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Vince Aletti writes about how the photographs of Jay DeFeo, who painted “The Rose,” transformed her artistic practice.

The retrospective that MoMA has dedicated to the pop and conceptual work of the veteran artist is a triumph and one of the cultural events of the fall in New York

Jay DeFeo (1929–1989) and Bruce Conner (1933–2008) had that kind of telephone talk marathon a listener feels present at, despite time and place making such an experience impossible. It endures in its strangeness, having been imitated by a photograph of Conner’s telephone dial, to which Defeo responded by a sending of one of his body photos with the dial stuck on: about which he writes: “I had become the telephone.” But we hear it, savor it, and applaud Bruce Conner for memorializing it five years after her death.

“Carmen Argote: I won’t abandon you, I see you, we are safe," the artist's show at ICA LA, ruminates on the connective tissue between generations.

Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.