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Peter Strausfeld, the Movie-Poster Master

Some deserving names, though, are still obscure, and that is why an exhibition at Poster House, on West Twenty-third Street, running until April 12th, is to be welcomed with gusto. Here,…

The In-demand Choreographer Turning Motion Into Story

“I think I can say more with my body than with words,” Puerto Rican choreographer Kiani del Valle declares at the outset of an hour-long conversation about her practice, her past struggles…

Jane Birkin and the Art of Authenticity

She was refreshingly unique, in a way that’s difficult to approximate today. She did not formulate her image to maximize clicks and likes and engagement. Yet, however much of Birkin’s…

Louise Bourgeois’s Art Can Still Enthrall

In recent years, Noche Flamenca, New York’s finest flamenco troupe, has been taking inspiration from the art of Francisco Goya. The company’s aesthetic of bare-bones authenticity and…

Erich von Stroheim’s Spectacular Art Is Back

As Steuben, Stroheim assumed a military bearing and status that he’d never approached in his actual Army days. The performance style that he thereby invented set the mold for most of his…

Tyler Mitchell’s Art-Historical Mood Board

Visually, Mitchell’s images are sumptuous, stylish, and seductive, channelling the old-school photographic glamour epitomized by Richard Avedon, one of Mitchell’s idols. Conceptually,…

In “Pluribus,” Groupthink Spells the End of Art

There are no working artists in Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus. Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), the show’s protagonist, used to be a successful romantasy novelist, but then a virus of unknown…

The Edge of Adolescence

Nineties teen counterculture, a trip to Universal Studios, and the modern American dream of perpetual childhood. Source link