Art
Searching for a Global New Feminism
An exhibition attempts to find the new feminism in work by artists from around the world. It falls short of its task but raises some questions worth asking.
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Books
An Auteur's Enduring and Confounding Guide to Filmmaking
Robert Bresson's Notes on the Cinematograph, first published in 1975 and about to be reissued by New York Review Books, is not a manifesto or unified theory.
Art
An Artist’s Sticky-Note Project Spreads Post-Election Solidarity
Thousands of sticky-note messages have accumulated in the New York City subway, a moment of post-election solidarity evolved from artist Matthew Chavez's Subway Therapy project.
In Brief
A Campaign to Restore and Release Early American Films Directed by Women
Kino Lorber is crowdfunding an effort to rerelease more than a dozen movies made in the US by female directors between 1910 and 1929.
In Brief
American Institute of Architects Memo in Support of Trump Sparks Backlash from Members
The American Institute of Architects' post-election memo promising to work with President-elect Trump has been met with messages of protest from its 89,000-strong membership.
Announcement
Video Data Bank Celebrates 40 Years of Visionary Video
VDB TV: Decades, a five-part curated screening series, is now streaming for free at vdb.org/tv
Art
The Enduring Power of Experimental Paintings from 1975
Working during a period when it was proclaimed from every quarter that painting was dead, Reed and a sizable New York cohort of like-minded artists carried on below the fray.
Comics
Wandering the Short Run Comix & Arts Festival
So many of my comix heroes in one place.
Art
Required Reading
This week, it's mostly photos and visual reactions to the Trump presidency because sometimes words just don't work.
Art
Weekend Words: Forward
"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Walter Benjamin's ‘Sonnets’
In 1913, the young Walter Benjamin struck up an intense friendship with the poet Christoph Friedrich Heinle — one of the most enigmatic episodes in Benjamin’s enigmatic life.
Art
Seeking Community: Memories of 'The Poetry Project'
I think a conversation about community is important for many reasons, not the least being the rather utopian idea that there is someplace you can go where you feel safe.