Fifty Years Later—Chilean Cinema Before the Coup

By Jaime Grijalba

SEPT 2023 | Film

Chilean cinema prior to the September 1973 coup gave us a portrait of a hopeful nation before it would be changed forever.

Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger’s DNCB–A History of Irritation

By Daniella Sanader

SEPT 2023 | Art Books

The first few printed lines of Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger’s DNCB – A History of Irritation describe a 1987 archival photograph as if from a sideways glance, peripheral details coming into focus before its core subject can be fully taken in. The paragraph goes on to articulate the scene in full: two white men are seated in a San Francisco apartment.

Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971

By Phyllis Tuchman

OCT 2022 | ArtSeen

Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 is jam packed with treasures and revelations. At the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, you’ll find film clips, movie posters, historical photographs, scripts, film scores, cameras, costumes, artworks by boldface names, and even miscellaneous objects, such as tap shoes worn by the remarkable Nicholas Brothers, as well as one of Louis Armstrong’s trumpets. They’ve all been brought together to tell an unfamiliar story. This astonishing, well-paced journey through seven-plus decades of movie history suggests that this fledgling institution, only a year old, has already emerged as a significant place for film aficionados to discover the past, present, and future of moving pictures.

Wardell Milan: Bluets & 2 Years of Magical Thinking

By Joel Danilewitz

MAY 2023 | ArtSeen

Walking through Wardell Milan’s new show at Sikkema Jenkins, I felt among his fleeting figures. In his exhibit, Bluets & 2 Years of Magical Thinking, the collages, sculptures, and paintings produce an intimate atmosphere. The audience forms a loose communion as they wander the three large rooms of the gallery, apprehending his vast paintings upon entrance.