Join The New Inquiry at The Rubin Museum this Friday, April 13 at 9:30pm for a screening of Charlie Chaplin's classic and controversial film, The Great Dictator…
The bad science about ovulating strippers, Hitler as shampoo spokesman, Passover manicure, and defining women's bodies by their relationship to change.
Beyond Cossery's stylish ironies, we glimpse a country seething in poverty and malfeasance and, like the concrete buildings his narratives are usually set in, perpetually on the verge of collapse. In fact, it is seems as if only the totality of this corruption is keeping the country together, an adhesive of turpitude permeating every social
Hollywood doesn't mind having its denizens manipulate their body size to fit a role. So when a film calls for an underfed-looking performer and doesn't order a liquid diet, it sends a message.
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.