Film
Sarah Friedland Conjures the Distant Memory of Togetherness
Friedland’s films conjure a sense of heightened, almost spiritual attunement to a body’s movements.
Adina Glickstein
Art
Poking Holes in the Veneer of Our Social Media Selves
At Essex Street, Torey Thornton broaches the broader issues of our image-saturated age, considering who (and what) our self-styling ultimately serves.
News
Lynda Benglis Is Back — Knots, Pours, Dildos, and All
The patron saint of provocation is back with Early Work 1967-79, her first major New York show since 2011.
Art
Looking at Monet as the Planet Burns
At Giverny, by rendering landscapes of his own creation, Monet was not so much replicating nature as, in a sense, collaborating with it.
Film
"DIY or Die": Brooklynites Face the Apocalypse in Empty Metal
We might think of Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer's latest as a cyborg film — both its subject matter and formal approach depend on unifying across difference, a fuck-you to essentialized binaries.
Film
Cinematic Visions of Dante and Video Games Come Together in Russia
The Moscow International Experimental Film Festival creates an experience of genuine kino pravda.
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Seth Price’s Digital Dissolution
Price works over his photographs with chemicals, polymer fluids, and powdered earth — decimating digital data through analog means.
Art
Michel Auder’s Images of Images
Jonas Mekas has called Auder a “voyeur par excellence.”