Is there a choice to be a hustler? That question, which flits onscreen in a flurry of bold black and white text, is posed to three iconic historical and fictional hustlers who sit on a futuristic dystopian panel that resembles purgatory for radicals in Michelle Handelman’s new multi-channel video installation Hustlers & Empires. Of course, … Continue reading
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Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s Cinematic Ode To Hustlers and Vintage Porn
Following in the footsteps and aesthetic of these cinematic visions of sex work, photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s exhibition Hustlers at the David Zwirner Gallery features diCorcia’s esteemed early 1990s photographs of hustlers in Los Angeles, as well as a more recent video installation Best Seen, Not Heard. Continue reading