[r]Image by imp kerr[/r] Gender determines the shape of our fantasies. Good little boys are supposed to dream about changing the world, but good little girls are…

The extent to which the looks of women writers figures in appraisals of their skill indicates how thoroughly gendered the notion of “genius” remains

In the opening scene of Julia Leigh’s debut film Sleeping Beauty, Lucy (Emily Browning), our beautiful college-student protagonist, serves as a medical test subject. She leans her head back as the doctor slowly threads a tube down her throat, then fills a balloon in her chest with air while she holds the tube in place.

The painter’s generative conflict (and coif) lives on

The temptation to dismiss multimedia artist Laurel Nakadate as a wallowing narcissist, a sub-Jackass-level prankster, or an emotional terrorist is strong. She appears as all those things in the retrospective of her work at P.S. 1, inviting the audience’s contempt as well as their lascivious stares.