Politics
The New York premiere of Krystian Lupa’s The Trial has been cancelled, as promises of funding from Poland disappeared.
The New York premiere of Krystian Lupa’s The Trial has been cancelled, as promises of funding from Poland disappeared.
Of all my clients, I liked Wen Changbao because he never touched me. I just listened to him. For a while I thought of myself as his dog, simply because he was my first friend.
The poet’s new collection of essays, Minor Feelings, threads intense friendships, “bad” English, and standup comedy into a meditation on the Asian-American experience.
I disrupt the concupiscence of tube worms / where your snowy owl eye consults among white crusts / the venom of my gymnodactyl eye / which bribes the slag of trilobites
Reconciling a futurist aesthetic with a story of the past.
I hope you got some cool mountain air tonight / glamping with you is better even than sharing a coke
The insurgent Argentine documentarian’s retrospective screens at Anthology Film Archives from February 22 through 28.
Two of Brazil’s most renowned contemporary writers discuss the creative process, societal disparities, and politics.
Translated by Adam Morris.
Community in a bathhouse.
Hope at the point of despair; doubt at the point of hope.
Featuring selections by Tom Comitta, Molly Crabapple, Veronica Scott Esposito, Carlos Fonseca, and more.
An embarrassing incident at the Kremlin (from 2015? was it 2016?): in which women invited to an International Woman’s Day photo with Mr. Vladimir Putin arrive in high heels, much to the fear of Mr. Putin’s staff who are there to witness several tall women towering over the Russian Federation president.
Delving into public arts funding, resentment of “cultural elites,” and campaign finance, artist and curator discuss 2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics—Fraser’s examination of the intersection of cultural and political patronage.
He came in search of clues for an article about the disappearances that happened months before he arrived.
Examining the politics of representation.
The writer discusses growing up in the Borscht Belt, the prevalence of literary humor, and the power of feminist punch lines.
We are street people. Nomadic by nature. We are the grandchildren of poor, adventurous strangers. Our living radicalizes their legacy.
Two poets and a photographer discuss the presence of absence, the power of the number three, and art as documentation and disruption.
