Animal Love

At Alt Screen:

POPULAR LEGEND SAYS that Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby was a critical and commercial disaster on its first release—a reception that makes for a neatly ironic contrast to the film’s subsequent status as Golden Age classic...

Read More

Internet Connoisseurship

At Art21's blog:

Since the 60s, cinephilia—obsessive movie love—has proved to be a particularly popular, durable, and visible form of connoisseurship...

Read More

David Holzman's Diary

At Fandor:

“In Truth or Dare, there is a moment when Warren Beatty upbraids Madonna: ‘She doesn’t want to live off-camera,’ he says to the camera, and turns to her. ‘Why would you say something,’ he asks, ‘if it’s off-camera? Tomorrow, if they’re not here, what’s the point of existing...

Read More

Cory Arcangel

At Art21's Blog:

New media artist Nick Briz has defined a “new media one-liner” this way:

The new media one-liner is a sub-genre of new media art. Enthusiasts and practitioners of the new media one-liner are drawn to the practice by its “reference-pleasure.” Reference-pleasure refers to the satisfaction one receives from experiencing a new media one-liner whose “one-line” is a reference to some aspect of either Internet/digital culture or media arts history/critical theory...

Read More

Google Street View

At Art21's Blog:

In her essay “Certainties and Possibilities,” Janet Malcolm offers a brief genealogy of what she sees as a particularly American form of street photography. Malcolm starts by talking about European photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, and Brassaï, saying that these artists...

Read More