Review
What could have been a fantastic twenty-minute short becomes a tedious slog as a stretched-out feature.
Read MoreA welcome homecoming for a new 4K digital restoration of a landmark independent film that’s attained cult status.
Read MoreAfrica’s Struggle for Its Art usefully charts the prequel to current campaigns pressuring for the return of colonial plunder.
Read MoreAgain and again, we are taken in The Will to See to places where regular reporters never venture, and certainly not filmgoers.
Read MoreSy Montgomery raises the question of our relationship to the world and all its animals and nudges us toward the view that even predators deserve our support and admiration because of the value they bring to our planet.
Read MoreIt is not unusual for most series to hit a sophomore slump, but Hacks manages to avoid this fate, partly because of how deftly it expands on its original premise.
Read MoreWe need to realize how important class is in order to understand how inequality can rise as Confederate monuments fall.
Read MoreMaking the viewer draw visual connections among Matisse’s pieces in the title painting is at the core of MoMA’s The Red Studio.
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Book Review: “The Poetics of Cruising” — Imaginative Acts of Capture
By exploring the historical and artistic significance of cruising throughout poetry, photography, and visual culture, the book produces a rich and exciting topography of queer culture that posits a reflexive relationship of vicarious cruising between “cruising texts” and their consumers.
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