Film Review
To Be Alone With Your Thoughts in '70s New York
Fred Camper's contemplative film "Suicide Note" was born out of grief and a city in collapse.
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Film Review
Artavazd Pelechian’s Distant Connections
Through his “distance montage” technique, the Armenian filmmaker’s masterpieces are built around impressions, not stories.
Film Review
Barbara Hammer Through Her Own Lens
“Barbara Forever” is both a biography and a conversation the late filmmaker has with herself.
Film Review
A New Richard Avedon Documentary Lets Him Down
Director Ron Howard is a gun for hire, and it shows in this conventional documentary about the famed photographer.
Guide
12 Art Books to Kick Off Summer
A novel lampooning the art world, Megan O’Grady’s meditation on art and living, the man who defined color in the dictionary, Nan Goldin’s tender photo essay, and more.
Film Review
The Making of a Maintenance Artist
A new documentary traces Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s decades-long practice of spotlighting marginal, unpaid, and feminine labor.
Preview
What Art Films to See at Sundance This Year
Art-related features at the film festival run the gamut from niche subjects to crowd pleasers.
Film Review
There’s More to Look at Than Learn in 100 Nights of Hero
The film faithfully translates the feminist commentary of Isabel Greenberg's graphic novel while deemphasizing its more complex narrative techniques.
Feature
Drunk Santas, Yoko Ono, and Other Joys of DOC NYC
From the disruptive nonsense of Santacon to Kwame Brathwaite’s “Black is Beautiful” movement, here’s what to see or stream.
Book Review
Before Wonder Woman, There Was Fantomah
Fletcher Hanks, a cantankerous cartoonist who was active only from 1939 to ’41, left behind a complex legacy and bizarre body of work. A new book offers clues about his enigmatic life.
Feature
The Museum Donors Accused of Sucking California Dry
Pistachio Wars argues that billionaires Lynda and Stewart Resnick are harming California’s environment as they artwash their damage.
Film Review
The True-ish Story of a Rediscovered Schiele Masterpiece
The new film Auction layers an awful lot of melodramatic meat on the skeleton of the facts to create its vision of the art world.