Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Evident in the transfixing Bruce Conner retrospective �Bruce Conner: It�s All True� at MoMA is a probing eye that seeks […]
Screens
Art and film: Growing up at 70 Hester Street with Thomas Nozkowski and Joyce Robins
Contributed by Casimir Nozkowski / I grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a building that was once a synagogue, a whiskey […]
Art and Film: Robert Cenedella�s legitimacy
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 […]
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: 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 […]
Channel surfing with Tomas Vu
I was watching House of Cards last night, Season 3, Episode 3–the one in which the coarse and cagey Russian President Petrov makes a state […]
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 […]
Two Coats’ movie pick: Adventureland
Director Greg Mottola (Daytrippers and Superbad) has been called the new John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink, etc.), but Mottola’s […]
