Podcast: Download In April (cruelest month) news came in that Harryette Mullen, inspiration for the song below by X (lyrics in part by Harryette), won the Jackson Poetry Prize for $50,000. She lives in Venice, Calif. …

Thursday night is the opening preview for Art Chicago at the Merchandise Mart featuring 150 galleries and dealers from around the world. The Southwest and Rocky Mountain region is well represented by the following: Turner Carroll …

Documentaries are always a reliable strength at the Tribeca Film Festival. This year, they are led by what might be called The Alex Gibney Show. Gibney, who won an Academy Award for his 2007 film, Taxi …

Ian Ingram works standing with a large magnifying glass on his left attached to a retractable stand and placed opposite a mirror. On his right is the sheet of paper on an easel. Both are illuminated. …

No One Knows About Persian Cats (a film by Bahman Ghobadi) is, among many other things,  a band-on-the-run film, with the bands in question scrambling to stay one step ahead of the police in Tehran. You …

A set of new shows at UTEPs Rubin Center links poster art to its history as populist agitprop and interpretation, and considers 12 leading graphic artists (one a collective), who are using poster art to reconstitute …

Second to the last shot: Late Sunday afternoon in the Wheelers elegant second floor lobby, three of the four-person Shortsfest awards jury – actress Meg Ryan (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless In Seattle, Courage Under Fire), …

April 6th –As ground blizzards raged around the mostly packed Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado, Laura Thielen, executive director of aspenFILM, introduced what she called “a new generation of big-screen storytellers.” In its 19th year …

The Square takes us to a quiet middle-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Sydney. Its Christmas time, theres a shark warning for the rivers that lead to the sea, and vacation home builder Ray is having …

From black-and-white dramas set in hot Connecticut summers to rites of passage in which kids know too much, Aspenfilm curator George Eldred with executive director Laura Thielen created a perfect curatorial moment Thursday night of the …