Legends of Broadway; Off-Broadway's 'We Had A World'; Rashid Johnson At The Guggenheim; Tracy K. Smith Reads Poetry

Legends of Broadway; Off-Broadway's 'We Had A World'; Rashid Johnson At The Guggenheim; Tracy K. Smith Reads Poetry

Loading... The latest issue of New York Magazine is dedicated to the legends of Broadway including Liza Minelli, Patty Lupone and Andre DeShields. We speak with NY Mag's Editor-in-Chief David Haskell as well as Mark Seliger, photographer who shot the cover subjects--who were photographed in their most famous costumes. When his grandmother was dying, playwright Joshua Harmon secretly recorded the last conversation he ever had with her. Those reco…

Rashid Johnson’s Revelatory Guggenheim Survey Lets His Art Remain Complex and Elusive

Targets recur through Rashid Johnson’s rotunda-filling Guggenheim Museum retrospective, an insightful show that certainly hits the mark. The first can be seen outside the museum: a large steel sculpture called Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos (2008), its title a reference to a Public Enemy song of the same name. Inside, there are paintings in which crosshairs are singed into oak floorboards, and there’s a film in which a target appears on a beac…