Susan Sontag

The Art of Camp Eludes K-11's Confused Directorial Mess

Elliott Stein, 1928 - 2012

By Nick Pinkerton Elliott Stein, a longtime contributor to The Village Voice, as well as

Q&A: Sontag Shogun On Playing Visual Art Installations, Lionel Richie, And Susan Sontag

There's a tangible loneliness to Sontag Shogun's music, but there's a wistful loveliness present, too. The Brooklyn trio assumes a sort of songwriting assembly line, with Ian Temple's emotive, tremulous piano figures falling prey to Jesse Perlstein's legion of atmospheric, laptop-catalogue samples a ... More >>

Tokyo Story

Camp Is Dead--And Glee, Gaga, And Spielberg Killed It

That's the message of this Observer article by Daniel D'Addario, which points to the way camp came out of the closet, became self-conscious, stopped being an in-joke, and just ain't campy anymore.

Avant-Garde January! It's Koltes, the TEAM, Toshiki Okada, and, er, Ira Glass

A critical dive into the Under the Radar, Other Forces, and Coil festivals

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

The Paris Review gets a makeover

Paul Thek Gets a Major Retrospective at the Whitney

Fake meat, real artist

Partying Down at Bill Buckley's House

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 17, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 38 A Day at the Buckleys: Big Blight at Great Elm By Barbara Long SHARON, Connecticut -- Several months before Apollo 13's crew walked out on "Hair," setting us straight once and for all on just who the ... More >>

War Critics Rush to Join Spock

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 18, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 14 Viet Critics: They Put Themselves on the Line by Sally Kempton Last Sunday night at Town Hall more than 500 people put themselves on the line in active support of draft resistance. They were members ... More >>

This Week's Voice: tUnE-yArDs, Lil Wayne's Rebirth, Alan Lomax in Haiti, Steve McQueen, the Red Riding Triptych, and More

tUnE-yArDs, now proudly R-rated. Photo by Chrissy Piper.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla conducts an occasionally embarrassing chat with one-woman feral folk sensation tUnE-yArDs (contains sex talk!), Brandon Soderberg catches up with Howard Stern's favorite headbanger, Richard Chri ... More >>

Why This Decade Sucked, Reason #7: Guilty Pleasures Without Guilt

​ We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. Previous reasons here, here, and here. ​If you had told us, at the beginning of this awful decade, that intelligent people would one day be writing essays -- serial essays, yet -- on reality ... More >>

Clip Job: The Gay Agenda Exposed! In 1966!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 7, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 25 Pop Goes Homosexual By Vivian Gornick Last August there appeared on the cover of the magazine One a photograph of a young man dressed as an ancient Roman warrior in a toga and thonged sandal-shoes; on t ... More >>

17th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival

A Fetishist's Devotion Marks Black Dynamite

'Absolute Wilson'

A Honky Château Overrun by Drunk-ass Muppets

Beauties and Beastliness

Memento Mori

Negotiating the distance between extremes of feeling and intellect

Dungeon Masters

In Morris's Iraq war monologues, power is the ultimate aphrodisiac

O Holy Knight

Sontag's timely reduction of Wagner's timeless opus

Docs Without Borders

An activist filmmaking collective wants to change the world—one documentary at a time

The Art of Dying

Isabelle Huppert brings suicide to life in Sarah Kane's final play

Blast From the (Recent) Past: A More Mature Fischerspooner

Atrocity Exhibition

An archival assemblage of World War I horrors ponders the political power of violent images

Letter to the Editor

Susan Sontag (1933-2004)

Remembering the voice of moral responsibility—and unembarrassed hedonism

Who's More Annoying Than Osama bin Laden?

Film

Letters

Catfight Scorecard: Humanity and Virtuosity 1, Loftiness 0

Burning Bush

Rushdie Rocks A Reading, Maestro Bumps The Quad, Tapis Rouge Goes Gay

Beating around the Bush: Writers get the word out on voting

The big picture: Rethinking the uses and meaning of images

Children's Crusades

The Kids Stay in the Picture

Wishful Seeing

On War-nography and Radical Willfulness

The Imperfect Storm

Fox and His Muse: Fassbinder Star Hanna Schygulla Revealed

The Rebirth of Cinema

Susan Sontag's Notes on Japanese Film

Managing the Unmanageable

The Jewish Museum Puts a Therapeutic Frame Around Transgressive Art About the Holocaust

All as It Had Been

Hollywood Revises History, Joins the Good Fight

What Women Want

Feminists Agonize Over War in Afghanistan

The Price of Unity

Our Greatest Danger Is Becoming the Same

Letters

Sick of Fancy

Letters

Sontag in Wonderland

Auteur Director Ivo van Hove Brings Some Radical Will to ‘Alice in Bed’

The Light Stuff

A Rough Guide to the Flash and Trash of Summer Reading

High Art in a Low Land

The 2000 Holland Festival

Debating the Death of Cinema

Lust for Lit