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On Lessons From August Wilson’s Jitney
at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles By Seren Sensei Jitney ran for a limited revival at the Mark Taper Forum prior to the quarantines that recently swept through L.A. County. A protective measure...
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Miraculous And Peculiar: Gerhard Richter’s Solemn Retrospective, Painting...
at Met Breuer, NYC (through 5 July 2020) Reviewed by Peter Schjeldahl The New Yorker “Birkenau.” The dread name—of the main death facilities at Auschwitz—entitles four large abstract paintings and four...
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LA’s Lynn and John Tejada, Reggie Watts and Wajatta
La Corona | Connecting the Community | LA LA Power-Couple Extraordinaire, Lynn and John Tejada, along with John’s collaborative cohort, Reggie Watts, make up a loose team of artists and publicists...
View ArticleJazz in LA: Arturo and Adam O’Farrill, Live From Culver City
The Live Show: Arturo and Adam O’Farrill, 28 March 2020 Please scroll to 8 minutes into the video above; technical setup prior . Riot Material is proud to present, and stream live this evening,...
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Now All The Plagues That In The Pendulous Air Hang Fated O’er Men’s Faults
by Emma Smith The New York Times Plague erased social, gender and personal differences. Shakespeare responded by emphasizing people’s unique and inerasable difference. His work is a narrative vaccine....
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In Memory of Genesis P-Orridge: “Hamburger Lady”
From Throbbing Gristle’s D.o.A: The Third and Final Report Hamburger Lady ♠ Genesis Breyer P-Orridge 1950 – 2020 . Live from Turin, 29 June 2005 Godspeed! The post In Memory of Genesis P-Orridge:...
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John Bradford: By Land And By Sea
at Anna Zorina Gallery, NYC (through 25 April — view this exhibition online at annazorinagallery.com) Reviewed by Arabella Hutter von Arx “For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not...
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Moving Room To Room, Tentacle By Tentacle: Michael McCall’s Long Strange Trip
By Peter Frank Forward to: Captain Squid & The Tentacle Room: Adventures in Life, Love & Art by Michael McCall Fabrik Press, 260 pp., $35.00 Michael McCall came of age at a time when it was...
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Dr. Cornel West Speaks Black Prophetic Fire
An always-welcomed dose of Cornel West, who is the focus of Arturo O’Farrill’s The Cornel West Concerto, a timely recording to be released this week. O’Farrill is onstage tonight with Jacques Lesure...
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The Exploratory Instincts Of Shabaka And The Ancestors’ We Are Sent Here By...
on Impulse! Records Reviewed by Henry Cherry Shabaka Hutchings, the London based musician behind The Comet is Coming and Sons of Kemet, had just released a second recording with his South African...
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Romare Bearden And The Collapse Of Worlds Into Fabulant Forms
Reviewed by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden by Mary Schmidt Campbell Oxford University Press, 443 pp., $34.95 . The Romare Bearden Reader edited by Robert...
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The Unbound Promise Of The Full Five-Hour Masterwork Until The End Of The World
by Henry Cherry Until the End of the World is a film, like the best of them, that stands outside of genre. Part sci-fi epoch, part love story, part road movie, it begins and ends with an image of the...
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The Coronation, The Relinquishing Of Fear And The Way As A Species Forward
The Coronation by Charles Eisenstein For years, normality has been stretched nearly to its breaking point, a rope pulled tighter and tighter, waiting for a nip of the black swan’s beak to snap it in...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino Pure Cinema Podcast
Elric, Brian, Phil and Jules are joined remotely by Quentin Tarantino himself for an epic discussion about a great feature on the New Beverly website called “Tarantino’s Reviews” where QT has been...
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Charles Eisenstein On “The Coronation” And An Epidemic of Control
Interview by David Fuller Charles Eisenstein is one of the most celebrated writers and speakers about the intersection of systems change and personal growth, in his books including Sacred Economics and...
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A Gathering Of Ruins: Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus
in Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London by Zadie Smith Kara Walker: Hyundai Commission edited by Clara Kim Tate Publishing, 144pp., $24.95 New York Review of Books Two women are bound at the waist, tied...
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Abandoned To The Voice In My Head: King Krule’s Man Alive!
on XL Recordings/Matador Records Reviewed by Henry Cherry Archy Ivan Marshall is a 25-year-old musician who performs under the nom de guerre King Krule. As Krule, he has delivered a stunning portrait...
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Reckoning Race in Eudora Welty’s Photographs
by James McWilliams Two portraits; two men. Both are from 1930s Mississippi. The men are situated together, photos 22 and 23, both from Eudora Welty’s only published book of photographs, simply titled...
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The Painter and The Thief Offers The Best Kind Of True-Crime Bait-And-Switch
Reviewed by Kristy Puchko Is there a word for cinema that lures you in with a dark promise, then delivers something profound, surprising, and humane instead? When I first saw the trailer for The...
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Dr. Cornel West Speaks Black Prophetic Fire
An always-welcomed dose of Cornel West, who is the focus of Arturo O’Farrill’s The Cornel West Concerto, a timely recording to be released this week. O’Farrill is onstage tonight with Jacques Lesure...
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