CYPRIEN GAILLARD — HUMPTY \ DUMPTY
At Lafayette Anticipations, to mark the last days of Cyprien Gaillard’s bifurcated exhibition HUMPTY / DUMPTY—also at Palais de Tokyo—theorist Jack Halberstam will present a talk on the aesthetic of collapse and the politics of deconstruction. And to close out
GODARD — GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE AT THE ACADEMY MUSEUM
Ring out the year with a rare screening of GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE / ADIEU AU LANGAGE, presented by the Academy Museum during the closing days of its “3D-cember!” program. Jean-Luc Godard’s penultimate feature and his only full-length work in 3D,
LIZ CRAFT — MS. AMERICA
Mounting predatory Pac-Man mouth/heads atop metal stands swaddled in black velvet and topped with a red bow, Liz Craft presents MS. AMERICA, a silent-scream insurrection, ripe for subjective ventriloquization.
JACK WHITTEN — COSMIC SOUL
Although the art writer and professor Richard Shiff didn't meet Jack Whitten until 2014—three years before the artist's death—the personal encounter proved critical to both Shiff’s practice and our understanding of Whitten's work. Over the past decade, with imaginative lucidity
WOMEN TALKING — CLAIRE FOY AND JESSIE BUCKLEY IN CONVERSATION
WOMEN TALKING—Sarah Polley's remarkable new feature—is set among the women and children of a Mennonite community in the immediate aftermath of a series of sexual assaults and violations against them. The victims—even a child was raped—wake from a drugged sleep
PATHETIC LITERATURE READINGS — EILEEN MYLES AND COMPANY
Stop by the Poetic Research Bureau this weekend for the Los Angeles launch of PATHETIC LITERATURE, a selection of over 125 texts edited by Eileen Myles—poems, narrative excerpts, essays, ranging from works by Alice Notley and Robert Glück to CAConrad
JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI — EO
In her essay “A Century of Cinema,” Susan Sontag addresses a second Golden Age of film which began in the mid-1950s and lasted nearly two decades, when “vanguard ideas took hold again”—mostly in Europe and Asia—and “a dazzling number of
