Publicado por Jordi Bernal Hablar de Solovkí es poner el dedo en la llaga de los nostálgicos marxistas (perdón por el pleonasmo) que todavía creen que el estalinismo instauró un régimen de terror desviándose de los fundamentos de la revolución bolchevique de octubre de 1917. A Stalin se le acusa de la perversión de un ideal comunista que quiso asaltar… More Solovkí: el infierno helado

Agnès Varda, conhecida como a mãe da Nouvelle Vague, completaria 93 anos neste domingo, 30 de maio VITÓRIA CAMPOS (SOB SUPERVISÃO DE YOLANDA REIS) PUBLICADO EM 30/05/2021, ÀS 14H00 “O cinema é minha casa, acho que sempre vivi nele,” disse a cineasta Agnès Varda, considerada uma das principais figuras da história do cinema, e a mãe do… More Relembre a trajetória de Agnès Varda, uma das maiores cineastas da história

By Christopher Bollen “Being young is a kind of warfare in which the great enemy is experience.” This line appears in the first paragraph of Andrew O’Hagan’s latest novel, Mayflies, and it grips you roughly by the throat. It’s the kind of beautiful and audacious sentence that has cemented the reputation of the 52-year-old Scottish writer, who… More Novelist Andrew O’Hagan’s New- Wave Ode to Youth and Friendship

By Steven Phillips-Horst and Eric Schwartau Photographed by Talk Hole Talk Hole is the bi-weekly spoken column of New York’s alt-comedy darlings Eric Schwartau and Steven Phillips-Horst, offering their oracular powers of cultural analysis on all corners of the zeitgeist (high, low, top, bottom). From a Zoom call in Brooklyn, Schwartau and P-H (as Steven is lovingly referred) prove talk is chic and drop… More Talk Hole: Virtue & Vice

By Ernesto Macias Photographed by Nio Vardan Ever since Symone and Gottmik entered the zeitgeist with their now legendary run on RuPaul’s Drag Race, the two queens have been on a meteoric rise to superstardom. Not that they need any gassing up; Symone was crowned queen supreme of the show’s 13th season, and Gottmik was a close runner-up—remember… More Symone and Gottmik Deliver Sensual Seduction in Baja East’s Campaign

By Ernesto Macias Misha Kahn and Dries van Noten are two visual explorers hailing from different generations and mediums—one transforms furniture into acid-tinted creatures that are nearly unidentifiable as home decor, the other turns clothing into wearable abstract art. With their shared surrealist vision of the world, it only makes sense that the 62-year-old Belgian fashion designer and the… More Misha Kahn and Dries van Noten Create “Organized Craziness”

GALLERY WALKTHROUGH By Ella Huzenis At Pedro Pedro’s latest exhibition at The Hole in Tribeca, you’ll find eight new still life paintings overflowing with unexpected objects. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner—plus used cutlery, art supplies, medicine cabinet staples, and other odds and ends—are piled anarchically onto wooden surfaces, as if the artist just emptied his refrigerator, purse, and pockets onto… More The Scintillating Messes of Pedro Pedro

By Interview Happy 4/20 (and Happy Taurus Season) to all those who celebrate. We certainly do. Since asking a NYC dealer how his business has been impacted from COVID-19, to surveying various New Yorkers on marijuana legalization years before Cuomo made our dreams a reality, we now present a stoned watchlist for your viewing pleasure. Below, we asked the Interview editors to… More The Interview Editors on the Best Movies to Watch While Stoned

By Interview May 27, 2021 Welcome to Life Lessons. This week, we revisit some admittedly out of context highlights from two interviews with the punk icon Iggy Pop: first in November 1986, then in April 1990. Grab a mic, take your shirt off—you just might learn a thing or two.  ——— “I don’t think I’m lucky; I… More Life Lessons from Iggy Pop

By Ernesto Macias May 28, 2021 This is Nice to Meet You, for all your need-to-know information on the need-to-get-to-know new voices in pop culture. Think of it as a blind date, if the date were cooler than anyone you’ll probably ever go out with. Allow us to break the ice; we promise you’ll fall in love. Bad Gyal… More Bad Gyal on Lil’ Kim’s Legacy and The Power of “Pussy”

Attempting to interrogate its own lens, the documentary Stop Filming Us mixes sharp insights with disappointing shortcomings.by Yasmina Price2 hours agoPrint Support Hyperallergic’s independent arts journalism. Become a Member » The film begins with a Congolese man opening a camera case and turning over its contents. This shot, which could easily be read as a symbolic shorthand for the technology… More Western Films About Africa Are Neocolonial Even When They Try Not to Be

Why do these portraits almost always fall short of being lively or authentic? by Filippo Lorenzin2 hours agoPrint Support Hyperallergic’s independent arts journalism. Become a Member » “A Masterpiece From Your Photos.” This is the promise made by AI Gahaku, one of the most popular artificial intelligence engines trained to generate images that resemble old paintings using our own… More Why Do AI-generated Portraits Fail at Realism?