Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Victor Kanefsky�s effervescent documentary Art Bastard casts 76-year old New York painter Robert Cenedella as a kind of aesthetic Robin […]
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Art and Film: Eva Hesse�s enduring disruption
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Eva Hesse, as portrayed in Marcie Begleiter�s superlatively penetrating Eva Hesse, sadly but exquisitely zoned in on mortality as the […]
Art and film: David Hockney’s world
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / David Hockney, in Randall Wright’s rather breezy documentary Hockney (at Film Society of Lincoln Center, extended through June 2), appears […]
Art and Film: War and art�s uneasy survival
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Russian director Alexander Sokurov�s Francofonia is a strange and intriguing film � a kind of avant-garde point-of-view documentary. Do not […]
Art and Film: Thief�s incomparable visual grit
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Michael Mann�s brilliant 1981 neo-noir film Thief � showing in BAM�s February 5-16 Mann retrospective � is paradoxically celebrated for […]
Art and Film: Women with dogs
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Two new films concern edgy women of the New York art scene: Lisa Immordino Vreeland�s Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict and […]
Art and Film: Painter-Spy in Bridge of Spies
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Bridge of Spies begins and ends with a painting. Steven Spielberg�s latest film is a penetrating and affecting consideration of […]
Art and Film: Alex Ross Perry�s little tyrant artist
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Alex Ross Perry�s gothic, resolutely arthouse chamber piece Queen of Earth is a fascinating study in the ominous subtext of […]
Art and Film: Jem Cohen�s faith in art
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / New York independent filmmaker Jem Cohen�s laconically moving Counting is quintessentially an artist�s movie. It is divided into fifteen segments, […]
Art and Film: Hell and high fashion
By Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Kurt Cobain, the prince of grunge who took his own life in 1994 at age 27, would have disdained […]
ON FILM: Art and Fraud
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Art forgery seems especially unsporting and misanthropic as non-violent crimes go, involving as it does the subversion of high culture. […]
Art and Film: Revenge of the casualists?
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Joe Angio�s winning rock documentary Revenge of the Mekons concerns a defiantly non-commercial punk-era British rock band that has kept […]
On Film: Mania, serenity and the creative process
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / What brings out the best in artists? In vivid terms, two recent movies, Bird People and Whiplash, respectively illustrate that […]
ON FILM: Hedge priest as anachronistic hero
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / John Michael McDonagh�s blackly satirical film Calvary, set in rural County Sligo in northwest Ireland, doesn�t lack ambition: it tackles […]
On FILM: Richard Linklater�s school of life
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Richard Linklater�s acclaimed movie Boyhood is as good as advertised � a forceful and mesmerizing story about growing up in […]
