Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective
Franklin Mount
The first Bergman film I ever saw was Cries and Whispers. My father took me. At age 14. It was on a double bill with Amarcord. If that sounds like a strange juxtaposition of films for a double bill, well, it is.
Cries an...
Sensitive Skin Best Of 2017
The Editors
Welcome! Time to ring in the old and ring
out the new. Or whatever. Here's the best of 2017 picks, from our editors and contributors. Remember, it didn't necessarily come out in 2017—it's just something we enjoyed in 201...
Stephen Shore – The Museum of Modern Art
Franklin Mount
A friend of mine once told me that his photography teacher admonished the class never to turn in a photograph of a sunset. Too obvious, too easy. How does one take a photograph that is beautiful, revelatory, and not repeat w...
Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern
Franklin Mount
Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern
At the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, through July 23, 2017
Art and celebrity meet, again, in this exhibition, under the guise of modernity. Actually, there is nothing more modern ...
Irving Penn Centennial
Franklin Mount
Irving Penn Centennial
At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through July 30, 2017
Money. Status. Power. Fashion. Style. Art. And some humanity, if it’s in the budget. Postwar New York.
The first object we s...
Max Beckmann in New York
Franklin Mount
Max Beckmann in New York
At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through February 20, 2017
These days, you can’t get away from references to Weimar era figures, in art, politics, or anywhere else. In that Weim...
Some Reflections on Bertolt Brecht, on the Occasion of the 119th Anniversary of His Birth
Franklin Mount
Some Reflections on Bertolt Brecht, on the Occasion of the 119th Anniversary of His Birth
“Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.”
“Unglücklich das Land, das Helden nötig hat.” - Leben des Galilei, scene 1...
Sensitive Skin Contributors 2016 Favorites – Books, Movies, TV, Art, Performance and Music – Reasons to Live
The Editors
Before we get on to the 2016 Favorites, first things first, I need to get this off my chest: Hey 2016 - go suck a bag of d***s, will ya?
OK, and now, without further ado, presented without rhyme or reason, here's our annu...
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Photographs by Nan Goldin – Review
Franklin Mount
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Photographs by Nan Goldin
At The Museum of Modern Art, New York, through February 12, 2017
Downtown New York in the late Seventies and early Eighties looms larger than ever in public imag...
Mystic Meanderer, Solo Exhibition by Eric Jiaju Lee — review by Franklin Mount
Franklin Mount
Mystic Meanderer, Solo Exhibition by Eric Jiaju Lee
Silk Road Gallery, 83 Audubon Road, New Haven, Connecticut. Through November 19, 2016
At this point in the Twenty-First Century, some impression of “Chinese art” h...