Neo-Marxism at the Nitehawk: On Parasite, Capitalism, and Modernity
Yesterday afternoon I entered the Nitehawk Cinema out of respite from the first day of New York winter to catch an early showing of Bong Joon-Ho’s new film Parasite. I grabbed a beer and headed into...
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In Absence of the Word, the Word Remains: On Joel Swanson’s Pink Erasers
Atop a white pedestal near the rear of David B. Smith Gallery’s main exhibition space sits a pink 13” x 13” x 13” cube. The artwork, titled “How many Pinkie erasers would it take to create a perfect...
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Arthur-Holics Anonymous: Why obsessing about Todd Phillips’ Joker is a Source...
As I was obsessing about sweet Arthur Fleck and super-hot Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, like many others, I started following online all of those thousand social media groups posting a thousand pictures per...
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For All of Those Times When Pain is Painfully Beautiful: A Reflection on...
The Broken Column, Frida Kahlo, 1944 It’s difficult to write about someone else’s pain. There is a risk of sounding insensitive, of making assumptions, of projecting your own interpretations. I have...
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The Waters: WATER’S EDGE
Pam Wye is an artist, educator, mom, swimmer. Her graphic history entitled “In the Midst of It All” was recently published in Spiralbound on Medium. Her graphic-memoir-in-progress, “Water I’ve...
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Yun Hyong-Keun: Towards a New Center
Burnt Umber and Ultramarine, 1989 I The initial feeling is one of recognition, then puzzlement. You feel as if you have come across these images before—in another museum, perhaps, or on Instagram,...
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THE NEW COMICS: Nance Van Winckel, “The Adventures of Admiral Dot”
NANCE VAN WINCKEL is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Our Foreigner, winner of the Pacific Coast Poetry Series Prize (Beyond Baroque Press, 2017), and five books of...
View ArticleThomas Bernhard: Your Typical Story-Destroyer
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel The Elder, 1563 Thomas Bernhard isn’t the subject of this essay. His style is—the tools he employs; the repetition; the bizarre speech markers; the tortured...
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THE NEW COMICS: Lauren Barnett
LAUREN BARNETT is a comic artist and painter. She’s been posting a new comic every day for over 12 years (now on Instagram ) and has a bunch of books available here. Barnett lives in Queens, NY with...
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ONE TAKE AFTER ANOTHER: A Notebook
May Picture, Paul Klee, 1925 . . . the act and the potential in the space of the event, in the event-ness of the event. —Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx I was twelve or thirteen years old when I...
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The Poetry Vlog: Conversation with Creator C.R. Grimmer
The Poetry Vlog is nurturing a community of poets in ways that has never been done before. I had the chance to sit down and chat with poet, scholar, and creator of The Poetry Vlog, C.R. Grimmer. C. R....
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PETER SAUL: A CASE OF NECESSARY EVIL?
SELF, 1987 Crime and Punishment, the title of Peter Saul’s retrospective at the New Museum, is fitting. His art is all culpability and implication, no restorative justice, hardly even a trial. In a...
View ArticleDerek Jarman and David Wojnarowicz, Queer Artmaking & Illness
Untitled – When I put my hands on your body, Wojnarowicz, 1990 “There are so many strangers crying in England these days…” Filmmaker Derek Jarman says in his classic memoir, Modern Nature. I The work...
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ON WINDOWS AND ART AND MEMORY SHAPES
Interior, 1939, Vanessa Bell © 1961 estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy Henrietta Garnett. Photo credit: Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service) The minute I expected the view from my window to show me...
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Broadway Went Dark: What Happens When Artists Lose their Medium
photo detail from Dustin Yellin’s Psychogeography Series, an installation for New York City Ballet, 2015 Broadway went dark, companies canceled seasons, studios shut down operations, theaters closed....
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THE NEW COMICS: “Genu”
“Homebound” (from GENU, Vol 1) GENU is a 5-part literary sci-fi graphic novel series written by Tommaso Todesca, Alex Franquelli, and Giulio Srubek Tomassy, illustrated by Aleksandra Fastovets, and...
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A Black Feminist’s Response to Trump’s Question: “Can We Get Gone with the...
The novel and film Gone with the Wind is a huge footnote in the history of America’s Jim Crow era. Among its main characters are Ashley Wilkes, once a southern gentleman, later a broken confederate...
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We Dance Ourselves: A COVID Obsession
still from the film Rosas Danst Rosas, directed by Stefaan Decostere These days everyone in my life seems to have an obsession: wormeries, reusable tissues, queer Tinder bios in rural England. I like...
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THE NEW COMICS: Ivy Huong Nguyen
IVY HUONG NGUYEN was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam, and immigrated to America with her family at the age of 10. She is currently attending the University of California, San Diego,...
View ArticleMy Arthur Russell and the Stigma of Loneliness
“AIDS is not over, sickness will never be over, care will always be needed. Moving towards justice means learning how to care from the past and present going forward.” – An Army of the Sick Cannot Be...
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