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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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SIN, a Gritty and Sublime Biopic of Michelangelo

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Paul D'Agostino, David Boffa and Thomas Micchelli February 20, 2021February 19, 2021

Andrei Konchalovsky’s film depicts an artist full of ambition, paranoia, loathing, and regret.

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Don DeLillo’s Dark Prism

by Paul D'Agostino October 17, 2020November 5, 2020

In his deftly hewn new novel, The Silence, DeLillo disconnects us from our devices, wreaking havoc on our human fragility.

Posted inArt

Finding Rapture Where You Don’t Expect It

by Paul D'Agostino September 7, 2019September 8, 2019

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

Avatar photo by Paul D'Agostino and Thomas Micchelli March 23, 2019March 22, 2019

Depraved, a soulful indie take on Frankenstein, proves the perennial relevance of Mary Shelley’s monstrous creation.

Posted inArt

Jim Osman’s Off-Kilter Arcadia

by Paul D'Agostino February 9, 2019February 9, 2019

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.

Posted inArt

Instagram Cats

by Paul D'Agostino September 22, 2018September 22, 2018

Sharon Butler’s new paintings based on iPad drawings are telling you, quite frankly, that surfaces matter.

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Something Happened in DC

by Paul D'Agostino September 1, 2018January 4, 2021

Or did it?

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Cuba at the Cusp

by Paul D'Agostino July 8, 2018July 9, 2018

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

by Paul D'Agostino June 3, 2018June 6, 2018

A slew of new books rethinks the Renaissance in general and Leonardo da Vinci in particular.

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The Scribes Somehow Survive

Avatar photo by Paul D'Agostino and Thomas Micchelli May 5, 2018January 4, 2021

The soldiers are killed, and the jesters change their names.

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Monstrous and Touching Stories Within Stories

by Paul D'Agostino April 8, 2018April 8, 2018

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

by Paul D'Agostino November 4, 2017November 3, 2017

Didier William’s slithery forms surge forth and recede within a sphere of visual gravitas — heaving, throbbing, breathing.

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