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Mario Naves is a Contributor for the Sun

​Mr. Naves is an artist, teacher, and critic based in New York City. His…

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New Film ‘Karaoke’ Poses Question: Is ‘Coming of Age’ Applicable to the Geriatric Set?

What’s lovely about ‘Karaoke’ is how it maintains a tried-and-true story arc while traversing byways that haven’t necessarily been tried and encompassing truths that are, in the end, complicated.

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Living by the Sword: MoMA Dips Its Toe Into a Master of Chanbara

Director Kenji Misumi dedicated himself to ‘sword fighting’ pictures. Offers to direct more elevated fare fell on deaf ears. Like American oater auteurs Delmer Daves and Bud Boetticher, Misumi was to the genre born.

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Now at New York’s Galleries, ‘Everything in the World’ and More

The exhibition at Chelsea’s Pace Gallery doesn’t capture Thomas Nozkowski at his best. Yet all of the pieces speak to a talent forever scuttling out from under its considerable know-how in the grand search for something true. Here is an art that exhilarates.

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Documentary Casts a Topless Dancing Pioneer as ‘a Symbol of Empowerment’

‘Carol Doda Topless at The Condor’ is either the saddest movie to come down the pike in recent memory or a gauge of just how confused we are at this cultural moment.

Via Picturehouse
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William Shatner Is Granted an Indulgence, in the Form of a Documentary, ‘You Can Call Me Bill’

Should you be one of the millions of fans who have a soft spot for the actor who embodied the trials and tribulations of James T. Kirk, you’ll forgive the digressions of Alexandre O. Philippe’s film.

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Art Historian Pushes Against His Profession’s Tendency Toward Interpretive Overreach

Peter Hecht is an advocate for facts on the ground or, rather, on the canvas. He’s intent on returning the artwork’s agency to the subject under discussion.

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