Film
Don’t fill your summer culture calendar with art and music alone—there’s plenty of awesome performances to check out, too.
Go behind the scenes with ten obsessive filmmakers, including Ed Harris, Todd Haynes, Alfred Hitchcock, Ennio Morricone, and Hilary Swank.
Impress your friends at Yoko Ono’s mini-retrospective in London.
Whenever Ferzan Özpetek returns to his native Istanbul, he’s greeted as a hero.
Turks are intensely proud of their heritage. But on my recent trip to Istanbul, we were encouraged to forget the past and look only at the present.
If you hated Prometheus, spend some time with the myth and its many appearances in art history!
In anticipation of her upcoming installation at MoMA, Spectacle Theater is screening three of Martha Rosler’s famed video works from the ’70s and ’80s.
The new documentary Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present is a backstage look at the artist’s career-crowning MoMA retrospective, down to the emergency toilet hidden in the chair she sat in, without moving, 7.5 hours per day – 736 hours and 30 minutes in all – over the course of the exhibition.
Watch Wu-Tang’s GZA perform all the songs from Liquid Swords, catch a screening of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, and peek inside the studios of more than a hundred area artists in the eight-day extravaganza known as Brooklyn’s Northside Festival.
Central Park’s mammoth annual music fest kicks off this week, and it’s the place to be for free, awesome music throughout the summer.
Chiara Clemente’s film series, Beginnings, shrewdly delves into the origins of creative lives. From Yoko Ono to Christian Louboutin, the shorts are deeply personal and specific, yet provide insight into the equally distinctive abilities and motivations of the viewer.
Famous actor and shameless dilettante James Franco has made short work of his art career since his first solo show only two years ago at Clocktower Gallery. His latest project at LA MOCA is based on Nicholas Ray’s classic 1955 film Rebel Without A Cause.
