Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971

By Phyllis Tuchman

OCT 2022 | ArtSeen

Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 is jam packed with treasures and revelations. At the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, you’ll find film clips, movie posters, historical photographs, scripts, film scores, cameras, costumes, artworks by boldface names, and even miscellaneous objects, such as tap shoes worn by the remarkable Nicholas Brothers, as well as one of Louis Armstrong’s trumpets. They’ve all been brought together to tell an unfamiliar story. This astonishing, well-paced journey through seven-plus decades of movie history suggests that this fledgling institution, only a year old, has already emerged as a significant place for film aficionados to discover the past, present, and future of moving pictures.

Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young

By Ann McCoy

OCT 2022 | ArtSeen

The exhibition title, Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young, refers to Beardsley’s (1872–1898) birth 150 years ago, and the freshness of his work today. He was a consumptive who died at the tragically early age of twenty-five, and here we see the scope of his early genius.

Karen Han’s Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema

By Harrison Blackman

DEC 22–JAN 23 | Film

As a careful survey of a filmmaker whose work is not yet finished, Dissident Cinema is a compelling appraisal and appreciation of Bong’s body of work. Tackling each of his seven features (and more), Han contextualizes the films and filmmaker through various essays and a series of interviews with some of Bong’s frequent collaborators.

Walter Corwin’s A Short History of Now

By Allison Green

OCT 2022 | Theater

Walter Corwin Invites us to Experience an Intimate and Revealing “Short History of Now”