Tag Archive "movies"

New podcast – Matt Kalasky on science fiction movies, absurdity and starting an online arts magazine

Matt Kalasky spoke with us Oct 17 about his role as one of the founding editors of the new online arts journal, the The Nicola Midnight St. Claire (now temporarily called “The New, New Masses” – you can hear about that on their website). We also wanted to hear about his art, which takes the form of performance and video, often involving a large dose of science fiction or fantasy.  Matt graduated from Tyler with an MFA in sculpture in 2011 and even while a student he was in group exhibits in many venues in Philadelphia including Vox VI, the ...

“Flight” on the staircase – Liz Magic Laser’s flight of fancy in Times Square

“Flight,” a performance piece of scenes lifted from classic films, collaged and re-staged by Liz Magic Laser hits the great white way this weekend, or rather it lands on the red staircase in the heart of Times Square. The piece, originally performed at PS1 in 2010, has been refined to meet and respond to the parameters of this most theatrical of intersections and as one of the Times Square guides said to several tourists – “It’s a live show going on – It’s something different.”

Revolutions in the art of three women – at Vox

Just when you thought you had artists boxed up neatly and tied in a little bow, they force you to rethink them and their oeuvre. So it is this month at Vox Populi, with big shifts in the work on exhibit by three of the member artists–Leah Bailis, Kate Stewart and Kara Crombie.   Experimenting and changing course is not for everyone.  We are wowed at these risky shifts and wonder what comes next.

Are movies the new boudoir art?

Back when royal courts were major art purchasers, painters like Francois Boucher, Rubens and many others got to exercise their sexy muscle on behalf of their royal employers, painting titillating works based on mythology. Many of these erotic paintings (some specifically for the boudoir) now sit in major art museums around the world, a reminder that the erotic in art once had great appeal for patrons who liked a little (or a lot of) sensory pleasure in their paintings and sculpture. As Jonathan Jones said recently about old master paintings in Britain’s National Gallery: “A great painting can be shockingly ...