Film
A Search for Love and Safety in LGBTQ Nightclubs
When Adomako Aman decided to make Dancing in the Dark, he was seeking solidarity with “other gay men, especially gay men of color” who could share in his experience.
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Art
When an Exhibition Leaves You Feeling Like an Idiot
Alivia Zivich, a co-curator of the chaotic exhibition Eric Schmid is an Idiot, likened the experience of putting the 80-something artist show together to "tying loose strings to other loose strings."
Art
Miniature Military Drones Decorated in a Pakistani Folk Art Tradition
Mahwish Chishty projects Pakistan’s folk art traditions against the blank flanks of America’s weapons of war, subsumed by the very culture they target.
Art
In Paintings and Ceramics, Theaster Gates Salvages Charged Materials
In his new show at Regen Projects, Gates showcases paintings based on data visualizations by W.E.B. Du Bois and ceramic sculptures that reinterpret iconic forms.
Art
How Art Making Is a Type of Management
The Visible Hand looks at how artists themselves build institutions, are managers, and are very much a part of and influenced by the systems their work moves through.
Film
An Insider's View of the Life and Death of a Brooklyn DIY Venue
A new documentary about Death By Audio, a beloved music venue in Williamsburg that was forced to shutter in 2014, over-relies on the reminiscences of the people involved with the space.
Art
The Power of Protest Art and the Dignity of the Protester
An exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem about organized protests asks if they can push us to recognize our shared humanity.
Books
Reader's Diary: The Monastery Door Is Open
Pierre Reverdy’s novel The Thief of Talant is not a novel at all, but a long poem or sequence with elusive narrative underpinnings.
Books
The End of the World as We Know It
The Nuclear Culture Source Book considers the “lived experience of the uncanny nature of radiation” ushered in by disasters such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima.
Art
Perhaps Eleanore Mikus Will Not Be Under-Recognized Anymore
If we compare her with other women artists from the 1960s working in a reductive vein, Eleanore Mikus seems to have thoroughly vanished, more so than her peers, and often isn’t included in surveys or textbooks of that period.
Art
A Ribald World of One’s Own: The Watercolors of Gladys Nilsson
It is Gladys Nilsson’s attention to awkward and unconscious things that people do to themselves while out in public that makes her work fascinating to look at.
Film
Invitation to the Party: Jan Nemec's 1966 Satire of Czech Communism
Long seen as the “enfant terrible” of Czech cinema, Němec constantly found himself in trouble with Czech government authorities, and was almost arrested for making this film.