Harold Edgerton's dynamic stop-motion photos from last century revealed the intricacies of human bodies in motion.

The Village Voice reviews Beatriz Mihases's secret garden of paintings featured in an off-ramp gallery at the Guggenheim.

The Village Voice looks at an exhibit at the New York Historical that examines the Red Scare and the Hollywood blacklist of the 1930s to '50s.

When he was in high school, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Joe Brainard (b. 1942, in Salem, Arkansas) helped found an arts and literary magazine with his classmates Ron Padgett and Richard “Dick” Gallup. The ...

The Village Voice looks at an exhibit at the New York Historical that examines the Red Scare and the Hollywood blacklist of the 1930s to '50s.

In the shadows of Florida’s billion-dollar theme parks, an alternate form of entertainment is quietly thriving. It doesn’t involve parades, reservation systems, or steep entrance fees. Instead ...

Moving to Las Vegas may not be everyone’s dream, but it’s all that Arya Rae wanted for her fresh start. Last year she left everything she knew behind to start over in Sin City, complete with a ...

I wrote a play about politics (November, Barrymore Theater, Broadway, some seats still available). And as part of the “writing process,” as I believe it’s called, I started thinking about ...

Over the years, we’ve talked to a lot of former Scientologists, many of whom worked at the church’s secretive desert headquarters in Southern California, “Int Base.” They were cut off from ...

We know you’ve been working very hard on your screenplay, but before you go looking for some professional feedback, you might keep in mind the following piece by A History of Violence ...

William Friedkin’s Cruising first appears in the Quad Cinema’s exhaustive Al Pacino retrospective this week, unspooling unassumingly on Wednesday night — atypical for a movie that has made ...

Cult-Nats Meet Freaky-Deke December 1986 Somewhere along the road to probable madness or a meaningful life, I decided that what black culture needs is a popular poststructuralism — accessible ...