Tomas Vu: The Man Who Fell to Earth 76 22

The Boiler in Williamsburg, Brooklyn opened during the pandemic in 2020 as an extension of the ELM Foundation’s programming, and invites contemporary artists to create installations and exhibitions in its space, previously run by Pierogi Gallery from 2009–2015. The current show, The Man Who Fell to Earth 76|22, by artist Tomas Vu, is his first solo show in New York since 2008. The raw industrial space exudes an extraterrestrial feeling, perfect for a show whose title recalls David Bowie’s cen...

Meat and Pudding

Is this where "If you don’t eat your meat you cannot have any pudding" in Pink Floyd’s The Wall comes from?

Welcome to the 80s - We Don’t Need No Education

Welcome to the ’80s: We Don’t Need No Education By Rachel Brook November 30 2014 1980s high school movies are a mixed bag, with the plethora of cult teen films ranging tonally from dick jokes to contemplations on mortality (sometimes even within the same film). Of course the high-school set films of the ‘80s found room for the dances, clique conflicts and high-concept pranks that remain mainstays of today’s teen movies, but they could also be profound, insightful and, ab...