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Jan 16, 2021 — Pedro Reyes is a Mexican artist of international renown whose conceptual, often sculptural works make use of unusual materials to imagine a better, more playful world. Over the course of his two-decade-plus career, he has married a keen social conscience with an innovative approach to solving social problems: his hands...
Jan 15, 2009 — I have never seen New York look so beautifully grand as it did during my trip to Paris this New Year’s. Maybe I should explain. It was my great fortune to be visiting the City of Light while the intensely...
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Jan 6, 2023 — The interdisciplinary Canadian artist was best-known in the States for such landmark films as Wavelength (1967) and La région centrale (1971).
Jul 6, 2020 — Josephine Decker’s most recent feature film, Shirley, which was released in June by Neon, premiered in U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance, where it received the Special Jury Award for Auteur Filmmaking. Madeline’s Madeline, Josephine's previous film, premiered at the 2018...
Aug 20, 2001 — Before Lars von Trier, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson there was Carl Th. Dreyer. The first great film artist to pursue the ineffable in cinema, Dreyer gave depth to what early silent filmmakers innately understood yet took...
The designer and subject of Douglas Keeve’s Unzipped shares why every artist should see The Red Shoes, admires the magnetism of Terence Stamp in Teorema, and delights in rediscovering his favorite westerns.
The filmmaker and artist shares his intimate connection to The Color of Pomegranates, talks about the “invisible magic” of Edward Yang’s cinema, and praises the innovative cinematography in Tokyo Olympiad.
The singer-songwriter and visual artist talks about the punk sensibility of Jubilee, shares why Paris Is Burning is a film she can watch endlessly, and shouts out the Eurythmics’ unique soundtrack for 1984.
The legendary musician, filmmaker, and visual artist talks about The Color of Pomegranates and how it challenges the idea of what a film can be, shouts out Neil Young’s Dead Man score, and shares his affection for the sentimentality in...
Evan Calder Williams is a writer, theorist, and artist. He is the author of Combined and Uneven Apocalypse and Roman Letters.