Maggie Gyllenhaal is “interested in monstressness.” Frankenstein’s monster and its appropriately eccentric creator, Mary Shelley, have captivated generations for over two centuries. From Boris Karloff’s seminal performance as Frankenstein’s monster in the 1931 Universal Pictures adaptation to Guillermo Del Toro’s stylistic 2025 retelling, filmmakers and actors across the ages have spun cinematic excellence out of …
Today’s punks extend the mid-1970s “big bang” of punk into 21st-century discontent. Today, wealth stratification has entrenched caste-like socioeconomic disparities; meanwhile, surveillance capitalists track dissent, box it up and sell it back as clickbait content. Across Europe and the United States, ethno-nationalist movements gain traction by viciously “othering” minorities and political opponents.
A perfect example of a building with a legacy is Smalls, a cramped, underground, basement-like club in New York City. Despite its age, Smalls’s soul permeates the room, producing a tangible feeling that washes over you the moment you walk through the door. The brownstone is decorated with autographed photos from the “Queen of Jazz,” …
Currently, there are more individuals classified as Palestinian refugees than there are people residing in Gaza and the West Bank. Forced exile characterizes everyday life in the region as Israeli control of Palestinian borders makes returning home an impossibility. A new exhibition at the Palo Gallery in New York, Longing: In Between Homelands, showcases scenes …
Greg Goya is making us kinder people- one brush stroke at a time. The fine arts, often brimming with pretension and purposeless exclusivity, have in some ways become the very thing its creation has always moved against – inaccessible, ordinary, and impersonal. While this elitist ethos does not categorize all of the fine art world, …