Realism(s) #57

88:88 - Isiah Medina, 2015, HD/SD video

Realism(s) #56

88:88 - Isiah Medina, 2015, HD/SD video

Scholarship #5

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Too late for this to matter, but: as a result of doing the final corrections on my PhD thesis at a pretty difficult time (back in 2013), the final version of the thesis made publicly available at ORE had quite a few minor but sloppy typographical errors/slips in it. To those who took the time to read it – sorry about that! A corrected version has been uploaded at last; better late than never...

Ground Zero

A woman driven by unbearable thirst trying to catch black raindrops in her mouth - Akiko Takakura, 19 years old at the time of the Hiroshima bombing on 6 August 1945; age when image created: 49 years old

Realism(s) #55

Utskor: Either/Or - Laida Lertxundi, 2013, 16mm

Realism(s) #54

Foggy Days (Toronto) - Charlie Lindsay, 2014

Realism(s) #53

Children on Fire Escape - Weegee (Arthur Fellig), 1938, gelatin silver print

The Anchorage

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Short notice, but: there's a rare (35mm) screening of C.W. Winter and Anders Edström's The Anchorage (2010) at the ICA in London on Sunday, followed by a Q&A with the directors. Also opening: Agnes Martin at Tate Modern; Sharon Lockhart presents her current photographic and filmic work in progress at Tate Modern on 12 June.

Essential reading: Finding a Liberal Form: Oppenheimer, Morris, Godmilow. Also: The Slow Boat to China; Escape or Die; coal ash and a Pennsylvania prison; Palo Alto; excellent recent entries at Jones the Planner on Manchester and Salford, Hamburg, Bradford; Follow the White Ball; The Husband Did It; True Starts and Second Truths: Katy Perry: Part of Me; Kitchen Sink Cinema; no no sleep; Codeine Crazy; Truancy Volume 114: The Large (my favourite mix of the year so far); B.U.T.W. 42 & 45; Erased de Kooning; personal meditation. And, too far away, forthcoming at this year's NYFF: a complete Dorsky and Hiler retrospective.