Earlier this month at Truesdell Elementary, in the last five minutes of one of my classes, I called for my students' attention. “Class, class!” I called. “Yes, yes,” they responded in unison. “I have ...

In her first feature, artist Laurie Simmons channels the self-examining spirit of her daughter Lena Dunham, but with less human detail and irony. There’s a gentle streak of defensiveness built into ...

Independent comedy-drama about a New York artist is a belated feature-film debut from prominent photographer Laurie Simmons, premiering in a sidebar at the Italian extravaganza. By Neil Young ...

It pains me to say it, but I am a failed artist. “Pains me” because nothing in my life has given me the boundless psychic bliss of making art for tens of hours at a stretch for a decade in my 20s and ...