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Steal This Story, Please! – the new documentary film about independent journalist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! – opens with an off-kilter shot of people milling about in a busy convention center. Specifically, it’s the United Nations Climate Summit in Katowice, Poland in December 2018. Amy and her crew are talking off-camera, identifying a conference attendee: Trump’s climate policy advisor P.… read more.
“I… think this film is particular and it will find you when it’s meant to find you – if it’s meant to find you,” Eva Victor (the director of the 2025 film, Sorry, Baby) told an interviewer recently.
It found me.
Before seeing Sorry, Baby last July, I had deliberately avoided reading much about the film, so I didn’t realize until the credits rolled that the actress who played the protagonist Agnes so effectively was the director Eva Victor herself.… read more.
August 29, 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall in New Orleans, irrevocably altering the iconic city and its population. That storm also changed the landscape of Americans’ relationship with their government. For thousands of Gulf Coast residents, the safety nets weren’t just “inadequate;” they were completely absent (even before the hurricane struck).… read more.
Installation artist Abhidnya Ghuge has temporarily transformed the Polk/Wilson Gallery at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University (Kansas) into an ethereal, subaquatic wonderland. The gallery is lit from above by blue lights that enhance the illusion. Placidly adrift in its vast, aquatic imaginarium is a multicolored, serpentine, bioluminescent sea creature: the artist’s most recent multimedia installation. … read more.
As sites of contestation go, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia feels like the ideal locus for Mickalene Thomas’ provocative ongoing conversation with the historical canon of Western art. The Barnes collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Modern art is regarded as one of the finest and most valuable in the world.… read more.
May 16, 2016 was an auspicious day for South Korean author, Han Kang. She was awarded the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for her powerful novel, The Vegetarian. The competition was formidable. Also on the list were some of the most venerated contemporary writers: Elena Ferrante, José Eduardo Agualusa, Orhan Pamuk, Robert Seethaler, and Yan Lianke.… read more.