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88 CULTURED 9 10 Like all art, film is a medium that allows—even urges—the creative forces behind it to push boundaries and tackle topics that are provocative, taboo or uncharted. And for the last four decades, the New Directors/New Films festival—organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art in New York—has brought such films to the forefront while simultaneously spotlighting emerging directorial talent. This year's selections are no different. The eight works chosen so far are not only diverse, springing from 13 countries, but most have already garnered critical acclaim from prestigious cinematic authorities like Cannes and the Venice and Toronto film festivals. March 16 to 27. newdirectors.org A PIONEERING FEMINIST voice from the 1960s, Betty Tompkins has produced work dominated by hyper-real renderings of sex acts and organs. This month, her signature bluntness is blown up to epic proportions for the FLAG Art Foundation, where the artist installed 1,000 hand-painted canvases inscribed with different phrases for women, ranging from the flirtatious to the violent. flagartfoundation.org A still from Evolution, 2015, directed by Lucile Hadžihalilovic COURTESY OF ALCHEMY; ©BETTY TOMPKINS, FLAG ART FOUNDATION