We the People, declared the title of Ben Rivers’ 2004 short film, predicting the subjects of movies to come. Black-and-white views of an empty, narrow street between buildings; mob cries alternating ...
Sontag, 1975 by Peter Hugar. Courtesy of The Susan Sontag Foundation. As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 Susan Sontag, ed. by David Rieff. Farrar, Straus and Gir...
Courtesy of AP/Evan Vucci. It is hard to ignore the blatant hypocrisy in President Obama’s recent Proclamation calling for May 1st to be official named “Loyalty Day” in the United States. While Inter...
Benoit Pype's 'Fabrique du résiduel.' Photo by Benjamin Evans. The contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has recently drawn attention to the insistence by most philosophers ...
César Aira. Courtesy of Center for the Art of Translation. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira. New Directions. The Literary Conference by César Aira. New Directions. How I Be...
Editor’s note: Amos Vogel — founder of Cinema 16 and the New York Film Festival, author of Film as a Subversive Art, and one of the most titanically important cineastes of all time — died...
Courtesy of the Criterion Collection. On March 8, 2012, Hollis Frampton went viral. The Criterion Collection, in preparation for the release of a long-anticipated Frampton box set, posted a fragment ...
still from "Poto and Cabengo," courtesy of the Criterion Collection “You can only be a foreigner in a language other than your own.” These are the first words spoken in Poto and Cabengo (19...
Thomas Kinkade's "Nanette's Cottage," courtesy of the artist's estate Somewhere on the list of my top five art experiences is my first encounter with a “genuine” Thomas Kinka...
Untitled, 1972. Courtesy of David Zwirner. After the overwhelming noise and bustle that is the New York art world during Armory week, the Fred Sandback exhibit Decades at Zwirner is initially a calmi...
Young director Cecile Mavet has managed something remarkable in her quiet and intensely beautiful short film, L’Appel (The Calling). In twenty minutes, Mavet provides a vignette of a young woman grap...
courtesy of The Paris Review The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin Edited by Archie Burnett FSG. 2012. Reviewing Anthony Thwaite’s edition of Philip Larkin’s Collected Poems, published by Faber & ...
cover of "Mrs. Nixon." Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life by Ann Beattie Scribner, 2011 In his 2010 manifesto, Reality Hunger, David Shields attacked realism in fiction, calling upon wr...
still from "Goodbye," 2011. courtesy of Film Center Lincoln Center. Goodbye, showing Thursday, March 22 and Saturday, March 24 as part of this year’s New Directors/New Films festival, is a ...
Sarah Michelson's "Devotion Study #1—The American Dancer," © Paula Court. The observation of devotion could finish you… –Erín Moure, Pillage Laud The act of going to perfor...
"Triangle," 1979. courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Is it more surprising that Croatian artist Sanja Iveković has never had a major exhibition of her work in the United States...
Collage of Film Stills, courtesy of Adam Curtis. “Adam Curtis is not an artist, but a television journalist,” notes Hans Ulrich Obrist in his press release for the Adam Curtis retrospective at e-flux...
Michael Riedel 's installation for David Zwirner. Image by Rachel Wetzler. For his Cartier Award commission at the 2010 Frieze Art Fair, British artist Simon Fujiwara created the installation Fr...
courtesy of the artist The Philippines were officially occupied by the United States from 1903 to 1991. During this time, the American military used the area as a launch-pad for nearly every major co...
illustration from The Little Prince. Parable of the Sower By Octavia Butler Warner Books, 1993 A Wrinkle in Time By Madeleine L’Engle Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1962 The Little Prince By Ant...
One has only to look the length of recent exhibitions on Chelsea’s 25th street to understand: abstract painting that grows out of gesture, color, and an engagement with material pigment remains a tou...
The basic thing about Los Angeles…was that it lacked the dimensions of time…There were no seasons there, no days of the week, no night and day; beyond that, there was (or was supposed to ...
still from A Dangerous Method, courtesy of HanWay Films I. Is cinema neurotic? Certainly it is prepossessed by images of its own death and Oedipal strangeness. Let’s examine the year’s critical darli...
photo by Matthew Allard, courtesy of the author Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan Macmillon, 2011 Consider for a moment that fate conspires to make you into something particular. A race car driver, ...
still from Melancholia, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures The past few months have seen a steady stream of year-end critics’ polls, with two films consistently placed toward the top. This is a problem, s...
Le Cirque Invisible, via Anyone who has been to the circus within the last decade or so does not have to be told that things have changed considerably since the days of the traditional big top. High-...
Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), 18 years old, via Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel, translated by Mark Polizzotti Dalkey Archive Press, 2011 New Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel, transla...
Tommy Hartung, Anna (video still), 2011, via On Stellar Rays For his first solo show at the Orchard Street gallery On Stellar Rays, The Ascent of Man (2009), Tommy Hartung created a video inspired by...
Tin Pressed (2011) Dani Leventhal’s movies try to make sense of the complexities of adult life, from her personal background to her current relationships with friends and family members; from global ...
Byron Kim, Untitled (for J.B.), 2010, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 72 inches, via James Cohan Gallery In his exhibition Night at James Cohan Gallery, Byron Kim presents 9 paintings of the night sky, trans...
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