The Pleasure of Being Robbed is the debut feature by young filmmaker Josh Safdie. Beautifully shot on 16 mm in the late night/early morning streets of New York, it tells the story of Eleonore (played by Eleonore Hendricks, who also co-wrote the film with Safdie), a kleptomaniac wandering the city — stealing wallets, purses, and [...]
Author Archives: Philip Watts
Chris Johanson at Deitch Projects
September 23, 2008 – 1:17 pm
Well, you’ve got just under a month to get to Deitch Projects to take in the current Chris Johanson show Totalities, which closes October 25th. The timing couldn’t be more perfect: It just clouded over, we’re being told it’s now officially fall, and what we want to do most is to look at bright colors [...]
Chris Duncan: The Faith Void Split
September 3, 2008 – 2:50 pm
Chris Duncan’s second solo show, opening this Thursday at the Jeff Bailey Gallery, explores the artist’s obsession with a split LP released on Dischord Records in 1982. “Faith Void Split” featured 12 songs by each band, Faith and the Void, and its contradictions in message and tone made a huge impact on Duncan.
Huge Magazine
September 2, 2008 – 2:29 pm
It’s possible that Huge is the best men’s fashion magazine currently in circulation. Launched in Japan in 2004, the monthly is everything that’s been missing in men’s fashion journalism for the last decade. The only problem: Unless you can read Japanese, you’re stuck looking at pictures.
‘Summer Reading’ at Capricious
August 26, 2008 – 10:52 am
Capricious is legendary for its publishing prowess: From Capricious Magazine, to Girls Like Us and Can’t Be Famous magazines, they’ve created a publishing mini-empire. Now they’ve transformed their gallery-fronted office space at 103 Broadway (between Bedford and Berry) in Williamsburg into a sun-drenched library, with an exhibition called “Summer Reading.” On view until September 21st, [...]
Does Your Soul Have A Cold?
August 21, 2008 – 4:31 pm
If you’ve been wondering what Mike Mills has been up to since his feature film Thumbsucker debuted in 2005, some of your questions can now be answered.
New York Tyrant
August 18, 2008 – 11:01 am
Sure, Granta’s been around a while, and The Paris Review is fine and well. But what about when you want to read something new? I mean, really new. So new that you’ve never heard of its contributors, and aren’t sure how to pronounce their names? There are a lot of small literary journals out there, [...]
Peter Sutherland at Family
August 13, 2008 – 1:53 pm
New York native Peter Sutherland’s photography should be well-known to a lot of you out there, so if you happen to be in L.A in the next 24 hours, check out his book launch at Family (probably the best bookstore ever), tomorrow at 7:30. Sutherland will be showing slides and video footage of the making [...]
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August 12, 2008 – 11:50 am
One of the best things about the internet — in fact one of the few saving graces of the internet — is the abundance of great little projects: online galleries and portfolios one stumbles across while playing link tag from one website to the next. Often I find myself spending an afternoon indulging in the [...]
