An Artistic Termite Finds Hard-Won Elegance in Abstraction
Steve Greene’s ‘New Paintings’ marry the ungainly and the balletic with unexpected grace.
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Mr. Naves is an artist, teacher, and critic based in New York City. His writing has appeared in City Arts, the New Criterion,the New York Observer, Slate, the Spectator World, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
Steve Greene’s ‘New Paintings’ marry the ungainly and the balletic with unexpected grace.
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Léa Seydoux anchors an unsettling drama, told in English, French, and German, about a wife confronting horrifying allegations against her husband.
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‘Chasing Clouds’ evocatively explores how painters and photographers capture the sky’s fleeting forms.
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An elegant filmmaker who gave Hammer horror a craftsman’s care and a Gothic grandeur.
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Noah Segan’s film evokes the gritty Big Apple crime movies of the 1970s, anchored by an appealingly frazzled John Turturro.
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Judd Apatow’s Netflix documentary ‘Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald’ showcases a consummate comedian, even as the man himself remains elusive.
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‘Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America,’ at the Barnes Museum is one of the most exquisitely appointed exhibitions in recent memory.
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Ken Russell’s 1975 film ‘The Devils’ is finally being released in its definitive version — but does it amount to much more than artistic pretension and moral confusion?
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In ‘The Storytellers,’ Michael Gorra’s literary scholarship marries a writer’s clarity with a reader’s restless curiosity.
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For all its up-to-date relevance, Sara Robin’s ‘Your Attention Please’ is a gloss on the news, not news itself.
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Dara Van Dusen’s debut film ‘A Prayer for the Dying’ is a gritty survival story about faith and family.
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The New Museum explores its neighborhood’s colorful past through a cabinet of curiosities.
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