“If you’re a filmmaker today you have to accept that people are going to watch your work on a laptop while they’re checking their email,” said Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green before Thursday night’s sold-out opening of his new “live documentary,” Utopia in Four Movements, at The Kitchen in Chelsea. ”I’m still very much attached to the [...]
Author Archives: Rachel Corbett
The Sonic Happening: Doug Aitken’s Migration
October 23, 2008 – 4:24 pm
More than a hundred viewers crowded cross-legged on the floor of the 303 Gallery’s 21st Street space last night to watch live bands improvise a soundtrack to Doug Aitken’s latest film-based installation, “Migration.” One after another, three acts, White Rainbow, Lichens and Arp, accompanied the three billboard screens displaying Aitken’s western imagery — buffalo, train [...]
Dandy Land
September 4, 2008 – 2:37 pm
Sometime during the next few weeks, those in France should make a trip out to Granville, the seaside town where Christian Dior once lived in a big pink house on a cliff. His home has since been transformed into the Musée Christian Dior, and the current exhibition, “Dandysmes: 1808-2008” displays silk cravats, David Bowie’s smoking [...]
