This weekend is the fourth annual Wassaic Project Summer Festival, which includes three days of events featuring exhibits with over 100 artists, 23 bands, dance performances, poetry readings and midnight film screenings shown in a big barn. Not only is this festival free but people are encouraged to camp on the grounds. There are so [...]
Category Archives: Film
The Fist is Still Up
June 20, 2011 – 8:59 am
In conjunction with his month-long residency at The New Museum, Wu Tsang’s New York solo debut is showing at Clifton Benevento. The exhibit features work based on Tsang’s experiences with the Silver Platter, a Los Angeles bar that serves a community of predominately trans Latina women, and where Tsang also co-organized the performance night/party Wildness. He [...]
!Women Art Revolution
June 16, 2011 – 11:56 am
Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson and scored by Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein, !Women Art Revolution traces the history and influence of modern feminist art as a collective movement, from its incubation in the 1960s to its artistic and political evolution in the following decades. Featuring interviews with and works by seminal artists, historians, curators and critics [...]
Dirty Old Town
May 24, 2011 – 9:05 am
Dirty Old Town is a fairy tale set on the Bowery, the story of a man about to lose his business and his mind. That man, William Leroy, is the curmudgeonly owner of Billy’s Antiques and Props on Houston Street, a shop within a tent that is a throwback to another New York. That Billy’s has managed to stay [...]
Zeina Durra & Elodie Bouchez
April 13, 2011 – 11:04 am
This Friday, The Imperialists are Still Alive! opens at the IFC Center. Written and directed by London-born Zeina Durra, who is of Bosnian, Palestinian, Jordanian and Lebanese descent, the film pulls from Durra’s life, focusing on a female artist of the same background, named Asya, living in New York after 9/11. Dealing with issues such [...]
Fan Mail
April 4, 2011 – 10:31 am
This video is the first in a series called I’m Your Fan created by the ladies over at TwinBike, where they assemble ‘fan’ footage surrounding a specific person by asking friends for recollections and musings to form an identity without the person actually appearing in the video. In this case the subject is the artist [...]
True Romance
March 25, 2011 – 3:35 pm
My first awareness of Elizabeth Taylor was in the 80′s. She had perfumes. She was friends with Michael Jackson. She had been married a lot. Sometimes she was on talk shows. She had that over-tucked, over-dyed, plastic look that makes older celebrities look really scary. I didn’t really know who she was beyond that. It wasn’t [...]
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
March 15, 2011 – 7:37 am
Photographer Shawn Brackbill began using Polaroid cameras and film to shoot fashion last fall during New York Fashion Week, where he discovered the unique emotional bond that the instant film creates with its subjects. “In all of the backstage chaos,” he recalls, “I found that the Polaroid camera really put my subjects at ease. They’re [...]
The Fuckn Detroit House
February 9, 2011 – 2:30 pm
Tonight, The Humble Arts Foundation is having a screening of The Lakehouse, the 2006 movie starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock where they are trapped in some time warp or something in a really beautiful architectural lake house. I’m not really sure. I think it’s a cult-movie type thing for people who like fancy houses. [...]
