Andrei Konchalovsky’s film depicts an artist full of ambition, paranoia, loathing, and regret.
Author Archives: Paul D'Agostino
Paul D'Agostino, Ph.D. is an artist, writer, translator and curator. He is former Art Editor at Brooklyn Magazine and The L Magazine, and he now contributes critical writings on art, film, and books to various publications, including Hyperallergic and Art Spiel. He is also Assistant Editor of Journal of Italian Translation, and a contributing translator and translation reviewer at Specimen: The Babel Review of Translations. More information about D'Agostino is available here, and you can find him as @postuccio on Instagram and Twitter.
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Don DeLillo’s Dark Prism
In his deftly hewn new novel, The Silence, DeLillo disconnects us from our devices, wreaking havoc on our human fragility.
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Finding Rapture Where You Don’t Expect It
An unattributed work can catch you off guard, forcing you to drop your defenses and simply look.
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A Frankenstein for the Forever Wars
Depraved, a soulful indie take on Frankenstein, proves the perennial relevance of Mary Shelley’s monstrous creation.
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Jim Osman’s Off-Kilter Arcadia
Osman’s suite of new sculptures might look like buildings, or the things within buildings: furniture, toyish tools, and strange-ified objects of interior design.
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Instagram Cats
Sharon Butler’s new paintings based on iPad drawings are telling you, quite frankly, that surfaces matter.
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Cuba at the Cusp
The images that foreshadow the turmoil of the Cuban Revolution jar you back to the precariousness of our times.
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For the Love of Leonardo
A slew of new books rethinks the Renaissance in general and Leonardo da Vinci in particular.
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The Scribes Somehow Survive
The soldiers are killed, and the jesters change their names.
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Monstrous and Touching Stories Within Stories
Fritz Böhm’s debut film Wildling is cloaked in mystery, dark and dank, occasionally bloody, sometimes shocking, and fantastically folkloric.
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A Haitian Artist’s Mesmerizing Eyes
Didier William’s slithery forms surge forth and recede within a sphere of visual gravitas — heaving, throbbing, breathing.