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 […]
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Amy Lincoln: Twilight zone
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Luminous, though an overused adjective in art writing, is an apt one for Amy Lincoln�s edgy new paintings, mainly of […]
Art on paper — and in practice
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Like VOLTA, the Art on Paper fair on Pier 36 was a modestly gauged and user-friendly alternative to the massive […]
Paul D�Agostino�s pictorial discursiveness
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Given the demonstrated capability, energy, and ambition of Bushwick artist, gallerist, and all-purpose cultural maven Paul D�Agostino, that he would […]
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 […]
Fred Valentine’s grunge sensibility
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Fred Valentine made his wryly haunting charcoal chiaroscuro drawings of real people — some sweet and tender others damaged and […]
Art and Fiction: Petrushevskaya and the painter’s whirl
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / If they are successful, artists transport those who view their work to a different visual and psychic environment that nonetheless […]
Miracle on 24th Street: Allison Miller, Odili Donald Odita, Cary Smith
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / For all the fine work to be found in New York galleries, even in Chelsea it�s rare to encounter […]
Hermine Ford’s order and disruption
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Hermine Ford’s Tribeca loft, which she and her husband, painter Robert Moscovitz, purchased decades ago, comprises their home […]
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 […]
Sense and sensibility at Lennon, Weinberg
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Though skewed towards this century, the paintings in Lennon Weinberg�s elegantly expansive group show �A Few Days,� from all twenty […]
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 […]
Anne Neukamp�s elegant nostalgia
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Painters who accept the challenge of trying to assimilate the advance of technology and metamorphosis of visual culture to the […]
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 […]
Stern verve: Joseph Zito at Lennon, Weinberg
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The artist’s weight in ominous lead slabs, a combat helmet spilling with rose petals — in another artist’s hands these conceptual pieces would probably seem trite or overbearing. But Joseph Zito’s unerringly fine calibrations of irony combined with his formidable technical range and astutely Gober-esque deployment of different materials — all on full display in installations cagily concatenated for a thirty-year retrospective at Lennon Weinberg in Chelsea — enables him to steamroller cliche and proceed directly to cool-eyed poignancy.
