EX MACHINA: THE DIRECTOR’S DECISIONS
Is Director Alex Garland aware of how he abuses Kyoko and the impressions that the abuse leaves in the viewer?
Student Work: Criticism
ANA MENDIETA: PERFORMING VIOLENCE
Mendieta’s work is a call to neither only empathy nor only imagination; it implicates the audience as both co-agents and co-artists through participation.
The Rebirth of the Dandy as Art Collector
The art industry is currently controlled and manipulated by the modern day “dandy” and their hunger for conspicuous consumption.
THE BUTCHER’S WIFE AND THE CAVIAR
a compromise between the conscious and unconscious brought about in a situation in which something desired is out of reach
DING LING’S FEMINISM
Through writing and political activism, Ding questioned the ways in which China's State and Party demanded that she flatten her ideologies and personhood to fit cleanly within a single, legible identity: the model socialist woman.
BISHOP’S VISIONARY SEASCAPES
"The Bight" and "The End of March" cast light upon an invisible line that connects Elizabeth Bishop's earlier work to her later work.
PAUL SCHRADER’S ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC
How First Reformed fights climate change by paying homage to Andrei Tarkovsky and Hieronymus Bosch
DRAG RACE CULTURE
Mainstream drag culture in 2018 could not be further removed from the art form’s roots. How did we get here?
WHITEWASHING ANTIQUITY
Despite the fact that ancient Greeks would most certainly have found white marble sculptures to be ugly and bare, scholars have chosen to perpetuate the idea that white marble was/is the pinnacle of Grecian beauty in art.
AWKWARD PASTS, ODD FUTURES
Eight years after the release of Tyler, The Creator's "Yonkers," the skateboarding teenagers from Ladera Heights, who liked eating roaches and pissing off authority, are cited as one of the most influential groups of the decade.
THE ENNOBLING POWER OF LOVE
Marie de France explores Capellanus’s ideal of the ennobling power of love but does not appear to subscribe to it unconditionally.