Deborah Krieger
I write about art and culture.
Arts writer/curatorial assistant. Swarthmore/Fulbright Austria alumna. I love museums/galleries/curating/pop culture/fan studies/tv/movies/transmedia/writing. deborahkrieger20@gmail.com.
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Teen Girls Take On Sexism In Sophie Strauss' "Quiz In A Magazine" Video: Interview With Animator Becca Schuchat
Sophie Strauss is a singer-songwriter on the rise, characterized by her lush sound and witty, poetic lyrics. BUST is premiering her newest music video, “Quiz in a Magazine,” a short, incisive song about sexism and the murky, confusing nature of girlhood. I caught up with Becca Schuchat, the educator and animator who worked with a class of young women to create this video, to ask her about her influences, ambitions as an artist, and, of course, how the “Quiz in a Magazine” video came to life.
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WhiteHot Magazine
"Loving" and Losing Vincent van Gogh
The achingly beautiful Loving Vincent, directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, would be a notable film even if it were only a very fine formal experiment.
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popmatters.com
'The Weight of Ink' Is a Shining Example of Historical Fiction’s Best Qualities
Kadish makes reading about people reading about history captivating and thrilling.
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Gail Honeyman on Her Debut Book About Mental Illness
Holding back tears while finishing Gail Honeyman’s astounding debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine—and in a restaurant no less—I knew I had to talk with the author.
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John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson And Modernist Architecture Make "Columbus" Stand Out
Indeed, the approach to mise-en-scène in "Columbus" is set up by actual dialogue spoken early in the movie: Richardson’s character Casey is introduced to us while murmuring a sort of tour-guide spiel about the Eliel Saarinen First Christian Church — how even though the door and cross on the building’s façade (and the clock on the tower) are purposefully off-center, they still manage to be balanced and beautiful.
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"Almost Adults" Is A Women-Made Comedy About Coming Out
'Almost Adults' is a clear labor of love and prompts some genuine laugh-out-loud moments, even if the momentum disappears in the second half of the narrative.
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popmatters.com
'The Bold Type' Blends Political/Social Issues With Good Female-Centered Action
Beneath the style, gloss, and glamour, over a mere ten episodes of a short first (and hopefully not last) season, "The Bold Type" has demonstrated that it has its heart in the right place.
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Exploring Flowers, Tolstoy, and The Wifi on Mount Olympus with Lola Rose Thompson
Lola Rose Thompson puts it directly: “I think that words have the power to make an image—what you call it, and that’s something that we see oftentimes in the news and in tabloids.”
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pastemagazine.com
The Queen of Spain [Movie Review]
It eventually becomes clear that "The Queen of Spain" is trying to position itself as "Singing in the Rain" by way of Armando Iannucci. Making a film about filmmaking is nothing new, so the political context of the claustrophobic, frightening nature of the government’s control over nearly every part of life in Spain is meant to add some kind of urgency and tension to the proceedings.
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Troian Bellisario's "Feed" Is A Psychological Thriller Exploring Grief And Eating Disorders
Most importantly, we are never allowed to forget that Olivia’s refusal to eat is intrinsically linked to her visions of Matt — seemingly returned as a kind of ghost — who soon turns out to be a manifestation of her eating disorder itself. Olivia’s inability to accept Matt’s death leads her to “save” her food as if saving it for him, bringing napkin-wrapped bundles of her dinner to the tree in their yard where they used to play.
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"In A New Space," Brenda Goodman Turns Towards the Light
It’s clear that these new works reflect a clear change not only in the formal qualities that have come to define Goodman’s decades-long career, but also in the emotional effects these works evoke. The murky and eerie element has been substituted for a clearer, brighter aesthetic, which is quite telling; Goodman’s body of work, which she refers to as a “visual diary,” as she calls it, has “always come from [her] emotions.”
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"The Bold Type" is Fun, But It Could Go Bolder
Is the vibe of sincerity real in "The Bold Type," or merely a veneer applied like a coat of pretty nail polish because suddenly, feminism is fashionable?
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hafny.org
A Massive Mix of Work in Philadelphia Photo Arts Center's 2017 Members' Exhibition
The works are divided into roughly four different clusters in the large, airy space of the Photo Arts Center, but they don’t seem to be necessarily linked by particular photographic technique, subject matter, or even aesthetic; instead, the various themes that spring up are made present here and there amidst smaller groupings of between two and four works at a time. This decision is where the strengths of this Members Show lie, as well as within individual works themselves, even when the larger groupings don’t seem to have the same cohesion.
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"This Beautiful Fantastic" Does A Messy Dance With The Manic Pixie Dream Girl
This Beautiful Fantastic does a messy dance with the specter of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, because Bella does seem to fulfill this role for Alfie, Vernon, and Billy in the diegetic sense, even as her subjectivity is placed at the forefront for the audience.
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'The Space Between the Stars' Is a Stellar Debut
Carefully balancing the demands of narrative, characterization, and theme, Corlett has created a thrilling and memorable story.