Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome A few years ago I discovered the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD and the Royal Opera House’s Live Cinema Season programs, which revolutionized my enjoyment of opera.…
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How has the pandemic has changed theater, aside from the obvious fact that live audiences are currently forbidden? At this point it’s impossible for plays to rehearse. People cannot gather…
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“Hands,” Leonardo Rizzi, Creative Commons When I attended Mass Before, the priest told us a few things: 1) If we were taking Communion, we could not allow the officiants to…
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“AIDS is not over, sickness will never be over, care will always be needed. Moving towards justice means learning how to care from the past and present going forward.” –…
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still from the film Rosas Danst Rosas, directed by Stefaan Decostere These days everyone in my life seems to have an obsession: wormeries, reusable tissues, queer Tinder bios in rural…
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ArtCultureFilmA Black Feminist’s Response to Trump’s Question: “Can We Get Gone with the Wind Back, Please?”
The novel and film Gone with the Wind is a huge footnote in the history of America’s Jim Crow era. Among its main characters are Ashley Wilkes, once a southern…
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photo detail from Dustin Yellin’s Psychogeography Series, an installation for New York City Ballet, 2015 Broadway went dark, companies canceled seasons, studios shut down operations, theaters closed. For an artist,…
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Interior, 1939, Vanessa Bell © 1961 estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy Henrietta Garnett. Photo credit: Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service) The minute I expected the view from my window to…
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Untitled – When I put my hands on your body, Wojnarowicz, 1990 “There are so many strangers crying in England these days…” Filmmaker Derek Jarman says in his classic memoir,…
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SELF, 1987 Crime and Punishment, the title of Peter Saul’s retrospective at the New Museum, is fitting. His art is all culpability and implication, no restorative justice, hardly even a…
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The Poetry Vlog is nurturing a community of poets in ways that has never been done before. I had the chance to sit down and chat with poet, scholar, and…
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May Picture, Paul Klee, 1925 . . . the act and the potential in the space of the event, in the event-ness of the event. —Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx…
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The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel The Elder, 1563 Thomas Bernhard isn’t the subject of this essay. His style is—the tools he employs; the repetition; the bizarre speech markers; the…
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Burnt Umber and Ultramarine, 1989 I The initial feeling is one of recognition, then puzzlement. You feel as if you have come across these images before—in another museum, perhaps, or…
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