Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / It might be tempting to conclude that David Humphrey is too facile a painter for his own damn good — that his […]
Tag: Jonathan Stevenson
Art and Film: The lives of artists
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck�s film Never Look Away concerns a German painter named Kurt Barnert (the charismatic Tom Schilling), but […]
Art and Film: Van Gogh’s sanity
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / “One man’s insanity is another man’s genius,” Joyce Carol Oates has written. In the popular imagination, though, Vincent Van Gogh […]
Warhol at the Whitney: A provocateur for all seasons
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / There are certainly strong generational reasons for the Whitney to mount “Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again,” its […]
The Great War and Modernism
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The First World War — known as the Great War before it became necessary to number them – is one […]
Art and Film: Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Trump�s reactionary public policy, which has institutionalized contempt for the advances in social justice forged in the United States over the […]
Art and Film: Meta�s meta in Madeline�s Madeline
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Writer-director Josephine Decker�s remarkably ambitious avant-garde film Madeline�s Madeline drills towards the molten core of the creative process and its […]
Soberly upbeat: Summer shows at DC Moore
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Summer is irrevocably a time for diversion and good cheer, but how much escapism can be indulged in good conscience is relative […]
Art and Film: John Callahan�s Higher Power
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Growing up in Portland, Oregon, John Callahan, who would become a cartoonist noted for his dark, warped humor, had been […]
On July 4th: The art of decency
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Leave No Trace, Debra Granik�s first dramatic movie since her Winter�s Bone ushered in Jennifer Lawrence eight years ago, is among the best and […]
Art and Film: The beautifully unlovely Nancy
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The artistic process comes up quite a bit in cinema. This month alone, three new movies feature protagonists who are […]
A strong, dark six-pack at Edward Thorp
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Edward Thorp Gallery�s �Turn of Thought,� which unfortunately just closed, was an especially good group show worthy of even retrospective […]
Art and Film: Paul Schrader�s risky business
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Like an opaque work of conceptual art, writer-director Paul Schrader�s First Reformed is a high-risk venture, laden with the potential for […]
Art and Film: Juliette Binoche is a painter on the prowl
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / In Let the Sunshine In (an awkward translation of the original title, Un Beau Soleil Interieur), French director Claire Denis� […]
Art and Film: Giacometti�s petulant eye
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti was renowned for his inability to finish artwork. It�s tempting to caricature that kind of chronic dissatisfaction […]
