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Eileen G'Sell

Eileen G'Sell is a regular contributor to Salon, VICE, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. In 2019 she was nominated for the Rabkin prize in arts journalism. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

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A Model Who Shunned Celebrity for Marxism

by Eileen G'Sell February 22, 2020February 24, 2020

The Disappearance of My Mother honors the staunch conviction and introversion of Benedetta Barzini, who shunned Warhol celebrity for political solidarity, and in her later years, Spartan solitude.

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The Eccentric Genius of Agnès Varda

by Eileen G'Sell February 8, 2020January 14, 2022

With her devotion to cats and heart-shaped everything, Varda personified adorably unconventional thinking — without apology or apparent self-consciousness.

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The Quiet Dignity of Peter Hujar

by Eileen G'Sell January 18, 2020January 23, 2020

Hujar wrote that his portrait subjects were “those who push themselves to any extreme” and those who “cling to the freedom to be themselves.”

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The Power and Limits of Ai Weiwei’s Irreverence

by Eileen G'Sell January 4, 2020January 3, 2020

While his political commitment comes through in many works, it’s hard to square talk of “revolution” with Ai Weiwei’s staggering mainstream US success.

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Dora Maar, More than a Surrealist Muse

by Eileen G'Sell July 27, 2019July 29, 2019

The Centre Pompidou’s Dora Maar honors Picasso’s famous muse for the pivotal part she clearly, and often daringly, played in the establishment of the European avant-garde.

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Reveling in the Languor of David Hockney’s World

by Eileen G'Sell July 13, 2019July 12, 2019

A Bigger Splash, Jack Hazan’s 1974 documentary on Hockney’s circle, basks in the full-frontal, day-to-day details of their tightly interwoven emotional lives.

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Juliette Binoche Offers a Tantalizing Performance in Her Two Latest Films

by Eileen G'Sell May 24, 2019June 24, 2022

In both High Life and Non-Fiction, Binoche is a temptress equally tender and intimidating.

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The Tender Turns of the Crime Drama Dogman

by Eileen G'Sell April 22, 2019April 19, 2019

Balancing verité grit with sometimes-howling humor, Matteo Garrone’s new movie is subtler than what viewers might anticipate.

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The Origins of the Colombian Drug Trade Told Through an Indigenous Family’s Eyes

by Eileen G'Sell March 5, 2019

The female-forward characters and the matrilineal Wayúu tribe the movie orbits have gone surprisingly under-explored by film critics.

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Virginia Lee Montgomery’s Abject Whimsy

by Eileen G'Sell February 23, 2019February 25, 2019

Virginia Lee Montgomery toys with the psychic space in which abjection is gendered, playfully prodding erotic hierarchies.

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Kehinde Wiley’s Painted Elegies for Ferguson

by Eileen G'Sell February 2, 2019February 8, 2019

The subjects of Wiley’s Ferguson paintings launch a vibrant dialogue between the canvas of the painting and the canvas of the body.

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Two Feminist Directors Who Exposed the Trials of Working Class Women

by Eileen G'Sell November 11, 2018November 9, 2018

While the female protagonists in Barbara Loden’s Wanda and Susan Seidelman’s Smithereens may be lost — and legitimately poor — the one thing they are not is self-pitying.

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