Film
The Remarkable Films of Anne-Marie Miéville, Godard's Partner and Collaborator
Little is known about Miéville, but what people are searching for can be found in her films, and has been there the whole time.
Review
Music
A Female Pioneer of Electronic Music Retakes the Stage
Suzanne Ciani, a pioneer of electronic music in the 1970s and ’80s, played her Buchla 200e in a rare improvised performance at a small Philadelphia theater, and it was completely packed.
Art
From Tiny Trumps to Terrifying Ties: Big League Memes for the 45th President
The meme-ification of Donald Trump is a growing phenomenon that speaks loudly to the absurdity of the 45th president.
Art
This Addictive M.C. Escher Video Game Might Make You Puke
Antoine Zanuttini's Fragments of Euclid is a downright mind-bending game inspired by M.C. Escher's labyrinthine interiors.
Art
Bouquets Highlight Plants Used to Control Women’s Reproductive Health
An exhibition looks at plant remedies that women have used to control their reproductive lives.
Books
An Art of Dislocation and Reinvention Reflects the Epic of Black America
Quite simply, the history, not just of art in Los Angeles, but of modern American art generally will have to be reconceived on the basis of Now Dig This!, the exhibition curated by Kellie Jones, and her new book, South of Pico.
Books
Pitching Poetry: Charles Bernstein's Essays and Interviews
From the outset of his career Bernstein has fought for a poetry of leaps and fissures, one that inhabits the space between logic and irrationality.
Art
Everybody Should Want to Belong to Sedrick Huckaby’s Tribe
Huckaby, who lives in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was raised, and teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington, draws people he knows: family, friends, and neighbors in the African American community: he makes the local become something more.
Art
Dawn Clements’ Love of Things
Clements’ dedication to drawing — “the way she sees,” as she once told Susan Swenson — is registered in the shifts and jumps in perspective, and in her use of separate sheets of paper to define the limits of her focus.
Performance
The Embodied Life Writing of Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Aynsley Vandenbroucke has been exploring the relation of literary formalism to the human body in a way few writers, if any, are doing.
Art
Painting Isn’t Dead! It’s Just Slow
Quicktime takes its cue from Raphael Rubinstein’s “Provisional Painting,” published in the May 2009 issue of Art in America. In the essay, Rubinstein discusses a handful of artists who seem to “turn away from ‘strong’ painting” in favor of works “that look casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished o
Film
A Cinematic Portrait of David Lynch’s Life and Art Before Film
The new documentary David Lynch: The Art Life is an engrossing account of the artist's early life, from childhood to film school.