Alejandro C. Eduarte
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Portrait of An Artist: Robert Ouyang Rusli
Robert Ouyang Rusli is an Asian American musician and film composer. They scored Shatara Michelle Ford’s meditative, haunting debut film “Test Pattern,” which is available for rent now in Kino Lorber virtual cinemas.
Remembering Johnny Pacheco: Fania Forever
It is impossible to describe how it feels having two tracks of claves or trumpets or piano lines play on top of each other, pulling your hips spry in one direction and sending your head up to cry when the polyphony snatches any instinct out from under you. Anything you think you know is dust in the face of the music.
‘Tapestry’ at 50: Carole King’s Roadmap Homeward
Let the piano tell it. That instrument, invented circa 1700, lasted two hundred and seventy-one years until Carole King came along to sit there and flip it around just so.
Conjure Love Through serpentwithfeet’s Exquisite ‘Fellowship’
Watch serpentwithfeet traverse its shore on his new single and video for “Fellowship,” off the forthcoming album “DEACON” (out March 26), and the answer washes in on waves, a whispered, incantatory “yes.”
'Anti' at 5: The Rihanna Museum
Make no mistake: she’s unhurried, never uninterested. Be patient with Rihanna, and get a gold rush; “ANTI” is her holy grail.
Aubrey Plaza Turns Auteur in Hypnotic, Surreal ‘Black Bear’
When sex and death are often coupled up in film; they clash and burn, usually ending in kicking-and-screaming terror. Director Lawrence Michael Levine knows this, and his film “Black Bear,” now available on VOD, sets up erotic sequences which spiral into extended, dizzying vignettes focused less on these disarming acts than the conditions in artistic communities which allow them to occur.
From Our Writers: What Books Kept You Sane In Quarantine?
Our writers turned to books for solace throughout quarantine: Here are their top picks for what soothed them most.
‘Pink Friday,’ The Soundtrack of the Decade, Turns Ten
In myriad ways, fans are still tethered to the artistic vision of “Pink Friday,” the album that catapulted Nicki Minaj onto the world’s stage.
NYFF Panel: The Artist, The Athlete, and the Revolutionary
The discussion pushed audiences beyond simplistic questions about the responsibility of Black artists, the palatability of their work for white audiences, and how celebrity supposedly removes them from their community.
Portrait of an Artist: John Manuel Arias
John Manuel Arias is a Costa Rican poet and fiction writer based in Washington, D.C. His debut novel, “Where There Was Fire,” is forthcoming from Flatiron Books.