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A vision of the grotesque, our morbid fascination with violence, and the aestheticization of war…
“El Desdichado” doesn’t quite work through melancholy but gives form and refuge to it.
“…the triptych painfully reminds us that the form today signifies a broken totality that can only be unified, at best, by an act of artistic creation.”
CRITICISM
“El Desdichado” doesn’t quite work through melancholy but gives form and refuge to it.
“…the triptych painfully reminds us that the form today signifies a broken totality that can only be unified, at best, by an act of artistic creation.”
And I wondered if I was awake or asleep, if it was the moon's paleness or Lucifer's, if it was midnight or dawn!
C. Philip Mills reviews Skinamarink
Genese Grill reviews Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889–1914.
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Ted Berrigan’s Collected Prose.
“I wanted to connect to people who were like-minded but also saw this as a new frontier with a lot of possibilities for art making.”
Bret Schneider and Omair Hussain discuss musical composition and their albums Drunk Walks and What Goes Away.
Victor Cova introduces a 1941 exchange between Claude Lévi-Strauss and André Breton.
Gilberto Perez’s commentary on history as seen through the lens of the filmmaker duo Straub-Huillet.
Personally, I associate Satie’s work with a feeling of the aridity that Nietzsche came to value over Wagnerism — the gentle sea-breeze in the highest mountains that wafts in from some strange land and tickles the senses with possibilities of spiritual freedom.
ART
In memory of Brice Marden (1938-2023)
“She’s trying to paint me into a corner with her question mark army. She’s wanting to light my pants on fire. She seems super mad at me.“
The 17th series in the ongoing collaboration between George Quasha’s preverbs and Susan Quasha’s photographic work.
A vision of the grotesque, our morbid fascination with violence, and the aestheticization of war…
Kevin O’Rourke reviews the album Sons Of by Sam Prekop and John McEntire.
Failure of failures. Gluck and Vika’s adventure comes to an end…for now!
Gluck turns a corner and encounters a challenge he’d never anticipated, revealing the true scale of his conflict. Will he give up…or find new strength?
Breaking out of jail is something of a specialty for Gluck. Finding his way around an unfamiliar city isn’t hard either. What does Gluck struggle with? I’m glad you asked!
“Film is, for me, an art of composition.”