Marina Abramovic's first solo exhibition in New York since her 2010 MoMA retrospective, The Artist Is Present, will be a whole lot of nothing. The artist just announced that Generator, opening October 24, will transform Sean Kelly gallery into a space of sensory deprivation. Any visitors -- including the #artselfie-happy Carter family -- will have to check their cellphones, watches, and bags in a locker at the door. From there, you'll get a pair of noise-cancelling headphones and a blindfold in order to ~experience the art~. Like Abramovic's recent performances, including The Artist is Present and 512 Hours, the art is in the viewer's experience. A press release from Sean Kelly gallery explains that "dealing with both the meditative and the communal, Generator will be a unique environment for visitors to push the boundaries of their self-awareness and inner-consciousness, as they are confronted with nothing but themselves and the palpable energy in the room."
While we're all about feelings and energy and vibes, what's an art show in 2014 without its countering #artselfie? We're being dramatic, of course, but we can all agree that the Internet would be devastatingly worse off if Beyoncé and Jay Z didn't have their iPhones at the ready while perusing the Louvre.
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In honor of their 40th anniversary, High Times is looking back on their history as radical and necessary purveyors of counterculture. The result is a stunning book, High Times: A 40 Year History of the World's Most Infamous Magazine -- out today from 
But High Times started as a Playboy parody?
Looking back on 40 years of High Times, in the '70s and early '80s it seemed like the magazine was focused on weed and other drugs as they interlinked with other counterculture movements. You had Charles Bukowski writing alongside spliff tutorials. You had a lot of culturally impactful writers doing work for the magazine. 
In the '80s it seemed like High Times started to cover drugs outside of weed. There was a lot of cocaine. Was that kind of a weird time, in terms of identity, for the magazine? 
Speaking of editorial changes, you wrote in the book that in 2003 -- when Richard Stratton and John Buffalo Mailer took over the magazine -- there was a moment when the vision for High Times was to get rid of the pot and become a purely literary journal. What was that about? 
In my mind, I've always linked High Times to bro culture. It never seemed like a magazine for women who smoked weed. The 
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Karl Lagerfeld's Punching Bag and Punching Trunk for Louis Vuitton
Rei Kawakubo's Bag With Holes for Louis Vuitton
Cindy Sherman's Studio in a Trunk for Louis Vuitton
Marc Newson's Fleece Pack for Louis Vuitton
Christian Louboutin's Shopping Trolley for Louis Vuitton
Frank Gehry's Twisted Box for Louis Vuitton
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Natalia wears a Prada dress and scarf and Bibi van der Velden ring and bracelets
J.K. Simmons is really good as the sadistic conductor in Whiplash. To get a performance out of his musicians, he throws a chair at their heads, slaps them, and generally treats them like caca. If you don't keep playing, "You're fired."
Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike have gotten raves for playing counter-manipulating marrieds in Gone Girl. I won't give away the twists -- but believe me it's twist-ed.
Steve Carell has won acclaim for portraying a paranoid schizophrenic killer in the true story of male bonding gone awry, Foxcatcher. He's even more disturbed than in Despicable Me.
Julianne Moore stands out in Maps to the Stars as an actress with very little grip on right or wrong as she desperately vies for a movie role. Everyone else in the film is nuts too, so maybe they'll all get nominated.
The wonderful Julianne is also garnering kudos for Still Alice, in which she plays a cognitive psychologist diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. In the old days, Susan Hayward would have played the part and won an Oscar for it. Can't see why Julianne won't do the same.
Shailene Woodley has cancer in The Fault in Our Stars, and even though this basically amounts to wearing a small tube and coughing once in a while, she's pretty affecting.
Eddie Redmayne gets a surefire nomination for The Theory of Everything, in which he's physicist Stephen Hawking, who's paralyzed due to a motor neuron disease and talks through a speech generating device. But Eddie's fully able to speak at various podiums.
So is Robert Duvall. In The Judge, he's only pretending to have stage-four cancer and memory loss. And he's brilliant.
In Wild, Reese Witherspoon hikes over 1000 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, all by her lonesome. Sort of like after her last divorce.
Here's the background for Reese's other Oscar flick, The Good Lie: "They were known simply as 'the Lost Boys'. Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan, these young victims traveled as much as 1000 miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later..."
In The Homesman, Hilary Swank plays a spirited wench with the task of transporting three women by covered wagon to Iowa, during which time "she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be." By the way, the women have been driven mad by pioneer life, so we're talking psychoses too!
In the Angelina Jolie directed film Unbroken, a war hero and two other crewmen survived in a raft for 47 days, only to be captured by the Japanese and sent to a prisoner of war camp. You know the drill. 
In Fury, starring Angelina's hubby Brad Pitt -- and Shia LaBeouf's intense 
The Jon Stewart-directed Rosewater is based on the novel Then They Came For Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival. 'Nuff said.
And in Tracks, Mia Wasikowska plays a young woman who leaves her home to schlep alone through almost 2000 miles of Australian desert. She's definitely got Reese Witherspoon topped -- though to be fair, she did bring a dog and four camels for company.
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NYC-based artist (and Paper contributor) Eric T. White has a solo show of large-scale photographs at 
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IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street) and Ennead Architects launch a new monthly screening and discussion series called "Reframed" on Monday, October 20, 8 p.m. with a tribute to legendary designer Massimo Vignelli and a screening of the 2007 documentary HELVETICA. More info and tickets are available 
If you're in Times Square around midnight, be sure to check out the "takeover" of all the electronic billboards by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda with his work called 
