Alain Resnais' melancholic, rapturous depiction of a brief encounter between two married people in the scarred city of Hiroshima is a jewel of the French New Wave movement.
Neil Fauerso
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Many of us think this is finally the time we will complete our Major Project. I suggest a more modest goal: watch art films you were too tired or busy to watch in the past.
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Phewwwww. This was a recommendation by a friend (thanks?) and is one of the scariest and most unsettling things I’ve ever seen.
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In this highly meta play-within-a-play, Juliette Binoche plays a famed actress returning to her breakthrough work, this time playing the older woman instead of the ingénue.
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New series: Glasstire's Neil Fauerso brings you interesting (perhaps unexpected) movie recommendations that you can stream at home.
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This show is bracingly unsparing and unsentimental.
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Preview
The Magic of Sátántangó (And It Screens This Saturday at Rice Cinema)
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoI made sure prior to the Austin screening to post on social media jokes about no one wanting to go with me, to secure that I couldn’t bail the day of, like a poser. What is the purpose of depicting such misery, especially in almost real time (sometimes in a surreal, slower than real time)?
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Review
Alchemically Linked: Cauleen Smith, Emre Hüner, and Jessica Halonen at Artpace
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoThe three shows form a remarkably detailed and cogent meditation on power, spaces, and relationships.
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One of the revelations of this exhibit is how various visual artistic movements throughout the 20th century are physically manifested and demonstrated through theater and performance.
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Reviews of current shows by Jorge Alegría, Mario Ybarra Jr., and Jennifer Ling Datchuk.
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Artists, musicians, and other creative people are leaving Austin for smaller towns in the Hill Country.
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Profile
Talking with Jazmyne Moreno, Programmer of Austin Film Society’s LATES
by Neil Fauersoby Neil Fauerso“It’s harder to get people out during the holiday season for truly transgressive work,” she tells me. “Wait 'til the new year.”
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Drive ByReview
Useless Systems: Robert Jackson Harrington and Hector Hernandez
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoThese pieces are beautiful, dynamic sculptures that activate a lingering disquiet that they should… do something.
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Both of these shows speak to the slippery and amorphous nature of systems, how they replicate and cannibalize their opposition.
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All three current Artpace resident exhibitions in San Antonio address freedom and constriction of the individual, nature, and culture.
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Shows by Emmanuel De Sousa, Jesus Treviño, Alán Serna, and the Wheeler Brothers wrap up this long Texas summer.
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To explain what distinguishes the Trump aesthetic from the old far-right American style, let’s take a look at MAGA’s nexus of aesthetic accoutrements.
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Preview
A City’s New Temple: The Realization of Linda Pace’s Ruby City in San Antonio
by Neil Fauersoby Neil FauersoThe finished structure indeed has the gravitas of a temple, and is as much a work of art as the collection it houses.
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It is hard to think of an artist more emblematic of San Antonio's contemporary art output than Ken Little.
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One of the joys of living in Texas is that the state’s mythology and presence looms so large that it often inspires visiting artists to make works specifically in response to the Lone Star State.