Author Archives: Skye Parrott

Richard Kern at Anthology Film Archives

Anthology Film Archives will be screening two programs of films by Richard Kern this weekend. Shot in the 1980′s on Super-8 and originally distributed on VHS , the films are described by Anthology as as “darkly comedic, shocking, sexy, disturbed, debauched, violent, and really quite wonderful.” They feature the likes of Lydia Lunch, Nick Zedd, David [...]

Shirin Neshat’s Seasons

Shirin Neshat, who we profiled in Dossier Issue 7, spoke to us about her more recent move towards film as an artistic medium. In that vein, she has been working on a series of videos for the four seasons which are running on the New York Times Opinion page. The spring video, entitled Egypt in [...]

The Female Gaze

Dossier Contributing Editor Caris Reid has curated a portfolio for the art site Paddle8. The portfolio, which posted today, is on the subject of the female gaze – specifically, the intimate female gaze turned onto men. Caris had recently started a series of paintings that deal with the male body and male beauty when the [...]

September Mix

Every month, artist Sam Falls makes a mix and sends it out to a group of friends. He also shares the playlists as a monthly feature here. They are compiled from the daily mixes he makes in his studio while working and are deliberately unthemed. Click here to download the September mix.

August Mix

Every month, artist Sam Falls makes a mix and sends it out to a group of friends. He also shares the playlists as a monthly feature here. They are compiled from the daily mixes he makes in his studio while working and are deliberately unthemed. Click here to download the August mix.

Performa 09 Book Launch

Curator and Performa director RoseLee Goldberg is launching her book, Performa 09: Back to Futurism, which is a definitive account of the performance biennial. The book includes creative documentation by the 150 artists who participated – among them Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz, Omer Fast, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mike Kelley, Arto Lindsay, Wangechi Mutu, Christian Tomaszewski, Yeondoo Jung, Keren Cytter, [...]

The Pop Manifesto Issue 8

The Pop Manifesto is an online magazine published by Ilirjana Alushaj (of the band Apache Beat) and Karl Maier. They showcase music, art, design and fashion, but heavy on the music. They just published their eighth issue, which features Fecal Face, Ford & Lopatin, How To Dress Well, Puro Instinct, Ryan De La Hoz, Greatest Hits, Y’OH, [...]

Midnight Weddings

Just after midnight Sunday, when the legalization of same-sex marriage took effect, several couples were married in New York. The above photo is Cheryle Rudd and Kitty Lambert, two grandmothers, who were married in front of Niagara Falls by the mayor. Many of their five children and twelve grandchildren were there. The photograph is of Harold Lohner [...]

104 Degrees and Counting

It was 104 degrees yesterday in Central Park with a heat index of 114. That’s two degrees shy of the record temperature ever for New York City. The heatwave is expected to continue through the weekend. I saw a lot of open fire hydrants yesterday, and read an article that talked about people just riding the [...]

Capricious Goes Non-Profit

Printing is expensive. When we first started Dossier, everyone (and I do mean everyone) we spoke with suggested we make it a solely online publication so as to avoid the prohibative costs of printing. Capricious founder Sophie Morner was one of the few people who was really encouraging about printing. She told me, you figure [...]