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Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Ten Years Later: Climate Change as a Hero’s Journey

A decade ago, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar imagined a near-future of apocalyptic climate change. Dystopia is a Hollywood commonplace, but...

25.10.2024 4

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Noah Berlatsky

How Artist Andrea Carlson Heals Landscapes By Dismantling and Reassembling Them

Arguably the most famous American landscape artist, Ansel Adams, is known for photos that are notably absent of people and, in many ways, absent of...

14.08.2024 20

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Noah Berlatsky

‘The Blair Witch Project’ at 25: The Influence of The Found-Footage Sensation

After The Blair Witch Project made $248 million on a $35,000 budget, studios rushed to create the next found footage sensation. Now, at the...

29.07.2024 5

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Noah Berlatsky

‘The Boys’ Season 4 Review: The Exhausting Work of Fighting (And Satirizing) Fascism

Since its debut in 2019, Eric Kripke’s superhero series The Boys has established itself as television’s sharpest and most explicit satire of...

11.06.2024 10

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Noah Berlatsky

A New Biography Becomes Part of the Art Vortex That Is Terry Allen

Brandon Greaves’ Truckload of Art can be seen not just as documentation of Allen’s work but also as part of that work itself.

15.04.2024 10

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Noah Berlatsky

Chicago’s Hyde Park Art Center Puts Alice Shaddle Back in Her Rightful Spotlight

For me, the highlight of the posthumous “Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles” exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago was not any of the...

09.04.2024 20

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Noah Berlatsky

The 25th Anniversary of ‘The Matrix’: Liberation and Co-optation

On the 25th anniversary of The Matrix , the movie remains a cultural touchstone. Its mix of gravity-defying, phenomenal CGI enhanced stunts,...

25.03.2024 10

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Noah Berlatsky

A Look Inside ‘A Love Supreme’ at Chicago’s Elmhurst Art Museum

“It still touches me,” artist and designer Norman Teague tells me in a soft-spoken voice as we sit in the glass-enclosed lobby of the Elmhurst Art...

01.02.2024 10

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Noah Berlatsky

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