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#OWS: Images from the
Day of Eviction (11/15) and the Day of Action (11/17)
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
Below the Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico
By Liz HirschDEC 17-JAN 18 | ArtSeen
Below the Underground, one of the many exhibitions included in the robust and multifaceted Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA series of programs supported by the Getty Foundation, stands out for its emphasis on feminist and anti-corporate strategies explored by artists in Mexico in the 1990s.
ACTION MOVIES
“Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power”
By Michael Joshua Rowin
FEB 2017 | Film
An old chestnut—no less true for being old, nor a chestnut—has it that an effective political cinema cannot merely represent radical political movements, issues, or events, but must render them through forms that are themselves radically political.
Legacy in Action: Pharoah Sanders
By Vilde AaslidFEB 2017 | Music
When jazz legends grace the bandstand, it’s tempting to hope for an experience of time travel. Who among jazz fans hasn’t imagined themselves into the clubs of the music’s storied golden age?
Every Situation Calls for Its Own Language: Gilberto Perez′s The Eloquent Screen
By Nicholas ForsterOCT 2019 | Film
The process of identification is at the heart of Gilberto Perez’s posthumously published book The Eloquent Screen: A Rhetoric of Film. Perez writes that audiences identify with more than characters, “we identify with an action, a situation, an emotion, a motive, an interest, a point of view, something the character represents.”
