Features
Tuesday, April 7 2009
What We Write About When We Write About Art
On Edge exhibits a composite image of a younger, rougher New York: we know it existed, but it still has the power to shock and charm, like a photo of a beloved aunt as a teenager with cropped and blue hair.
Friday, June 27 2008
Samuel Beckett: Beyond the Endgame
Beckett’s dramatic work has been largely viewed as Theater of the Absurd but make no mistake, Endgame is Waiting for Godot's evil twin.
Wednesday, April 2 2008
Thaw: Russian Art from Glasnost to the Present
Fears and rumors of increasing state control insinuate that the most recent Russian thaw, as represented at this exhibit at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, might turn out to be just that: a limited period of freedom.
Reviews
Friday, January 23 2009
Le Plaisir
Ophuls' stories take Maupassant’s worldly wisdom and glamorous cynicism and imbue spirituality and compassion.
Friday, October 24 2008
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Pasolini’s career reads as a heartbreaking, stylized summary of the last century’s glamour and tragedy.
Friday, October 10 2008
Brain Upon the Brain!
However we choose to brand it -- post-apocalyptic, postmodern, post-historical -- the fashion of outrageous mash-ups is intimately linked with the movies.
Monday, September 22 2008
The Nightmare and the Dream by Dax-Devlon Ross
Author Dax-Devlon Ross reminds us that the personal is -- still -- political. And music is terribly personal.
Friday, April 25 2008
Last Year at Marienbad
This is the cinematic equivalent of whale bone-enforced corset, silk from the colonies, and the kind of workmanship only extreme class disparity can provide.
