By Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Kurt Cobain, the prince of grunge who took his own life in 1994 at age 27, would have disdained […]
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Surface prep at Centotto: Dunlap, Mahler, D�Acunto, DaWalt
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / �Something Naught,� the new group show at Centotto, Paul D�Agostino�s redoubtable Bushwick salon, gathers four abstract artists who take very […]
The Asymmetric Armory Show
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / The Modern section of the Armory Show was like an unruly museum-quality exhibition, showcasing one anointed (and usually dead) artist […]
Two Coats at Sundance: Misery, ambition and the creative life
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Every January throngs of industry strivers and film buffs congregate in the snowy streets of Park City for the Sundance […]
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. […]
Liam Everett�s unmooring machinations
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Liam Everett�s large paintings � on display in his show �Montolieu� at On Stellar Rays � are insidiously provocative. At […]
ON FILM: Wes Anderson’s big picture
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Art — especially painting — is an honored cinematic metaphor for culture, particularly as a symbol of civilization under siege. […]
ON FILM: Blonde on blondes
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / In the watching, video artist Shannon Plumb’s debut feature Towheads, which MoMA screened last week and has wisely purchased […]
ON FILM: Tornatore�s creepy art auctioneer in The Best Offer
Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) admiring his secret collection of ladies in Giuseppe Tornatore�s The Best Offer. Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / In Giuseppe Tornatore�s The […]
On film and painting: Repetitive stress
Guest contributor Jonathan Stevenson / Wall Street hustler Jordan Belfort and sculptor Camille Claudel had little in common, and the recent movies about the lives […]
LOVE: Robert Indiana’s hard-edged visual essays
Guest Contributor Jonathan Stevenson / �Robert Indiana: Beyond Love� at the Whitney unabashedly aims to extricate the artist from the public�s myopic reduction of his […]
From Marfa to Venice with Ellen Altfest
Guest contributor: Jonathan Stevenson / In �Showing A Little Leg� in the November issue of Harper�s, novelist Dan Keane offers a clever, peripatetic piece that […]
By any other name: Casualism at DODGE
Guest contributor: Jonathan Stevenson / Casualism � the explicit basis for Garis & Hahn�s group show �Dying on Stage� this past summer � is merely […]
Matthew Miller: One Painting’s Presence
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Some paintings have to be seen in person, up close, and without distraction to be fully appreciated. That is […]
Paul D’Agostino: Fear and Loathing in Purgatory
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Like an eccentric Brooklyn character in a Paul Auster novel, Paul D�Agostino � writer, curator, Italian literature scholar, and resolute […]
