Did advertisements help create “the visual language of modernism”?
Did advertisements help create “the visual language of modernism”? At The Met, Julia Curl reviews The Real Thing, an exhibition that bridges commercial photography and the avant-garde in the ’20s and ’30s. In the Bronx, Alexis Clements reviews two shows at Wave Hill that cast a critical eye on our fantasy of nature. Our critic Dan Schindel spotlights Hollywoodgate screening at IFC Center and a new film series on adapting and transforming reenactments at Anthology Film Archives. Also this week, we take a closer look at New York City icons Ted Carey and Florine Stettheimer. | |
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| | | The late artist’s work subverts the genre’s conventions in its centering of the gay community members he knew or admired and the LGBTQ+ spaces he frequented. | Maya Pontone |
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SCREENING ACROSS THE CITY | | | | Hollywoodgate at IFC Center | “Not long after the last US forces left [Afghanistan], filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at entered the country. In an impressive coup of access, he managed to become embedded with Taliban forces, spending a year watching them transition from insurgency back to governance. The result is the documentary Hollywoodgate (2023).” |
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| | | Verbatim at Anthology Film Archives | “Verbatim, a new screening series at Anthology Film Archives, brings together over a dozen films that incorporate firsthand recordings or documentation of conversations and speeches. The films showcase how different artists have used this conceit, preserving dialogue and audio but playing with every other element. ” |
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