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The film director helped populate the Internet with sad girls and elevate the cultural allure of feminine ennui. Has she put pop culture in a gilded cage?
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The unsung godmother of so-called “sad girl” music — and one of pop’s most wrenching chroniclers of feminized pain — has long been misunderstood.
'The New Female Antihero' explores how misogyny undermines television's strong female antiheros and how that, in turn, stunts our culture's ability to embrace feminism.
This week, the editors feature Michael Corris’s February 1995 “Openings” on Tracey Emin, which first introduced Artforum’s readers to her notorious work. In the magazine’s current issue, writer Audrey Wollen illuminates the opposing realities captured in Emin’s video Why I Never Became a Dancer, which the artist happened to make the same year as her debut in the pages of Artforum.A story does not have to be true to be believed, but note how often true stories told by women are received as fictions—and unnecessary, even extravagant ones at that. “Given long-standing cultural pre...