#KenyaRefuses
#KenyaRefuses is a carnival of transgressive Kenyan voices mapping out their rejection of both the premises and the outcome of Kenya’s March 2013 election.
A Summer Fête: The New Inquiry's First Annual Summer Benefit
The New Inquiry and the Gihon Foundation invite you to our first annual summer benefit.
Interiors - The Shining
The audience is immediately presented with this space is detached from civilization; there are only a handful of scenes that take place outside of the walls over the hotel. It’s within this controlled space that Kubrick sets his film....
We're All Friends Here @ WORD, Brooklyn
Emily Cooke and Sarah Leonard of The New Inquiry join Elizabeth Gumport of n+1 for a discussion of Mary McCarthy and her vicious satire, The Oasis, which lampooned the literary…
Vol. 17 Editors' Note: Rules of the Game
The ultimate game is revolution: new rules, no rules.
Interiors - Martha Marcy May Marlene
There is no clear sense of time in the farmhouse. There are no clocks or calendars in this space...
Vol. 16 Editors' Note: The World as We Know It
It's the rise of the world as we know it, and we feel terrified.
Spring Break Forever
Presenting The New Inquiry's first free supplement, a pdf collection of eight critical essays on Harmony Korine's Disneyland dystopia Spring Breakers.
Interiors - Il Conformista
To understand Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970), it’s essential to understand the history of the EUR district in Rome and its deep ties with fascism...
Weed Launch Screening @ Spectacle
Join Spectacle and the New Inquiry in celebration of TNI’s new Weed issue with a screening of a surprise, unannounced movie. TNI Vol. 15: Weed takes…
TNI Vol. 15 Editorial Note: The National Conversation
America is going to have to be as stoned as hell for the national conversation about weed.
Geek Love, 4/1
Join The New Inquiry and a host of editors, publishers, and publicists for an April Fools Day Lit Crawl at the PowerHouse Arena. "Lit Crawl…
The Clock
For TNI Vol. 14: Time, both Sarah Nicole Prickett and Masha Tupitsyn wrote reflections on Christina Marclay's 24-hour film, The Clock. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Biennale, The Clock is a supercut of clips from films in which the characters are talking about or alluding to the time, it runs synced
EMP Pop Conference @ NYU 4/18-19
The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and the Department of Performance studies at NYU's Tisch School of Arts are proud producers of the 2013…
Change The Mood @ Glasslands 3/22
On Friday March 22nd at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn, Dutty Artz presents Change The Mood: The Empire Never Ended. Matt Shadetek will perform material from his album The…
Interiors - Up
Up consists of various visual metaphors – including the notion that the protagonist attaches balloons onto his house and flies to the skies, visualizing his desire for reuniting with his deceased wife.