Bwog staffer Julia Butareva reviews the Marian Goodman Gallery‘s exhibit featuring William Kentridge’s preparatory drawings for his production of the opera The Magic Flute. In Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Sarastro, priest of Osiris and Isis and champion of the Enlightenment, triumphs over the mysterious and irrational Queen of the Night. Sarastro is first presented as […]

Bwog staffer Kabir Singh reviews the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibit featuring Emperor Akbar’s lavishly illustrated Khamsa (quintet of tales). Although a little hard to navigate at first, I grew to love the true to its provenance right-to-left organization of Pearls of the Parrot of India: The Emperor Akbar’s Illustrated ‘Khamsa,’ 1597–98. Spanning this one-room exhibition at […]

In which film savant Iggy Cortez gives you something to watch this weekend when you ask the cute girl from CC to your room to “watch a movie.” After the decidedly uneven Swimming Pool, with 5X2 François Ozon makes a triumphant return to form with a film that is playfully sardonic but also unapologetically moving. […]

In which staffer Mark Krotov gives movie suggestions for those who fear to venture off the 1, 2, and 3 lines.

New Yorkers! Rally thy selves around political art. This weekend and coming week offer a wide selection of fascinating proposals for your movie viewing pleasure. Film geeks, proceed after the jump with care.

Last night Lerner’s Black Box theater, Egg and Peacock offered the amusement of 10 plays which hadn’t existed 24 hours prior. Led by Abigail Broberg and Rosalind Grush, playwrights converged at 8pm Friday, burned the midnight oil, and left their directors at 6am Saturday with a play to read, cast, rehearse, and present by 8pm. […]

In which staffer Mark Krotov reveals his cinematic snobbery to the wider world (and gives you a list of what’s playing at select nearby theaters). AMC Loews 84th Street Six 84th and Broadway Annapolis Pay money to watch a commercial for the Navy, except this time it’s not in the trailers. With the guy that […]

In which film savant Iggy Cortez gives you something to watch this weekend when you ask the cute girl from CC to your room to “watch a movie.” By the fourth week of school you know there is no turning back, and what better way to take refuge but in the movies? Fellni’s exuberant films […]

Bwog staffer Juliya Butareva reviews Alexander Valdman’s show of contemporary painting at the InterArts gallery. Alexander Valdman’s wife tells a story about how, while waiting to meet a friend on a street corner in Manhattan, she and her husband were suddenly accosted by a cop. As she politely answered the policeman’s questions, Valdman suppressed a […]