By: Devin McKinney

Deliverance from chaos and meaningless is their obsession.

By: David Smay

Revenge and cruelty are the wicked core of his films.

By: Adam McGovern

Bridging irrecon­cilable ideas was the matrix of his art.

By: Adrienne Crew

“The Beguiling of Merlin” tells this painter’s own life story.

By: Ingrid Schorr

“I don’t like turgid, voluminous sentences.”

By: Mike Fleisch

The most scrupulously self-aware of comedians.

By: Anthony Miller

The first scholar to take avant-garde film that seriously.

By: Erik Davis

The most heavy metal of fin-de-siècle French artists.

By: Jerrold Freitag

He was mindful of how horrible we can make one another.

By: Devin McKinney

The individual’s mastication in the teeth of the modern state.

By: Devin McKinney

Harris is the Jack Lemmon of now.

By: Patrick Cates

The nonsensical nihilist who reduces the tattoo ad absurdum.

By: Tor Aarestad

“Perfection to D, is quite essential / He has to live up to his potential.”

By: Robert Wringham

“Humour can get in under the door while serious­ness is still fumbling at the handle.”

By: Jacob Mikanowski

New York, Belgium, the Symbolists, Dylan, Tintin, vice, punk.