PARIAH: A Failed Hit Good Film: 6.5 ****** / 10*********** Reviewed by Poonam Srivastava, lesbian film critic in residence
Tsaurah Litzky – Cleaning the Duck – review by Steve Dalachinsky
Posted by in Book Reviews | Poetry - (Comments Off)Tsaurah Litzky claims in one of her poems that it is “the lowlife” in her that got her where she is today. well that’s pretty high up there overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge sharing her apartment with the spirit of Hart Crane. Writing as he did her words about the torturous paradise we call the here … Read more
Branding the Antarctic for Humanity’s Sake
Posted by in Book Reviews | Books | Essays - (Comments Off)Branding the Antarctic for Humanity’s Sake by Marc Nasdor The Book of Ice By Paul D. Miller Illustrated. 128 pages. Mark Batty Publisher ISBN: 987-1-9356131-4-5 $29.95
Carsten Höller: Experience
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by Emma S. Hazen LAB REPORT: Carsten Höller: Experience ABSTRACT The New Museum is a laboratory and its visitors are the test subjects with the current show, Carsten Höller: Experience. In this article, I present my current research on the subject, including discussion with the exhibition’s curator, Massimiliano Gioni. The museum will be conducting research … Read more
by Chris Heffernan Originally published in 1998 in Spain, Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez, now put out in paperback by Ecco, is a force of filth, and sensuality, of crime and poverty and the day by day fight not to overcome it but to simply survive it and move through its maze to … Read more
What Proust and the Priests Have To Do with the Poem Saint Genet by George Spencer
Posted by in Book Reviews | Essays - (Comments Off)What Proust and the Priests Have To Do with the Poem Saint Genet by George Spencer by Robert Mueller This is a response. Do not turn off your accelerators. The constitution of the self is a problem that will never go away, and it will never lack in aspects to explore for those … Read more
by Janet Bruesselbach Frieze is the fourth art fair I’ve tasked myself with reporting. I’m not sure how extensively I should discuss the parts of it that are the same as all other art fairs. There is some absurdity to traveling to London for it, considering that the majority of the galleries exhibiting there are … Read more
The 2011 Venice Biennale d’Arte a Tour in Three Parts by Lee Klein: Part 2
Posted by in Art Reviews - (Comments Off)….This (the) main exhibition titled” Illuminations” and curated by ” Bice Curiger was especially bright went it came to the Katarina Fritsch’s work in the garden area of the arsenale (not to be confused with the Giardini where the national pavillions are in another seperate enclosure) . Here in an outdoor waterside convergence four large and … Read more
Review of “The Inflorescence of the Sparkling Evil” by Jessie Mac
Posted by in Art Reviews | Reviews - (Comments Off)The Inflorescence of the Sparkling Evil “The Inflorescence of the Sparkling Evil” transcended primitive desires and needs through technological mediums including video-art-sculptures and graphic design. With these technological inventions human emotion becomes further removed from the physical, and rather, is expressed through the intangible screen. Evils … Read more
The Real Deal with Eve Packer by Jeff Grunthaner
Posted by in Book Reviews | Essays | Reviews - (Comments Off)The Real Deal with Eve Packer I can’t escape the thought that the title of Eve Packer’s latest poetry collection, new nails, refers to rusting metal, to the accretion of time gathering over old wounds. I recently had the chance to interview Eve, and she assured me that “nails” was meant in a cosmetic … Read more
