After completing An Elephant Sitting Still, his first and only film, director Hu Bo tragically committed suicide in October 2017 at the age of 29. In many ways, the movie could be viewed as an ominous cry for help, an accomplished piece of cinema that resonates louder than its seemingly modest premise. It’s also an ambitious movie: clocking in at […]
Larrie in Miami: Bailey Scieszka and Ashley Teamer
Larrie, the New York art venue that curates shows by artists with a strong feminist bend, is relocating to Miami for a short pop-up residency during the upcoming Art Basel. At NADA in Miami, Larrie will present a selection of works by Ashley Teamer and Bailey Scieszka whose practices vividly target the seductive and oftentimes disturbing elements and historical undercurrents […]
Sadie Laska
Written by Alexa Carrasco It’s Sunday and Sadie Laska is in Forrest Hills, Queens. An average day finds her traversing the city, between Forrest Hills, Chinatown, and Industry City, carrying art supplies for either herself or an artist she works for, playing drums in her band I.U.D, going to art shows, painting. “I’m a painter and I can be a […]
Gimhongsok: On View
Throughout his prolific career, Korean visual artist Gimhongsok has built an oeuvre that spans performance, sculpture, video and installations. His work has been described as both ‘comedic’ and ‘provocative.’ At Tina Kim Gallery, the artist focuses on his latest sculptural output. Spanning two sets of works, the exhibit, titled “Dwarf, Dust, Doubt,” includes works from Gimhongsok’s series “Untitled (Short People)” […]
Adrienne Lenker – ‘symbol’
Adrianne Lenker, frontwoman of Big Thief, is not averse to lowercase. Subscribing to the no-capitals memo is the title of her solo album, abyskiss, which she released on October 5, and all of the tracks on it, including the second single, ‘symbol.’ ‘symbol,’ out this week, features Lenker’s familiar hushed-murmur delivery, which she pairs up with densely-packed fingerpicked guitar harmonies, […]
Caniba
Cinematically, exploring the mind of a murderer has always been attempted with a proverbial veil of safe distance between the subject and the uncomfortable matter at hand. Directors Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor attempt no such thing. Their latest movie, Caniba, is an unapologetically uncomfortable feature-length monologue by a murderer, about his murder. Delivered by Issei Sagawa, who in 1981 […]
Millie Brown
Written by Elisabeth Sherman In March of 2014, a video popped up online—and then quickly went viral—capturing a Lady Gaga concert, in which the singer invites the performance artist Millie Brown to join her on the stage. Gaga bangs wildly on her drum set, and screams “I don’t play by your fucking rules! This is our world!” as Brown pulls […]
Molly Soda
Written by Egor Alters Digital artist Molly Soda needs no introduction: with over 65k Instagram followers, Soda has become the darling of a new generation of uber-connected millenials that has come of age alongside social media. Her projects—occasionally crude, always personal—speak of Soda’s self-awareness, but also of her desire to connect with her audience on a visceral level. Earlier this year, she debuted Should I Send This?, a digital project of self-leaked nudes. It went […]
Hozier
Written by Sara Tardiff It’s the evening after being named VH1’s Art¬ist of the Year and Andrew Hozier-Byrne, known by the mononym Hozier, seems unfazed. Not with lack of elation, but he is almost un¬touched by the reality of it. With a year on the road, Byrne is walking away with a handful of chart-topping songs, a Grammy nomination, and […]