A Homerist’s Review of “The Odyssey”
Historian Joel Christensen reacts to Christopher Nolan’s epic, artists speak candidly about AI, and a forthcoming film adaptation of the Louvre heist.
We love hating on AI but use it anyway, even if we're not aware of it. A short documentary from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project asks artists: How do you truly feel about this emerging technology? The film, premiered exclusively on Hyperallergic, is based on a survey of 2,000 art graduates. Give it a watch.
Read Homerist Joel Christensen’s take on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, plus reviews of new films about Caravaggio, Georgia O'Keeffe, and the muse-artist relationship between Kate Moss and Lucian Freud. Finally, brace yourself for a forthcoming adaptation of the Louvre heist.
—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief
In a New Documentary, Artists Get Candid About AI
In the short film from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, artists and creative workers get candid about generative technology, sharing their fears, ethical qualms, and real-life experiences. The 19-minute documentary, premiering exclusively on Hyperallergic, is based on the 2025 Pulse Survey on AI and Work, which collected responses from over 2,000 postsecondary arts and design graduates across more than 100 colleges and universities in the United States.
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The world’s most significant and groundbreaking filmmakers of color will gather to showcase their work in Philadelphia August 6-9.
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The Louvre Heist Is Coming to a Cinema Near You
The brazen theft at the Paris museum is set for a film adaptation amid an ongoing investigation and the stolen jewels still at large.
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Meet the Doyennes of Ecosexuality
In their latest film, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens advocate replacing an exploitative relationship with the Earth with one based on intimacy, care, and pleasure.
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Animated Nellie Mae Rowe Biopic Coming to YouTube
Streaming of the 2023 film, which lovingly immortalizes the late self-taught Black artist’s life and legacy, starts on July 2. | Rhea Nayyar
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A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”
“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.” | Joel Christensen
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Four Centuries Later, We Still Don’t Get Caravaggio
A British docudrama serves as a salutary primer on the Baroque master’s greatest works, but we should be wary of what it tells us about the personality of its subject. | Anthony Majanlahti
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Georgia O’Keeffe the Wanderer
A new documentary presents the artist as a perpetual voyager, generously highlighting her lesser-known work and combating myths about her relationship with Alfred Stieglitz. | Debra Brehmer
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The Best Part of “Moss & Freud” Is When It’s Over
In the film, Kate Moss is looking for the right man to get her sober, and Lucian Freud is a Great Man who magically sees the “truth” in young women. | Eileen G’Sell
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The Making of a Maintenance Artist
A new documentary traces Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s decades-long practice of spotlighting marginal, unpaid, and feminine labor. | Dan Schindel
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How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time
This crowd-curated digital movement is one of the most pertinent and explicit reactions to our particular slice of dystopian late capitalism. | Ed Simon
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The Fraught Rapture of Seeing Other Women Onscreen
Feminist film scholar Lori Jo Marso redresses misconceptions of the gendered gaze, parsing through the lessons we can learn from our exhilaration and unease.
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