The Brooklyn film and art venue Light Industry, located in Greenpoint at 155 Freeman Street, will stage a daylong screening of work by Chris Marker on Sunday, Aug. 26, in memory of the filmmaker, who died on Monday at the age of 91. Read More
Starting around 2003, the artist Kalup Linzy introduced a character named Taiwan into his repertoire, a singer who was part diva, part soap opera stock character, and pretty much completely a bummer. Everything Taiwan did was emotional and dramatic. (sample lyric, from her signature song “Ass Hole”: “Ass hole, ass hole, ass hole/why oh why oh why?”) Mr. Linzy played the character himself, dressed in drag with a flapper wig, a flower in his hair and usually some kind of low-cut dress. Read More
