The Paris Review - Sentences We Loved This Summer
Featuring Henry Hoke, Elaine Dundy, Jack Skelley, Scott McClanahan, and more.
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Hal Foster on The Anti-Aesthetic - Artforum International
THE NOTION OF POSTMODERNISM was once a great stimulant to art and thought; today, it feels like another anti-aphrodisiac of the just past. In some ways, postmodernism seems more historical than modernism, reanimated as modernism is by questions of colonialism, diaspora, and globality. On the other hand, this untimeliness makes the present a good moment to look back at postmodernism, if only to measure our distance from it.The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, which I edited, was published forty years ago; it was quickly followed by Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation (
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Bette Gordon: 'I realised: Oh my God, it's a porn theatre! I was delighted' | Movies
The New York director’s 1983 film Variety used a real ‘adult’ cinema to turn around the male gaze. On its re-release, she explains her lifelong drive to push boundaries
Source: theguardian.com
5 things to watch this weekend – 11 to 13 August
A tomb-raiding treasure re-emerges thanks to Martin Scorsese, while an adult cinema is the setting for a 40-year-old feminist mystery.
Source: bfi.org.uk
Variety review – fierce feminist porn drama from the 80s New York underground
Bette Gordon’s fascinating 1983 film about a woman working in an adult movie theatre has a script by Kathy Acker and parts for Nan Goldin and Spalding Gray
Source: theguardian.com