Eileen G’Sell is a poet and culture critic whose work focuses on gender, sexuality, and economic class. She is a 2023 winner of the Rabkin Foundation Prize in arts journalism and teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
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While artist’s career has consistently invited interpretation based in institutional critique and real-world tumult, it is equally constructive to consider her work from a psychological, rather than political, vantage.
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Damon Davis plumbs the depths of Black history, fantasy, and mythology to create a vision of power and resilience in his St. Louis exhibition.
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One Sings, the Other Doesn't, Varda's precious and poignant feminist musical from 1977 has been restored.
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The provocative auteur's latest, The Misandrists, attempts a tongue-in-cheek critique of radical feminism.
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Let the Sunshine In is a rom-com only insofar as our heroine, a successful painter and divorcee, drinks and sleeps with a lot of men and frets about it later; but the laughs are few and the sighs are heavy.
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French director Bruno Dumont's latest, a ponderous experimental musical about Joan of Arc's childhood, celebrates the innocence and banality of a young saint’s life.
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French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin's latest, Ismael's Ghosts, offers a nuanced look at how women in mid-life grapple with fear and loneliness.
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Two exhibitions in St. Louis explore very different but complementary visions of how Black women have redefined glamor.
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Shock, gallows humor, and defanging the alpha male in Yorgos Lanthimos's The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
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Playing photographically with femininity, commodity, and bodily perception, Heather Bennett reveals a sly sense of humor.
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The film has elicited intense reactions with its super-saturated horror, but it also has a campy streak with feminist implications.