Cultural Omnivore No. 5

A Listing of What We Love Theater: VAGINAL DAVIS & LOUISE NEVELSON Chimera INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is proud to present, Chimera, a two-person show featuring two grandstanding, iconoclastic, and spectacular women. Through October 22, 2017 Invisible-Exports 89 ELDRIDGE STREET, NYC   Book: THERE ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAN BEYONCE Author: Morgan Parker Published: February 2017 Tin House Books, 80 pages Buy Here But there is nothing more beautiful … Continue reading Cultural Omnivore No. 5

My Pinup Girl 3 – Gloria Ríos

Gloria Ríos… singer, dancer, actress, first wife of the great Resortes and most importantly, the first woman to sing rock and roll in Mexican cinema.  As a kid, my grandmother and I were transfixed by her beauty and her bravado.  She was the girl gone mad with rock and roll fever.  Always decked out in a stunning frock and looking like a rocked-out Rita Hayworth … Continue reading My Pinup Girl 3 – Gloria Ríos

My Pinup Girls 2 – Maya Deren

Maya Deren…
Ukranian-born master of trance cinema, vanguard of the American avant-garde film movement and outspoken film theorist. Deren went on to influence Stan Brakhage and Kenneth Anger as well as David Lynch, particularly his movie “Lost Highway”. Maya’s first film, “Meshes of the Afternoon” cost a whopping $275 to make. She was a director, writer, cinematographer, editor, performer, entrepreneur, and self-promoting machine. Continue reading My Pinup Girls 2 – Maya Deren