Interview
“A Year of Vomiting Color”: Sean Price Williams on Cinematography
Williams talks about his relationship to cinematography, including his latest work in Thirst Street, the truest visual smorgasbord of all.
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Cobbling a Movie Together from Surveillance Footage
Artist Xu Bing's first feature film Dragonfly Eyes tells a story of love and obsession through footage culled entirely from videos uploaded to Chinese streaming sites.
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Unmasking a Female Luchador Serial Killer and Studying “Pigmentocracy” in Mexico
Feminist academic Susana Vargas discusses the visualization of machismo, sexism, race, and class in Mexico.
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"Censorship Is Always Arbitrary": An Interview with an Art Critic in Singapore
Weng-Choy Lee, president of the Singapore section of the International Association of Art Critics, discusses the country's complexities, the evils of capitalism, and the relevance of Foucault.
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Beer with a Painter: Suzanne Joelson and Gary Stephan
An artist couple talks about paintings with a punch line and a street full of rats.
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Arto Lindsay Remembers Hélio Oiticica
The guitarist of the No Wave band DNA talks about the 1970s in Downtown New York and his friend Hélio Oiticica, whose retrospective is now at the Whitney Museum.
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Sci-Fi Films that Question What It Means to Be Human
While the summer science fiction series is a common repertory staple, MoMA’s Future Imperfect: The Uncanny in Science Fiction stands apart from the rest with its interest in the uncommon.
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A Trans Artist Breaks Down the Walls of Bathroom Stalls
A conversation with the trans artist Emmett Ramstad explores how public bathrooms are contested spaces emblematic of how the United States functions.
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A Collection of Poetry Interviews Is a Work of Poetry Itself
Modern poets talk about the Poetry Project, a vital forum in which political ideologies fueled exchanges and spurred literary movements.
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Yvonne Rainer on How Filmmaking Gave Her Language
The dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker looks back on her career in light of her film retrospective starting at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
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“I Do Believe in a Speaking Brown Body”: Okwui Okpokwasili’s Dance Becomes a Documentary
The dancer and choreographer's breakout solo performance Bronx Gothic is the subject of a new documentary by Andrew Rossi at Film Forum.
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Beer with a Painter: Emily Cheng
The forms in Emily Cheng’s paintings are suggestive of the most primary elements: the landscape, the body, and religious iconography.