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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Hong Sangsoo variations continue: he makes essentially one segmented coherent work, which these shorter feature films are all part. NOWHERE TO LAY MY EYES is much closer to Chardin’s and Morandi’s maximally expressive minimalism than ever… 1/2

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The president of the United States is inciting a fucking pogrom.

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Once all the bike lanes are gone, and congestion hasn't improved, we will look back on this as a foolish act of self-sabotage by a government more interested in its own personal vendettas than in making Ontarians' lives better and more affordable.

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Protecting Canadians from Barbaric Cultural Practices - Canada.ca

It wasn't too long ago that our worst Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, tried to force Canadians to accept a law outlawing what he called "Barbaric Cultural Practices" (we rejected it). If he had succeeded, perhaps we would be reporting the US Defence Department today. www.canada.ca/en/news/arch...

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Today, Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced the tabling of legislation that will strengthen Canadian laws to prevent barbaric cultural practices from happening on Ca...

Those painters can say anything with a glass vase and some fruit. So can Hong, with his own additive elements (lovely to have Kim Minhee in the picture again). 2/2

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Speaking of blood soaked oligarchs, I’m in the Frick’s newish café, which seems vaguely orientalizing? At least Mr. Frick spent the money from the blood of his workers on a Duccio, a couple of Chardins, and three Vermeers.

I hate these oligarchical needle buildings on 57 St with a passion, but they do make a striking spectacle. They literally articulate, OK figuratively not literally, the dominance of grotesquely distributed wealth, who has all the power in our fractured and distorted Western societies right now.

The New Museum on the Bowery in New York has a fine elevator installation P for Power: Up Down, by Ho Tzu Nyen. Also a powerful Arthur Jafa show, and a spiffy new OMA- designed staircase.

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ARTIFICIAL was mostly built on the Faust model, made explicit: people super clearly and repetitively enunciating the moral themes we’re supposed to be absorbing. There’s not much room to reflect. Post-credit sequence is a bit late to start cashing in your Revolution Now chips. 2/2

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There’s a lot at stake in Luca Guadagnino’s ARTIFICIAL: how to understand — and thus effectively oppose — OpenAI’s (and other AI companies’) hegemony. But… occasional spasms of actual filmaking aside, … 1/2

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… I don’t know another new filmmaker who uses sound & image in such radical ways, to provoke us to rethink what we see, what we hear, & how we need to think about our world in crisis. 2/2

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

… I don’t know another new filmmaker who uses sound & image in such radical ways, to provoke us to rethink what we see, what we hear, & how we need to think about our world in crisis. 2/2

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

OVERT LISTENING. Tiffany Sia 2026. Sia is doing something new & important in her essay-poetic films, where the stakes are incredibly high... @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Close, but reversed: Altman should accept some bad things happening to his OpenAI for the sake of our world.

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Close, but reversed: Altman should accept some bad things happening to his OpenAI for the sake of our world.

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wangechi Mutu’s astonishing monumental The Seated I and The Seated III in the Metropolitan Museum’s surprisingly fascinating exhibition: Modern Portraits.

Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Krasner framing Pollock at the Met show.

Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Globe and Mail investigation into the Alberta separatist “movement” today is really quite something. It lays out how the movement is infiltrated by & substantially supported by Americans, and that it’s a fraud: these Albertans don’t want independence; they want to force Alberta to join the U.S.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/10/2026

Yale President McInnis is currently trying to cut a deal with Trump's white supremacist administration over admissions policies. Incredibly shameful. Demonstrators turned the hell out to say NO. Huge admiration for these students and faculty members and alums.

Yale students and faculty looking serious as hell at the demonstration - holding signs that read "DEFEND DIVERSITY / DEFEND DEMOCRACY / DON'T SETTLE"

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Attending the world premiere of Tiffany Sia’s @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social first feature OVERT LISTENING today at the New York FF. An landscape/Cold War essay-poem, shot on Taiwan’s Kinmen Island, a former (and quietly, current) front line of history & geography www.filmlinc.org/nyff2026/fil...

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Hong Kong–born artist Tiffany Sia confronts the Cold War legacy of China in this landscape film shot amidst the serene environs of Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago, where a major battle took place at the e...

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Manhattan looks very spiky from a slowmoving Brooklyn expressway.

In case it wasn’t clear, I really like the film.

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Off to NYC for the New York Film Festival. Highlights: OVERT LISTENING, Tiffany Sia (world premiere!) NOWHERE TO LAY MY EYES, Hong Sangsoo and a few others in between. Tips on current gallery shows (Chelsea or elsewhere) and museum exhibitions welcome. Also snack/coffee spots around Lincoln Center.

Overt Listening image: Xiamen glistens from Kinmen

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After a string of fine, powerful, responsive HK suicide films (reflecting a post-2019 mood), this takes a suicidal mindset in a completely different direction. Time for a post-post-2019 HK cinema of consolation? Somehow didn't win the Pingyao Hidden Dragon Award. There's always Golden Horse. /3

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Reminds me of one of Pang Ho-cheung's best films, the kind with Miriam Yeung (Love in a Puff and ff). Chung Suet-ying is this generation's Miriam; which makes Yeung Wai-lun our ... not Shawn Yue, something more like Lau Ching-wan? /2

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WE ARE BORN GOOD 善男信女 dir. Yeung Leung-chuen, HK 2026. Fine first feature (first produced, second written) by Yeung Leung-chuen. The expressive use of wide-angle lenses puts the characters both too close and too far from each other, just like the fine tonally modulated narrative does. /1

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Kent Monkman’s fantastic, monumental beaver sculpture The Colony is now installed in Toronto’s Biidaasige Park. The beaver hotel is based on an Italian engraver’s fantasy of a beaver lodge. There’s also a Venus beaver and other fun things. I think this is the best thing Monkman has made yet.

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There's something of a utopian vision of society (though at a crazily elite level) in this: perhaps northern European social democracies (and Canada, aspirationally) manage to make something socially cohesive, mutually energizing, out of free-spirited and variously gifted individuals.

the do the seemingly impossible: combine expressive individuality of great musicians (each with a strong individual personality and spirit) with an ensemble cohesiveness that searches and finds, together, how to animate a classic old work, to make it sound urgently important. Wizardry.

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The Berlin Philharmonic @berliner-philharmoniker.de (and their glorious brass section). Today's live broadcast of the Mahler 2nd Symphony (cond. Daniel Harding, manhandling a beast of a piece towards the final movement's exultant payoff) showed again what's special about the Berlin Phil:

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