Nathan Spon

Surrounded by shimmering decor, a young man lays in bed before a gaudy mirror. He inspects his striking reflection with amorous eyes, his...

In “Queer Feelings” from The Cultural Politics of Emotion, theorist Sara Ahmed details relations between queer subjects and...

In Luis Bunuel's 1962 Surrealist film The Exterminating Angel, a group of bourgeois partygoers become inexplicably trapped in a room for...

I sauntered down to my dorm kitchen at 10 AM to interview Indira Allegra. A multidisciplinary Bay Area artist, Allegra uses video,...

In Claire Denis’s 1999 film Beau Travail, a military veteran named Galoup narrates his final days in the French Foreign Legion. While...

Mamma Roma is the second film by Marxist provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini. In post-WWII Italy, the title character is a middle-aged sex...

Contemporary artist Takato Yamamoto imbues his paintings with decorative intricacy, Japanese culture and mysterious eros. Pale, enigmatic...

“A Memory” is the new exhibition by Lana Crooks at Albuquerque's Stranger Factory Gallery. Crooks’ self-proclaimed “no guilt specimens”...

In the act of seeing, an active viewer attains power over a passive subject. We relinquish a certain self-determination to any stranger’s...

On November 2, 1975, Italian Marxist filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered by a street hustler in Rome. His final work, Salo: Or the...