Chris Kraus made nine films between 1982 and 1995, each of which is on display at her solo exhibition, In Order to Pass at Chateau Shatto in downtown LA. Most are familiar with Kraus as the creator of I Love Dick, her feminist (?) epistolary novel about female desire...
Chris Kraus
Chris Kraus: She Loved Dick
“Get off Bonnie Brae!” Chris Kraus shouts from the car speakerphone when I resort to calling her for directions. I’m lost in MacArthur Park, a neighborhood that borders downtown Los Angeles, looking for the writer/critic’s house. I wasn’t sure if Kraus raised her...
Editor’s Letter
Not so long ago on a return flight to LA, I was sitting next to a young Boston couple who had never been to the West Coast before. I asked them what the first thing they wanted to do was when they landed. They said they wanted to eat at Del Taco. I tried to hide my...