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“Jass” As It Was Written

“Jass” As It Was Written

The Sanctuary — a dimly lit Chicago nightclub where jazz, blues, and poetry collided — was a pivotal place in the movie Love Jones, where a young poet named Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) attempts to woo Nina Mosley (Nia Long), an aspiring photographer.

Ryan Anderson

27 Sep 2024 · 3 min read

Megalopolis Brings Arthouse To Cinemark

Megalopolis Brings Arthouse To Cinemark

The lights dimmed in a movie theater Thursday night for maybe the most prime example of an arthouse film to come along this year, and together the audience watched as Cesar Catilina, played by Adam Driver, edged out of his office window to stand on a metal ledge at the edge of a skyscraper...

Brian Slattery

27 Sep 2024 · 1 min read

“These Things Are Like Yeast”: 50 Years On, New College Artists Remain Collective

“These Things Are Like Yeast”: 50 Years On, New College Artists Remain Collective

Once, when I was a young, bright-eyed MFA student, a professor told the class to “look to the left of you. Look to the right of you. You should know that only one in five of you will still be making art in five years time. As the years go on, it will be even less.”

Vita Hewitt

26 Sep 2024 · 4 min read

The Perks Of Being The Wallflowers

The Perks Of Being The Wallflowers

I don’t think “ordinary” is pejorative. Without at least some artists finding contentment as part of a greater tradition, what would happen to jazz or ballet or opera?

Becky Carman

26 Sep 2024 · 4 min read

The Trees Are Alive

The Trees Are Alive

In the short film Dendrostalkers, the view is from the driver’s seat of a car curving along a dirt road through a forest at night.

Brian Slattery

26 Sep 2024 · 2 min read

Place Out Of No Place

Place Out Of No Place

On a scalding Saturday afternoon — peak heat wave in Los Angeles, temperatures around 107 outside — a small crowd of art writers gathered around a seersucker-suited Hilton Als inside the main gallery at David Zwirner.

Melissa Seley

26 Sep 2024 · 3 min read

Freedom Achieved Through Other Means

Freedom Achieved Through Other Means

The Nutmeg Pulpit is a celebration of the history of Black churches in post-Revolutionary War Connecticut

Jamil Ragland

26 Sep 2024 · 3 min read

Americana Pie

Americana Pie

Anne Marie Menta Trio Audio Feed Connecticut Old State House Hartford Sept. 24, 2024 Summer is officially over, but the Summer Series continued at the Old State House with the

Jamil Ragland

25 Sep 2024 · 3 min read

XPN Hodge Podges Flawless Festival

XPN Hodge Podges Flawless Festival

XPoNential Music Festival Wiggins Waterfront Park 2 Riverside Dr. Camden, New Jersey Sept. 22, 2024 University of Pennsylvania’s radio station WXPN celebrated the 30th year of their fall music

Emily Cohen

25 Sep 2024 · 4 min read

Art Helps Clients Cope

Art Helps Clients Cope

The pill bottles hang suspended in the air, a testament to their ubiquity and the damage they cause. Behind them are arrayed a series of facts and statistics about drug

Brian Slattery

25 Sep 2024 · 1 min read

The Two Should Have Remained as One

The Two Should Have Remained as One

Transformers One Apple Cinemas Xtreme Hartford Sept. 23, 2024 Transformers One serves as the origin story for perhaps the two most famous Transformers in history: Optimus Prime and Megatron. However,

Jamil Ragland

25 Sep 2024 · 4 min read

Small Sculptures Steal the Show

Small Sculptures Steal the Show

Ever lost hours in search of a sculpture you saw a decade ago and only vaguely recall, both online and among your own poorly archived history? She’s bronze, just smaller than life-sized, arms behind her back, facing the vista, standing on the side of a hill. She may be getting ready to swim…

Sarah Bass

25 Sep 2024 · 4 min read

Talk About A Bargain

Talk About A Bargain

Hartford’s Audio Feed concert series moved back indoors this week with The Bargain performing at the Old State House Food Court.

Jamil Ragland

25 Sep 2024 · 3 min read

Sausage Queen Breaks The Casing

Sausage Queen Breaks The Casing

All Hail The Sausage Queen The Nest 1615 N. Delaware Ave. Philadelphia Sept. 23, 2024 Claire Pitts made free, vegan hot dogs for everyone who came to her avant garde

Nora Grace-Flood

24 Sep 2024 · 3 min read

Artist Shoots Artwork

Artist Shoots Artwork

Many of the pieces at the latest show at Creative Arts Workshop push at the boundaries of what printmaking can do; among those are works by Kim Tester, like Witness

Brian Slattery

24 Sep 2024 · 1 min read

Journey Back To The (Rose) Garden

Journey Back To The (Rose) Garden

John Jarboe: The Rose Garden The Fabric Workshop and Museum 1214 Arch St. Philadelphia Sept. 21, 2024 When artist John Jarboe came out as trans, her aunt didn’t hesitate

Leo David

23 Sep 2024 · 3 min read

Hip-Hop’s New Area Code

Hip-Hop’s New Area Code

Hip Hop 918 Guthrie Green Tulsa Sept. 14, 2024 It’s been 23 years since Ludacris and the late Nate Dogg dropped their hit single “Area Codes.” 918 wasn’t

Ryan Anderson

23 Sep 2024 · 3 min read

What Steve Ballmer Can’t Buy

What Steve Ballmer Can’t Buy

INTUIT DOME ART PREVIEW Intuit Dome Inglewood We made long, slow shadows, watched them bleed into the pallid concrete. For what felt like an hour, we’d be waiting for

Eli Diner

23 Sep 2024 · 4 min read