.@Triple_Canopy have published James N. Kienitz Wilkins's “Can U Digg It?,” a three-part project recounting the filmmaker's attempt to adapt Percival Everett’s novel "Telephone" (presented as a lawyer-approved screenplay, an essay, and a dossier.) https://t.co/OGl1rOvc2H
"The subject that gazes out from Farah’s canvas was the face of the most ambitious, even audacious attempt to censor and punish support, within the arts, for Palestinian freedom." @tobihaslett on a painting by Hamishi Farah: https://t.co/VCCKoR58UO
Guessing the @DaveedDiggs & @leslieodomjr adaptation of Telephone will never get made, and all the lawfare and agenting and dinglehopping will be for nought.
"What does a man do when he discovers he has no rights?" James N. Kienitz Wilkins on his unauthorized Percival Everett adaptation, Hollywood lawfare, Shrek, NA beer, and ��the capital-B Black experience” as premium IP.
Coming in June: @Triple_Canopy presents a screening of Daniel Chew and Micaela Durand's FIRST, NEGATIVE TWO, and 38.
Followed by a conversation with the filmmakers and author Chris Kraus + party w/DJs Bianca Lexis & Lil M.
Thursday 6/13 8pm @2220Arts
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“Who would disarm the woman for whom vengeance is erotics shrouded in beauty? Who would reduce her awakening to tragedy because of a single scene?” – @Harmony_Holiday https://t.co/VZXRshnAcb
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I spent months working on this writing about this last time I saw my father and its implications. In the end I brought in Baraka, Kathleen Collins, Gordon Parks, and all the music I could smuggle past memory starting with Miles Davis And Theo Parrish.
Darren Bader’s practice is for sale. Read more about it and watch a new documentary short by Pacho Velez about Bader’s decision in our twenty-eighth issue. @MosesHosiery https://t.co/J8C2AXLLDl
Rest in pseudonyms, Brian O'Doherty. Wrote a tribute to the artist, critic, TV personality, maze devotee & anti-imperialist for @friezeofficial. He was and will always be "a fictive person, perhaps, too smart to be an artist, too dumb to be anything else." https://t.co/Q6ZQBtSDpE
We’ve just launched our twenty-eighth issue, True to Life, which considers how we narrate our lives, and how these narratives provide a sense of oneself in the world (and of the world itself). https://t.co/N92hL13E4m
Join us this Saturday at 5:30pm for a conversation and screening with @3LVVIA, @AlexKleeman, Adam Khalil, and Bayley Sweitzer, who’ll speculate on everything from vampire colonizers to dystopian literature to the natural desire of humans to become plants. https://t.co/Sf638cyhvy
Just in: @xdrmcrshrx will join Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste and @dawuna_world on September 10 for a series of performances at the opening of “Signaling” at @Kino_Saito. Tickets are still available—and include unlimited tacos and drinks. https://t.co/1xSlTgryWA
IN-STORE: Live on Fulton St!
@RachelAviv launches STRANGERS TO OURSELVES: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us in conversation with Gideon Lewis-Kraus! 9/13 at 7:30 PM ET.
RSVP: https://t.co/D5uUmo2qpM