slideshow December 10, 2014 9:30 am By Ian Epstein Share Share Tweet Pin It 34 Photos Photo: ? Inez & Vinoodh / Courtesy Gagosian Gallery The sacred and the abject have always danced around one another. Eric Fischl, who began painting in the ‘70s, has moved with grace between the two, capturing the sterile beauty of the suburbs of his youth — he grew up in Port Washington, New York — and the troubled people who inhabit them.
Fear has a way of revealing truths. You can tell a lot about a person based on the things they are afraid of. Some people, you could say, are defined by their fears; others are merely informed by them.
Either way, a specific fear is an expression of underlying value systems: evolutionary ones, sure, as in the way some are afraid of the dark because it generally makes everything less safe in the Stone Age and so on; but also systems that are more personal and moral — what you cherish, what you’re comfortable with, what gets into your bones.
Once again, they’ve released an album in the middle of a movement against police brutality. Run the Jewels released their second album, Run the Jewels 2, in October 2014 as the country awaited charges for the police officer who killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, in Ferguson, Missouri. The track “Early,” which imagines member Killer Mike being killed by a police officer during a traffic stop, felt all too relevant after its release — not to mention a month later, when a grand jury declined to indict officer Darren Wilson for killing Brown.
We’ve nearly made it to the official start of summer — summer Fridays! summer breezes! summer lovin’! — but first we get the extended holiday weekend of Memorial Day. In the event that barbecues or poolside festivities aren’t your speed, rest assured that you can stay out of the sun by seeing one of the many enticing films currently in theaters. (And for even more movie and television recommendations, be sure to head on over to our streaming hub.
At least hanging a giant mirror with my girlfriend during intermission felt queer, unlike this movie. This piece originally ran in November, but now that Ammonite is finally available to watch on demand, we’re republishing it. Warning: spoilers ahead.
To set the scene: It’s a Monday evening. The plan is to cook dinner for my girlfriend and then park it on the couch together to watch Ammonite, the new lesbian period drama starring Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet.
Dennis Haysbert with Paul Finkelman on Paul T. Goldman. There’s a moment in the second episode of Paul T. Goldman — Peacock’s surreal docu-dramedy series about Paul Finkelman’s search for justice after allegedly falling victim to a scam perpetrated by his second ex-wife — when Ludwig Manukian, an actor who appears briefly in the show, expresses his misgivings about Finkelman’s outsize role in the series. “He’s the main guy?
Donald might have been too busy to get his wife a birthday present yesterday, but thankfully, during last night’s The Opposition, Citizen Journalists Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp stepped in to provide the birthday gift and wishes for Melania that her husband couldn’t be bothered to give. That gift is a good one: a completely new covers-only magazine called Plead the Fifth that allows Melania to finally be featured on a cover without having to worry about the whole “in-depth interview” part of it.
Alice (Pen15’s Maya Erskine) really wants to cuddle; Ben (Jack Quaid) knows it’s a bad idea. In this exclusive clip from the romantic comedy Plus One, Erskine and Quaid have a high-level discussion about the implications cuddling could have on their friendship. Alice and Ben are college friends who’ve made a pact to be each other’s perma plus-one for a year packed with weddings. (One could say the duo is booked and busy!
Are you happy? Would you give up life as you know it to zip back to some idyllic teen summer and laze on the arm of a sorely missed first love? These questions salt the bedrock of Frank Ocean’s work, from the Coachella romance of “Novacane,” breakthrough single from a mixtape literally titled Nostalgia, Ultra, to Channel Orange, an album of brokenhearted reminiscences set in motion by a PlayStation firing up a game of Street Fighter.
The wig in question. Calling all movie-loving Canadians! Your time is again nigh. After last year’s event was lightly derailed owing to the strikes, the Toronto International Film Festival is back and scheduled to run from September 5 through 15. This year’s fest will include K-Pops, an Anderson .Paak–directed dramatic comedy inspired by his own life. Here’s hoping he brings that damn wig to bestow strong bob energy to the carpet.