Edouard Vuillard, Interior with Red Bed, 1893, oil on cardboard Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life Phillips Collection, Washington DC October 26, 2019-January 26, 2020 “I don’t…
This is a five paragraph essay about the five positions • This essay will explain something • in particular how dancer-choreographer Simone Forti inserted the personal in her work but…
Installation shot, The Fulfillment Center at the Black Cube Headquarters, 2019; image courtesy of the artists and Black Cube. Photo: Third Dune Productions Fetishizing the warehouse in America feels like…
The Gotham City of Joker exists in a sort of 1980s purgatory. By design, the film never explicitly dates itself beyond the Carter- and Reagan-era cars and television sets dotting…
A List by John Purcell It is difficult to make a definitive list of Los Angeles films so this is a work in progress. There are too many…
Nuri İyem, a prominent Turkish painter (1915-2005), is best known for painting sad faces and Anatolian migrants. These were his signature themes. İyem’s good friend, the famous Turkish author Ahmet…
Here’s one thing. A man or sheep or meadow. Here’s another thing. A bell, a word, a drug. Because they coincide, somehow sharing space and time, they address and respond…
I am the wound that does not heal, the small solar stone: strike me, and the world will go up in flames. Had I not stolen that book, I most…
Jocelyn Ho Jocelyn Ho met me at a coffee shop in the Pico-Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles. She ordered herself a cookie and a tea, then sat down across from…
Selected by Dan Ubick Continuing Entropy’s Column of Iconic Lists from American Cities, this edition is 25 Iconic Los Angeles Records as Selected by Dan Ubick. Editor’s Note:…
This summer marks the 15th anniversary of Napoleon Dynamite, a film so unique and divisive that computer scientists now use the term, “Napoleon Dynamite problem” to describe the difficulty of predicting an eccentric…
Theatre always felt a little hokey to me. Part of this is due to my own artistic bias; for most of my life I played the viola and moved within…
Fujiko Nakaya, Fog x FLO, Jamaica Pond, 2018 (courtesy of The Emerald Necklace Conservancy; photo by Melissa Ostrow) There is a game all children play. You lie on your back…
There was nothing to do but climb. The turquoise sky was immeasurable above the yuyuga tree, slim branches swaying and bending with heavy fruit. At ten years old, waking life…