Film
Hell Takes the Form of State Repression in 1971’s “The Devils”
Ken Russell’s film designed by Derek Jarman, newly released in a 4K restoration, mirrors the horrors unfolding outside our windows.
Derek Jarman
Art Review
An Exhibition Makes Absence Present
Works by Ana Mendieta, Derek Jarman, and P. Staff ask us to acknowledge loss — but also to see it as a way into altering the shape of our world.
Art
A Tribute to Artists Lost to AIDS Left Me With Mixed Feelings
I have to credit David Zwirner for attempting to include the queer community, but I can’t help but feel conflicted about the whole initiative.
Art
Basking in Derek Jarman’s Private Utopia
A recreation of the cottage where Jarman spent his final days, an exhibition at the Garden Museum creates a response to HIV that is at once personal and political, shining a light on wider issues of institutional homophobia.
Art
Moyra Davey Channels the Ghost of Derek Jarman
7 Albums is elliptical; it is poetic. The show works as an additive — but one that’s both nuanced and gentle.