Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / During the pre-Mad Men golden age of roadside America, advertising billboards set a tone of warm and friendly commercialism. Perhaps […]
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Elizabeth Murray�s magnificent tensions
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Elizabeth Murray (1940�2007) was one of art�s gloriously purposeful paradoxes. Her work is irrepressibly bold yet insistently nuanced; liberated in […]
Art and Film: Ruben Ostlund’s bloated indignation
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The art world and the bourgeoisie are taking a cinematic beating this year. Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and […]
Art and Film: Noah Baumbach’s New York state of mind
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is arguably Noah Baumbach’s best movie since The Squid and the Whale, and seems sure to […]
Leslie Wayne: Beyond painterly
Contributed by Sharon Butler and Jonathan Stevenson / Leslie Wayne, in transcendently clever new work on view at Jack Shainman Gallery through October 21, has […]
Art and Film: Aronofsky�s Bosch-esque mother!
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Albert Oehlen is perhaps foremost among visual artists seeking to capture the jangled frenzy of the Internet Age, having done […]
Art and film: Kogonada and Modernism in �Columbus”
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Columbus is a serenely penetrating postmodern film, acted with realistic understatement and set in the eponymous city in Indiana � […]
Art and film: �Detroit� and Faulkner�s truth
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / William Faulkner famously said, �The past is never dead. It�s not even past.� That is a key truth about one […]
Film: A strategic retreat�s smirk of defiance in DUNKIRK
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson /In his paradoxically granular war epic Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan assumes viewers know that the British Army�s 1940 strategic retreat from the […]
Adirondack idyll: Jay Invitational of Clay, Rockwell Kent, Ausable Chasm & more
Contributed by Sharon Butler and Jonathan Stevenson / Some artists�go upstate to get away from the art world in the summer, and others gather an�art […]
Art and Film: Ghost as witness
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / George Eliot said, wisely, that our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. For the great […]
Art and Film: Not so simple folk (art)
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / According to Aisling Walsh�s irrepressibly winning Maudie (2016), Maud Dowley, plagued by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, was through no fault of […]
Art and Film: The life and death of a cinephilic boomtown
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / A somewhat film-nerdy set of historical facts gave rise to found-footage maven Bill Morrison�s extraordinarily artful and expansive documentary Dawson […]
Art and Film: Wajda�s final word on art and politics
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson /�Wladyslaw Strzeminski, the reluctant hero of Afterimage, the great Polish director Andrzej Wajda�s last film before his death at age 90 […]
Art and Film: Stefan Zweig and the artist�s abdication
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / If poet Pablo Neruda weaponized his talent and his plight to stand against authoritarian forces in his native Chile and […]
