“Surrealism Beyond Borders”
Friend of the Gutter Kate Laity reports on “Surrealism Beyond Borders.” “Look: together for the first time since they were last exhibited: Varo’s triptych. And Rahon! And Colqhoun! And Cahun! And Deren — and so much.”
A Hero is a Goddamn Stupid Thing to Have: Todd Haynes’s The Velvet Underground and the Dismantling of the Rock Doc
This week’s Guest Star is Nick Hanover. He writes about Todd Hayne’s documentary, The Velvet Underground (2021). ~~~ Before the Austin Film Society premiere screening of Todd Haynes’s The Velvet Underground, giddy fanboy/celebrated indie auteur Richard Linklater warned the audience this would not be your “typical music documentary […]
From The Archives: Cahiers du Cannon: Street Smart
This month we share Guest Star Jessica Ritchey’s entry into her series, Cahiers du Cannon. Previously, Jessica wrote about Castaway and Runaway Train. This month she looks at Christopher Reeve in Street Smart (1987). Until Batman V Superman disgraced itself in theaters the most reviled Superman property was […]
Henry Ford meets Jim Henson: “The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited”
I heard industrial pa-chunking before I even entered the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Across the street from the museum is the Ford Development Center, where Ford Motor Company does research on new vehicles and “mobility solutions.” The center first opened in 1953 and was designed by […]
“The Lesbian Pulp Fiction That Saved Lives”
At Atlas Obscura, Natasha Frost writes about the Lesbian pulp fiction of the 1950s and 1960s and interviews writers Ann Bannon and Katherine V. Forrest.
Chekov’s The Seagull in Sims
Helen Shaw considers Celine Song’s staging of Chekov’s The Seagull in Sims 4. “I kept trying to work out why the show, which was often extremely goofy, succeeded so much at enveloping me, in a way that other interactive and virtually ‘immersive’ shows have not. I think Song’s […]
The Cultural Gutter 