FR/BLCK/PR Archives – Riot Material

Free Black Press Radio, Episode 7- Musings On The Afro-Techno-Utopia

September 8, 2017 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

Free Black Press Radio, Episode 6 – The American Theatre Of The Real & The Nazi Party

August 31, 2017 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

Free Black Press Radio, Episode 5 – The Fall Of Kanye And Obama Part 1 (ruff mix)

August 26, 2017 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

Free Black Press Radio, Episode 4 “…Because The Southern Strategy”

August 19, 2017 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

Free Black Press Radio, Episode 3 – The Future Of Language

August 12, 2017 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

Free Black Press Radio, Episode 2 – No Space

August 5, 2017 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

Free Black Press Radio, Episode 1 – The KKK & Roots Of Whiteness

July 29, 2017 By Riot Material Leave a Comment

Roger Ballen’s Visceral & Phantasmagorical Outland

In her review of the Roger Ballen retrospective, “Ballenesque,” at Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles (through June 16, 2018), Shana Nys Dambrot tells us, “in the last three decades, Ballen’s instincts became more and more fantastical, his poetic and surrealist impulses gaining momentum and eventually taking over his storytelling impulse in the name of fiction […]

Klimt and Schiele: Drawn

at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Reviewed by Adam Kirsch Klimt and Schiele: Drawings by Katie Hanson MFA Publications, 150 pp., $49.95 Courtesy of The New York Review of Books As you enter “Klimt and Schiele: Drawn,” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, you are faced with a choice. Begin on the […]

Rashid Johnson: The Rainbow Sign

at David Kordansky Gallery (Through May 19, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Viscous black liquids cascade down the picture planes as scrawled drawings of agonized grimaces and anxious eyes confront the viewer at every turn. Indeed, Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Rashid Johnson’s current David Kordansky exhibition, The Rainbow Sign is a masterclass in haunting and subtly […]

Chaim Soutine: Flesh

at the Jewish Museum, NYC (through September 16, 2018) Reviewed by Will Heinrich Courtesy of The New York Times The most well-known story about Chaim Soutine has him alarming his Montparnasse neighbors by bringing in fresh sides of beef to paint, and dousing the carcasses, as he turned out one gory, ecstatic still life after another, with […]

Dangerous Poetics: Baal and the Resurrection of Fassbinder

by Alci Rengifo The poet wanders the world, his soul a caldron of anarchic nihilism. Thus we are introduced to a young Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Volker Schlöndorff’s Baal. Based on a 1918 play by the legendary German playwright Bertolt Brecht, this 16mm work, vivid and wild, has remained largely unseen since it was first broadcast […]

Stray Dog Of Tokyo, Daidō Moriyama

by Ian Buruma Daidō Moriyama: Record edited by Mark Holborn Thames and Hudson, 424 pp., $70.00 Provoke: Between Protest and Performance—Photography in Japan 1960/1975 edited by Diane Dufour and Matthew S. Witkovsky, with Duncan Forbes and Walter Moser Steidl/Le Bal/Fotomuseum Winterthur/ Albertina/Art Institute of Chicago, 679 pp., $75.00 (paper) Daido Tokyo by Daidō Moriyama Paris: […]

Revenge Is Feminist Body-Horror For The Me Too Moment

Reviewed by Kristy Puchko Caked in blackening blood and punctuated by girlish flares like a pretty pink star earring, writer/director Coralie Fargeat’s feature debut Revenge is a jaw-dropping thriller that’s both nail-bitingly brutal and fiercely feminist. Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz stars as an aspiring actress whose hard-partying weekend with her rich, married beau turns deadly, then becomes […]

High & Dry: Land Artifacts – Visions of the Desert

at the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster (through July 15) Opening Reception, Saturday, May 12 from 4-6PM by Genie Davis A beautiful and evocative series of photographs form the centerpiece of a stunning exhibition at the Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, which explores things left behind in the desert. These “things” are not just physical […]

Hank Willis Thomas: What We Ask Is Simple

at Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC (through May 12, 2018) Reviewed by Angelica Villa Hank Willis Thomas’s What We Ask is Simple, at Jack Shainman Gallery, is a graphic montage of 20th century plight and redemption. Using iconic imagery of modern protest with an advanced photographic method, these works become fully perceivable in form and content while […]

Melting Point: Movements in Contemporary Clay

the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles Reviewed by Christopher Michno Figuratively shouldering the weight of the world in his performance El Peso de la Tierra (2017 – 2018), Armando Cortes dragged a piece of clay equal to his own weight a quarter of a mile along Wilshire Boulevard, from Chris Burden’s Urban Light installation to the […]

Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas

at the Seattle Art Museum Reviewed by Lorraine Heitzman Figuring History, at The Seattle Art Museum, raises the question, “How do we perceive that which isn’t there?” For Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, and Mickalene Thomas, that is not a rhetorical question. For these three generations of African American painters, the absence of people of color in […]

An Interview With Rumble’s Executive Producer Stevie Salas

by Cynthia Biret The recent documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World is a revelation, from Link Wray’s monumental influence on the landscape of music, to the legendary stars paying tribute to the songs and rhythms of indigenous cultures whose struggles were hidden from history for far too long. The line up of celebrities in this documentary […]

The Triplets of Belleville Cine-Concert

at The Barclay Theater, Irvine Reviewed by Nancy Kay Turner The Triplets of Belleville (2003), a French-Canadian, wildly inventive and idiosyncratic animated film with no dialogue (just sound effects and simulated speech) has an exuberant original Oscar-winning soundtrack (more on that later). The plot is ostensibly about a boy, a dog, a grandmother and a […]

A Word With Artist And Activist Barbara Carrasco

by Pancho Lipschitz Barbara Carrasco was starving. She had just dropped off her husband, the artist Harry Gamboa Jr., at LAX and driven cross-town to meet me at their old hangout, Phillipe’s. As we sat down with French dip sandwiches and talked about her life and work I realized that underneath the easy laugh and unpretentious […]

David Hockney: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life

at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Through July 29, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch What is the value of community? For David Hockney, one of Britain’s most prominent living painters, the circle of friends, fellow artists, and employees joyfully and intimately rendered in his current Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) exhibition, […]

Cargo Is A Uniquely Exhilarating Zombie Thriller

Reviewed by Kristy Puchko Who will we be at the end of the world? This is the nerve-gnawing question at the heart of Cargo, a post-apocalyptic zombie thriller that feels like the lovechild of Pat Frank’s nuclear war novel Alas, Babylon and George Romero’s Living Dead films. Zombies are a threat on the fringe of its Australian […]

Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. And The Pulitzer

by Seren Sensei Kendrick Lamar recently made history as the first non-jazz, non-classical music artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, for 2017’s DAMN. Immediately it was a polarizing move. Many felt it promptly elevated Lamar’s status to “Greatest Of All Time,” catapulting him into a cohort that includes the likes of Nas and […]