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Issue 106 Winter 2009
Painter Lari Pittman creates silhouetted scenes brimming with sexuality and nonsensicality—the folk art of a liberated past, channeled through the social realities of the present. Here, he discusses his envy of abstraction, and the horror of an empty bed.
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“Like a 19th century novel, the only thing wrong with Metropolitan is that it ends,” says Betsy Sussler of Whit Stillman’s sly comedy about coming of age in Manhattan. Featuring excerpts from Stillman’s timelessly clever script.
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2 Black 2 Strong and his right hand man, Warchild, discuss racism in the media, growing up and getting out of the ghetto, and the symbolism behind the American flag.
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Romulus Linney pens historical dramas that pinpoint emotional moments in the lives of his subjects, creating a version of history that is, as Craig Gholson describes it, “a compilation of truths mixed with a few lies.”
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