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The Surrealist Blues Poet aja monet’s Jazzy New Album
Electronic The English singer, producer, and d.j. Nia Archives stands at the forefront of the modern U.K. rave scene, working primarily in…
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Colombia Sends ‘A Poet’ to the Oscars
Colombia has picked Cannes Un Certain Regard jury prizewinner “A Poet” as its submission to the 98th Academy Awards international feature…
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‘Late Fame’ Director Kent Jones and Writer Samy Burch on Casting Willem Dafoe as a Forgotten Poet and Paying Homage to a Lost New York Art Scene: ‘It’s a World That Was There, and Then It Was Gone’
For Kent Jones and Samy Burch, nearly everything about making their new Venice-premiering drama, “Late Fame,” was kismet. The two had…
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How the Poet James Schuyler Wrung Sense from Sensibility
The American poet James Schuyler composed his first significant poem during a nine-week stay at the Payne Whitney Westchester psychiatric…
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Earth’s Poet of Scale
If there was one absence in Burtynsky’s account of our time, however, it was the single greatest result of all that mining, burning, and…
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Epicentre Takes French Rights for Simón Mesa Soto’s ‘A Poet’ Ahead of Cannes Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
French distribution rights for Simón Mesa Soto’s “A Poet” have been sold to Epicentre Films ahead of the film’s world premiere at Cannes…
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Bottega Veneta Taps Chinese Poet Yu Xiuhua for Shanghai Performance and Installation
After staging a performance with Patti Smith in Milan, Bottega Veneta has tapped the Chinese poet Yu Xiuhua to collaborate on a poetry…
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The Ecstatic Intimacies of Joe Brainard
“I am a sucker for people who seem to do what they do just for you (me).” The artist and writer Joe Brainard dashed off this thought in…
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The Poet Shane McCrae Goes Back to Hell
Along Interstate 71, in a flat stretch of Ohio, an otherwise modest billboard proclaims that “hell is real.” The type, set against a black…
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Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni, the 'Princess of Black Poetry,' dies at 81
Poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni, a prominent figure during the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and ‘70s who was dubbed “the…