Blair McClendon

Blair McClendon is a writer, editor, and filmmaker. He lives in New York. (February 2025)

Dress It Up, Then Make It Real

“I’m a believer in the proscenium. An increasingly high-definition fidelity to life bores me; the point is to look through a veil.”

February 15, 2025

It’s Technicolor

Alvin Ailey is one of those artists, like Picasso and Faulkner, whose name is shorthand for a whole field.

Edges of Ailey

an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, September 25, 2024–February 9, 2025

February 13, 2025 issue

A Brutal Place Playing at Paradise

The filmmaker James Benning invites us to look closely at American landscapes and peer into their history.

August 31, 2022

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