Rubbing Elbows: The Criterion Collection’s “World of Wong Kar Wai”

By Anthony Hawley

MARCH 2021 | Film

The Criterion Collection's new box set assembles seven of the director's pivotal and recently restored works, occasioning a (re)encounter with the Hong Kong master’s cinema of longing and fragmentation.

The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader

By Megan N. Liberty

APRIL 2020 | Art Books

Including a full facsimile reproduction of Madeline Gins’s out-of-print 1969 novel WORD RAIN, as well as previously unpublished essays and poems, this collection illustrates Gins’s ability to capture the embodied experience of reading and celebrates her mastery as an experimental writer.

Through the Uncertainty, Agnes Borinsky and the Working Group for a New Spirit Are Taking Inventory of Our Lives

By Daniel Krane

NOV 2020 | Theater

How can we find assurance and community in our upside down world? It is an especially taxing effort for theater artists, whose work and livelihoods depend on collaboration and communion. Enter the Working Group for a New Spirit, playwright Agnes Borinsky’s free initiative that offers a virtual home for transient artists, seminars in how to take stock of our lives, and more. Daniel Krane dives into this effort—”a series of gatherings for clarity and direction in our messy moment of distance and collapse”—that the Bushwick Starr is hosting now through December 7.

Ethan Ryman: Series: Still Lives and Dioramas

By Phong Bui

DEC 21-JAN 22 | ArtSeen

Ethan Ryman’s exploration of his idiosyncratic idiom that lies in-between the functions of photography and sculpture is distinctly unique in that he is neither a photographer nor a sculptor. Yet, in his particular and singular pursuit in both practices Ryman appears to be singularly particular.