Back in 2016, Maggie Rogers went viral as an NYU student after Pharrell Williams broke down in tears hearing her song "Alaska." Since then, Rogers has released two studio albums, 2018's Heard It In A Past Life and 2022's Surrender. Now, in 2024, she has dropped her third LP, Don't Forget Me. During that time,…
Lynn Hershman Leeson “Twisted” The New Museum, NYC June 30th – October 3rd, 2021 The New Museum has announced its Summer 2021 exhibitions, lead by new media artist Lynn Hershman Leeson with her first solo exhibit Twisted. Covering her storied career with works ranging from the 1960s to a new commission, Twisted Gravity (2020-21), from…
Michael Almereyda’s seventh film at Sundance, Experimenter, is a film that asks more questions than answers them. As Almereyda (2001’s Hamlet, Trance) stated before the film began, Stanley Milgram, the film’s biopic subject, was “better at asking questions than answering them.” The film does exactly the same by asking questions, but on the surface. In the vein of films…
