Iggy Cortez

Arts: No Longer a Four Letter Word

Someone suggested I shouldn't be navel-gazing in my senior column-but I wouldn't be true to the spirit of Columbia otherwise.

By Iggy Cortez | Apr 30 12:00 am ET

The Horror of Apocalypse Then

While you may cringe at the easy play on words, Apocalypse Then is a strangely appropriate title for the Morgan Library and Museum's fascinating exhibit in honor of a new facsimile of Las Huelgas M

By Iggy Cortez | Apr 6 12:00 am ET

Dean's Display of Trees and Time Machines

When asked by a fellow Columbia student what Tacita Dean's work is like, I told her to imagine that chapter in To the Lighthouse when time passes throughout the house, and to picture it in film.

By Iggy Cortez | Apr 3 12:00 am ET

Closing, Opened and Opening: Harlem to Chelsea

Over the coming weeks and months, dozens of gallery and museum shows will close forever, and dozens more will emerge to take their place.

By Iggy Cortez | Jan 26 12:00 am ET

Brit Bookies Vie for Man Booker Prize

One day, some precocious undergraduate will write a thesis about the interplay between literary-prize bookmakers and the public discourse that frames highbrow literature.

By Iggy Cortez | Sep 21 12:00 am ET

Certainly Beautiful, Not Quite Damned

It is a commonplace myth that great artists have a propensity for tragedy, and often the intensity of their biographies risks overshadowing the objective, physical qualities of their work.

By Iggy Cortez | Sep 6 12:00 am ET

The Boring and the Beautiful

A common, albeit unfounded criticism of Kar Wai Wong's 2046 is that the movie's re-evocation of Wong's favored themes of memory and loss find the auteur merely repeating himself.

By Iggy Cortez | Apr 28 12:00 am ET

Why Using Heroin and Raising Children Just Don't Mix

There is a certain irony in the title of Olivier Assayas' 10th feature film, Clean.

By Iggy Cortez | Apr 28 12:00 am ET

Forget the Sweat, Try Tai Chi

While you will be hard pressed to find any Columbia student who resents the warm weather, it will none the less bring a considerable amount of guilt for those of us who are neither athletically inc

By Iggy Cortez | Apr 21 12:00 am ET

Polish Filmmaker Sees New Light

Not too long ago, there used to be something known as European art house cinema, and the late Krzysztof Kieslowski ranked as one of its highest practitioners.

By Iggy Cortez | Apr 21 12:00 am ET

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