Peter Lucas

Peter Lucas reviews the exhibition "Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work," on view at the Menil Collection through April 23, 2023.

Peter Lucas on the films of Melvin van Peebles, a pioneer in African American cinema.

“For me, collage is based on collision. And I think that collision is indebted to the chance encounter.”

This new collection of video transmissions comes from makers in various states of disruption and contemplation, and goes out to a public more receptive than ever to short, immediate, poetic expressions "of our times.”

This week, On Video spotlights two landmark films by artist Arthur Jafa available online.

Sure, it’s a little weird to catch half a Bergman film at 3 a.m., or an Italian horror film in the afternoon between Zoom meetings. But these are weird times.

This week’s picks especially benefit from better sound than your laptop speakers.

Len Lye and Norman McLaren were the first artists to create “direct animation” films, and both were deeply interested in combining the disciplines of visual art and music to create new experiences of image, sound, and movement. 

This installment of On Video focuses on two very different films by African-American actor and director Ivan Dixon: the 1964 realist drama "Nothing But A Man," and the 1973 political thriller "The Spook Who Sat By The Door."

The figures at the center of this week’s two spotlights — John Berger and Marshall McLuhan — are well known, at least in art circles, though these programs don’t seem to be.

For this first installment, I want to bring your attention to the often-overlooked TV show 'Soul!' of which I’d encountered bootlegs over the years.

A landmark of African American independent cinema by Dallas-born director Billy Woodberry.

The Media Center’s upcoming anniversary series will shed light on some fantastic slivers of its history as it presents a photography exhibition, guest talks, and free-admission screenings of narrative, documentary, and experimental films.

"He and the de Menils did some big-idea thinking, and committed themselves to getting it done in Houston."

The documentary acknowledges one woman’s noble act of refusal to let the flow of ephemeral media go unquestioned.

Starting today, I am taking over Glasstire’s Instagram feed for one week, and will be posting a collage of images, fragments, and tidbts relating to what hit screens in 1969.

This broken landscape of self-involved cluster-narratives reflects our contemporary culture scarily well.

The infamous film documents the 1972 U.S. tour of rock group the Rolling Stones; it has never been officially distributed theatrically or released on any home-video format.

There’s something at the core of Blake's creative process that has allowed him to simultaneously construct and live within varied imagined musical worlds: cinema.

The legendary Cuban-American designer-filmmaker cut to black last week at the age of 83. You may not know his name, but you’ve likely seen his work and have definitely seen his influence.