Film
10 Queer Camp Films That Have Left an Impact on Film History
Memorable, mostly underseen gems that explore the tensions of queerness and camp on screen.
CAMP
Art
Camp at the Met Museum: A Serious Fail at “Failed Seriousness”
The problem with the exhibition is that it’s simultaneously too self-aware and too clueless to capture the essence of camp.
Art
Is Camp Still Camp if the Met Gala Makes It a Theme?
This year's Met Gala is named Notes on Fashion, in tribute to a Susan Sontag essay. But Sontag also wrote that "To talk about Camp is to betray it."
Opinion
Shifting From Catholicism to Camp, Met Gala Tries to Update Susan Sontag
This exhibition should feature a wax replica of Donatella Versace, RuPaul's extensive collection of wigs, and a sliver of John Waters' mustache — but I fear the Met's exhibition will be business as usual.
Books
Does It Suck? Another Look at 'Showgirls'
Long brushed off as a horrendous excuse for a film, Paul Verhoeven and Joe Eszterhas’s epic flop Showgirls may have more than meets the eye. Or, at least, its vulgar superficiality may be worth critical re-evaluation
Art
Making the Personal Collective at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Part 2
KOCHI, India — Pepper House is a quaint colonial structure with a lush central courtyard on the Kochi seafront, and serves as a major Biennale venue with some extraordinary displays — Alex Mathew’s monumental anchor rising upward in a surreal bid to touch the sky overhead greets you as you walk in.