LIZA LOU — DESIRE LINES
I find it really helpful to not be very logical. I think that as an artist, it's been so useful to live in my head and my world of making. I'm always interested in how we keep our morale as creative
CENTROPY — A FILM BY DEANA LAWSON
On the occasion of her Guggenheim exhibition CENTROPY—now in its final weeks in New York— Deana Lawson conceived an eponymously titled short film, now available to stream. Touching on the “personal histories and thematic structures that inflect the installation in the
THE SOUVENIR PART II — JOANNA HOGG AND HONOR SWINTON BYRNE IN CONVERSATION
There is really a point where I don’t know what was real and what isn’t. So it’s a real confusion of fact and fiction, and I enjoy that dance, but there are essential things that are true. I was talking
IN BALANCHINE’S CLASSROOM
For George Balanchine, the American ballet world was a blank slate. Arriving in New York in 1933 at the behest of patron Lincoln Kirstein—co-founder, with Balanchine, of the School of American Ballet (1934) and the New York City Ballet (1948)—the choreographer
BRUCE LABRUCE — SAINT-NARCISSE
Dropping like a Hammer Film Production from the 1970s or an errant episode of Dark Shadows, Bruce LaBruce’s new SAINT-NARCISSE takes the titular myth to its queer conclusion when long lost twin brothers Dominic and Daniel—the former a leather-clad biker,
IN CONVERSATION WITH MERCE
As part of Baryshnikov Arts Center’s September programming, stream IN CONVERSATION WITH MERCE through the end of the month. The presentation includes a restaging of Merce Cunningham’s LANDROVER (1972) as well as the world premieres of two works created in
LITA ALBUQUERQUE ON ART AND TRANSCENDENTALISM
“We are in a time of expanded perception where we are shifting from a perspective that is human to one of the human in the cosmos.” — Lita Albuquerque. Speaking “on time as a physical dimension and how her work
HILTON ALS — GET LIFTED!
Collectively, these seminal artists had a profound effect on American culture from the 1940s on. Their work is a testament to the ecstatic and to how the ecstatic impulse can change not only art but the society that produces it.
ST. VINCENT AND CARRIE BROWNSTEIN — THE NOWHERE INN
THE NOWHERE INN—a meta-documentary devised by Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstein—finds the close friends on tour, Clark as herself and her musical persona St. Vincent and Brownstein as a film director looking for the story, any story, behind the songs. As
JUMATATU M. POE AND JERMONE DONTE BEACHAM — LET ’IM MOVE YOU
This month, jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham will perform iterations of their LET ’IM MOVE YOU series on the West Coast. Drawn from their research into J-Sette—“a performance style popular in the southern United States, practiced widely among majorettes