Times looks at the results, which are a great shorthand of the must-sees in the city. The top ten are Chrysler Building (with the most votes), Seagram, Flatiron, Woolworth, Empire State, Lever House, RCA, McGraw-Hill, U.N. Secretariat, and CBS. Reporter David Dunlap notes the Chrysler Building's "ebullient eccentricity" as being the best at "expressing New York's cloud-piercing ambitions" and calls the runner-up, the Seagram Building, the Chrysler's "anthithesis" as the Seagram is "cool, tranquil, rectangular and restrained."

In honor of the Chrysler Building's 75th birthday this spring, the NY Times ran this awesome Op-Art piece by James Stevenson that explained some of the building's beginnings. Stevenson did this an illustration of Brooklyn-born, Pratt-educated Chrysler Building architect William Van Alen wearing a Chrysler Building costume, noting that he looked "uncomfortable and forlorn," "more Pagliacci than skyscraper," and Gothamist decided to hunt down the actual photograph. And, in fact, Van Alen, who was never paid by William Chrysler for the design and who ended up dying without another major commission, does look out of sorts. But it is the most awesome costume we've ever seen. And it's weird to think that the Chrsyler Building was derided by critics when completed, since it's probably a favorite of many New Yorkers.

Bjork's new look: Do we attribute it to her usual lovable nuttiness or can we say it's Matthew Barney? A close-up black and white shot of Bjork's new bowl cut, which Kelefa Sanneh called "fetching."

Matthew Barney's crazy contribution to art and film, The Cremaster Cycle, premieres in Los Angeles this week. The L.A. Times interviews him and points out:

The Matthew Barney show. At the Guggenheim. Go. Michael Kimmelman loves it but that shouldn't stop you. Neither should claims that Barney is the most important artist of our time. You can buy a Cremaster poster from Film Forum. And what does cremaster mean? Support his equally praised and possibly equally wacky paramour, Bjork.