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