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.
The Jewish Museum’s exhibition exploring the final works of modernist painter Paul Klee itself fails in its attempts to modernize the artist.
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‘Late Shift’ is a paen to the nursing profession, but it manages to entertain as well as instruct.
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A new revival of the 1956 classic shows that few directors have seen the estimation of their work elevate quite as drastically as Douglas Sirk.
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Musical madness ensued when Ann-Margret collided with the British Invasion sound.
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A season at the Metrograph further establishes the Russian director’s claim to be a fine comedic filmmaker.
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However technologically advanced humans have become, we still get scared by things that go bump in the night.
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New documentary ‘André Is An Idiot’ sends up the profound consequences of one man’s choice not to have a colonoscopy.
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There are much better ways to celebrate American art than to pay a visit to the 2026 Whitney Biennial.
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In retrospect director Michael Crichton used ‘Westworld’ as a dry run for the ‘Jurassic Park’ franchise.
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‘Gunfighter Paradise’ will strike many as nettlesome, but others will find in it promise to be seen and pleasures to be gleaned.
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Director Emilie Blichfeldt was clearly inspired by 16th-century Dutch painters as well as the Brothers Grimm.
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Morgan Neville’s new documentary is a valentine to “the cute Beatle,” though not without thorns.
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