Compass A&E

Walk through the Flower District in New York's Chelsea neighborhood and you'll find the queerest kept secret in the art scene. Whether showcasing James Bigood or Mark Beard, CLAMP invites you to intimate views of intimate work. Jess T. Dugen's enigmatic portraits are both sensual and bittersweet.

David Hockney found his inspiration painting the rippling aquatic blue surfaces of Calfornia's swimming pools, while New York artist Barbara Vaughn finds new ways of capturing those light reflecting waves through her camera's lens.

"When all the clouds darken up the skyway, there's a rainbow highway to be found." And when Thanksgiving is done, and even the leftovers are picked clean, there's still a way to entertain your family. Over 80 years later, MGM's adaption of L. Frank Baum's turn of the century fairy tale of the American Midwest dazzles.

Blond tumbles across the screen, blond hair catching the lights of the mall, refracting in the glimmer of the sun, as gold as the gold-painted convertible jalopy that stalks her.

Director Bong Joon-ho may have taken home the Oscar for his 2020 Best Picture winner "Parasite," but Park Chan-wook can still be credited for first bringing the twisty delights of South Korean psychological thrillers to a broad American audience.

The air of an era — aeronauts took their balloons to the skies while artists took to the outdoors, working en plein air. A new exhibit, which includes a mezzotint of Joseph Wright's "Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" opens on Nov. 19 at The Clark Museum in Williamstown, Mass.

"Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality," Victoria W.

A simple line curved upward into a horseshoe loop becomes one of the most evocative letters in the Modern English alphabet, the accusatory and self-reflective “U.” In the fractured shorthand language of texting “u” alone is a full sentence, a complete thought structured as an obligatory question.