Film
Hunger and Thirst: Chantal Akerman's 'Je tu il elle'
Chantal Akerman’s death by suicide in October 2015, led me to revisit many of her films and to watch new ones, among them Je tu il elle of 1975.
Review
Art
The Enabler
If measured as a flame to kindling, John D. Graham was arguably the most consequential figure in 20th-century American art.
Books
The Deceptively Cheerful Stripes of Deadly Fumigation Tents
You'd think that fun lies with their walls of colorful stripes, but inside the bright tents is the deadly gas of sulfuryl fluoride, quietly building up to eliminate nesting drywood termites.
Art
A Mini-Ecosystem Creates a Buzz at Socrates Sculpture Park
As numerous dump trucks circled a corner of Socrates Sculpture Park, transporting several tons of new soil, what appeared to have been routine landscape maintenance was actually the curation of a new mini-ecosystem, "A Concave Room for Bees."
Art
Cao Fei’s Fantastical Take on China’s Sociopolitical Climate
In Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities, Marco Polo regales Kublai Khan with tales of his travels, musing about the strange poetry of each city and their intersections with memory and selfhood.
Interview
Retracing a Lifetime of Urban Activism Through Jane Jacob's Last Interview
"The kind of planning for a city that would really work would be a sort of informed, intelligent improvisation, which is what most of our planning in life is in any case," said Jane Jacobs in a 1962 interview with Mademoiselle, conducted just after the 1961 publication of her influential The Death a
Art
In Phnom Penh, an Artist Confronts the City’s Deadly Traffic
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — In Phnom Penh, cars drive like motorcycles, motorcycles drive between lanes and on sidewalks, and even the police don't seem to care much about traffic lights.
Art
At a Concert, Floating Through Outer Space in Virtual Reality
On Saturday night, some 6,000 people gathered on the Prospect Park Bandshell’s grassy knoll and waited to be beamed up into space.
Art
'Women of Abstract Expressionism’ Challenges the Canon But Is Only the Beginning
DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire for Graham to perform in Staunton at the all women’s school she attended, Mary Baldwin College.
Art
Between Fantasy and Realism, Bo Bartlett Unmoors His Visions from the Everyday
On the same block where Bo Bartlett’s first solo exhibition in New York opened 35 years ago, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe is giving audiences a sneak peek into the much anticipated Bo Bartlett Center, set to open in Columbus, Georgia next fall.
Art
A Performance Evening of Uninspired Rituals
I first encountered the Silver Spiders in the rain.
Art
Stroll Through the Color and Light of an American Impressionist's Garden
As artists like Georges Seurat and Claude Monet were capturing the refinement of European gardens in quick brushstrokes, so did American Impressionists like Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase turn to the cultivated landscapes around them for inspiration.