by Meg Onli | Jul 21, 2009 | Blog
This week’s pick is a 3 part documentary entitled Situationist International via artstar11 “A video documentary combining exhibition footage of the Situationist International exhibitions with film footage of the 1968 Paris student uprising, and graffiti...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 20, 2009 | Blog
You know, like Julian Schnabel-bashing was back in the day, before he started directing? I’m thinking yes. The unkindness of it all aside (and that makes for a very big aside, I know), Peyton does inspire some of the most deliciously evil descriptive sentences...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 20, 2009 | Blog
I’m back with fresh harangues! I haven’t found any truly worthy candidates in awhile but yesterday the Chicago architecture critic Lynn Becker posted a screed that pleased me greatly in its justifiable outrage. One of Chicago’s last 24-hour...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 20, 2009 | Blog
“Let the Televised Bitch-Slapping Begin!” (marshallastor.com).
by Meg Onli | Jul 17, 2009 | Blog
It has felt like a rather slow week for art news. Here are some of the stories you might have missed this week via our twitter page. On this weeks roundup you will find Japan’s bad ass million dollar, robot flying Spiderman, the history of the pubic wig, and...
by laurenvallone | Jul 16, 2009 | Blog
Food, Inc., by director Robert Kenner, made me feel stupid. It reminded me of every reason why I loved Our Daily Bread, of 2006. Our Daily Bread exercised subtly and restraint, with very still, bleak vignettes of the monstrous places that produce the food we eat...