Email Author Ed Halter

2006 Stories by Ed Halter

• Vision Quest

  published February 28, 2006

  Bucking the gallery trend for picking kids fresh from MFA programs, the moving-image portion of this spring's Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of... More >>

• Chappelle's Show

  published February 21, 2006

  Pondering a Dave Chappelle film directed by Michel Gondry conjures up some bizarre cinematic prospects—dancing mandalas of belligerent black... More >>

• The Second Civil War

  published February 7, 2006

  Kevin Willmott's scathingly sharp CSA: The Confederate States of America opens with a quote from George Bernard Shaw: "If you're going to... More >>

• '9 Drawings for Projection'

  published February 7, 2006

  South African artist William Kentridge makes animations via an idiosyncratic, self-taught method: He creates several charcoal drawings, then... More >>

• Jabbering Doc Offers Art-Celeb Flash With Little Substance

  published January 24, 2006

  Funny how once you've been in New York a few years, you might attend some party peppered with worthies, drink and jabber nonstop, then leave... More >>

• To Toes Action-Film Line With a Publicity-Savvy Police Story

  published January 17, 2006

  Well executed but ultimately unsatisfying, Breaking News centers its cops-and-robbers plot around a clever meta-media twist that... More >>