The Secret Screen
14 stories
Aug 25, 2026 Venezia 83: Opening with a Printing Press Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch on opening night; twin sisters sharing one soul; a jury led by Maggie Gyllenhaal — the wo... Aug 23, 2026 Worlds to Reread: Arles and the Art of the Second Look A staged idyll on the festival poster, a film director photographing nothing in particular, a Senegalese artist stepping... Aug 22, 2026 Catherine Opie: The Argument of the Wall Blood-red walls in Playfair's Greek Revival halls; a sixteenth-century Madonna, a Blue-Period Picasso, and eighty of Cat... Aug 5, 2026 Ana Mendieta: The Body Left in the Earth Mud, fire, flowers, blood and a body-shaped absence: Ana Mendieta made actions designed to vanish, then gave film and ph... Jul 20, 2026 Japanese Women Photographers: The Other Half of the Archive Twenty-seven women, two hundred works, one bad habit broken. At The Photographers' Gallery, Japanese photography is reto... Jul 19, 2026 Hiroshi Sugimoto: When Silver Goes Extinct Sixty gelatin silver prints. Thirteen series. A medium the artist knows is dying. At MOMAT, Hiroshi Sugimoto does not mo... Jul 17, 2026 The Lucas Museum: A Building That Wants to Be a Character Renoir beside a lightsaber, illustration beside cinema, a green-roofed hull by Ma Yansong. The Lucas Museum of Narrative... Jun 22, 2026 Catherine Breillat: The Sleeping Beauty France's great provocateur takes on Sleeping Beauty — and refuses to let her merely sleep. Catherine Breillat's La Bel... Jun 18, 2026 The Camera at Two Hundred Two hundred years ago a Frenchman left a pewter plate in the light for the better part of a day and came back to find th... May 18, 2026 Alex Prager and the Art of Mise-en-Scène She builds her photographs the way a director builds a scene: synthetic wigs, retro costume, a heroine frozen mid-story.... Mar 2, 2015 The Fund That Saves Women's Cinema It is the only program in the world that exists to save films in which women were essential. On the Women's Film Preserv... Jun 18, 2013 Becoming Stanley Kubrick: The Director Before the Director Before the films, there was a camera. At seventeen Stanley Kubrick was selling photographs to Look magazine; by twenty-o...