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Artist who collaborated with her husband La Monte Young on a series of installations aimed at flooding and altering the senses

Marian Zazeela, a Minimalist artist known for the 'Dream House' installation, has died at 83.

This is the Estonian-born, Mexico City-based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. In the work, themes of family, climate, and represe

The current production of Sontag:Reborn only begins to portray the complicated relationship between Susan Sontag and The Nation.

The cult favorite independent perfumer on earnesty, obsession, and her new Elizabeth Taylor-inspired fragrance.

KENNETH ANGER was an audacious filmmaker, a self-proclaimed magus, a never-closeted queer, a shameless scandalmonger, a sometime Satanist, a difficult person, and, as P. Adams Sitney put it, the “conscious artificer of his own myth.” He was also the King of Pop—at least that’s what I thought on first seeing Scorpio Rising (1963) in the mid-1960s, age sixteen, at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.There were other movies on that program; I remember being impressed by Gregory Markopoulos�...

Many of us have come to identify Trumpian America as a kind of mirror image of Jacksonian America of the 1830s. They both, for example, shared a common distrust of any form of expertise, aggressively insisting instead that all important functions are simple enough to be performed by any ordinary citizen. And above all, they both had a strong desire to overthrow whatever they thought represented the establishment. We’ve come to realize, I think, that large parts of the population harbor nati...

From Citizen Kane to Jaws and Avatar, these are the movies that changed cinema forever.

From Citizen Kane to Jaws and Avatar, these are the movies that changed cinema forever.

Thematically and stylistically, Storm de Hirschs Goodbye in the Mirror is a bizarre amalgam of films by Varda, Cassavetes, Akerman, Wishman, and a dozen other directors working across mainstream, independent, and avant-garde contexts.