The Struggle Is Real: Morgan Parker’s Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night
Gina Myers08.13.15
What is BreakBeat poetry? Who is Miss Black America? Morgan Parker’s debut collection sheds a ton of necessary light. Gina Myers reviews.
BENEATH THE SKIN: NEW TRADITIONS BY SOL PERSONA
Paul Cunningham08.04.15
Paul Cunningham examines Pittsburgh’s Sol Persona, a solo project from Karter Schachner, for fans of Perfume Genius and How to Dress Well.
Ideal Home Noise (2): McCarthy, Zacchilli, Dylan
Jeff Jackson07.28.15
Jeff Jackson’s second installation of Ideal Home Noise rounds up new work from Tom McCarthy, Mickey Zacchilli, and Bob Dylan.
Half Out Where
Nicholas Grider07.23.15
How do we begin to talk about work that we can barely begin to identify the direction of?
A Strawberry Bed: The Collages of John Ashbery and Guy Maddin
Todd Colby07.21.15
Todd Colby reviews an exhibition of collages by John Asbhery and Guy Maddin at the Tibor de Nagy gallery in Manhattan thru July 31.
Baked Goods: Encountering Sean Baker’s Cinema
Tanner Tafelski07.20.15
Tanner Tafelski takes a look back at the three most recent films by Sean Baker, recently including Tangerine, a feature film shot via the iPhone5.
More Than Love: A Review of Bound: An Ode To Falling In Love
Dalton Day07.16.15
“In the future (which isn’t too far off now, about fifty years or so, I’d guess), the scientists of the world will study love. ” Dalton Day reviews a new collaboration between Carolyn DeCarlo and Jackson Nieuwland.
Adjustment Disorder: On Reading Rob Halpern’s Common Place
Dodie Bellamy07.09.15
“Halpern filters autopsy language through various lyrical and analytic modes, melding it with Whitman, Genet, Foucault, 19th century autopsy manual, Wikileaks document, de Sade, de Beauvoir, Alice Notley, Marx, Hegel, Baudelaire, etc.” Dodie Bellamy reviews.
The Patron Saint of the Impossible: Francesco Munzi’s Black Souls
Eric Nelson07.06.15
The latest film from Francesco Munzi appropriates mob culture, not through violence, but through moral strategy. Eric Nelson reviews.
Hidden Signals: A Review of Cynan Jones’s The Dig
Nathaniel Popkin06.18.15
The colliding lives of badger baiters and lamb birthers derive beautifully stark tension. Nathaniel Popkin reviews.
