times is pleased to present an evening of performance and video celebrating the seventh issue of The Whitney Review of New Writing. The night features comedian, clown, and recovering art critic Christina Catherine Martinez presenting the New York premiere of her hilarious multimedia satire Modern Times, alongside a program of video art curated by Molly Soda on view throughout the night.

Modern Times refracts the disorder of the democratic experiment through the unlikely lens of beloved discount retail chain Ross Dress for Less. Part stand-up, part degraded performance lecture, and entirely unhinged, the work delivers a surreal and sharply funny portrait of consumerism, feminism, and the burdens of overthinking.

The seventh issue of The Whitney Review of New Writing marks three years of the project’s evolving interdisciplinary approach to literary criticism. The new issue features conversations between Christina Catherine Martinez and Ariana Reines, Darius James and Taylor Lewandowski, Lisa Carver and Esra Padgett, and Sophie Becker with Bonnie Erickson, the designer of Miss Piggy; essays by Cristine Brache, manuel arturo abreu, and Savannah Knoop; poetry by Precious Okoyomon; and over 70 short-form reviews: contributors like A. S. Hamrah, Grace Byron, Tash Nikol, Drew Zeiba, Blush Bullseye, Funto Omojola, Brad Phillips, Saam Niami, Morgan Becker, Eric Schwartau, Skype Williams, Paul Kopkau, and Mark Iosifescu respond to new writing across fiction, performance, poetry, art, theory, politics, and the in-between.

Hot off the press: copies of The Whitney Review will be available, as well as the new expanded edition of Christina Catherine Martinez’s collection of art criticism Aesthetical Relations, released this May from Hesse Press.