Film
A Cinematic Portrait of David Lynch’s Life and Art Before Film
The new documentary David Lynch: The Art Life is an engrossing account of the artist's early life, from childhood to film school.
David Lynch
Art
A Photographer of Unsettlingly Mundane, Lynchian Images
Roe Ethridge combines a commercial photography practice with his personal life to create diquieting images.
Art
John Malkovich Plays Your Favorite David Lynch Characters
For his latest project, "Playing Lynch," actor John Malkovich dressed up as all your favorite David Lynch characters, including Special Agent Dale Cooper and the Log Lady from cult '90s TV show Twin Peaks.
Art
Inside David Lynch’s Dream Worlds
David Lynch has been a stranger to the director’s chair for almost a decade now — since 2006’s Inland Empire, to be exact.
Art
Digital Distractions: 'Twin Peaks' Dance-Off, Skull Glitches, and an 18th-Century Opera Puzzle
Walk through a glitchy realm of skulls and flowers, have a Twin Peaks dance battle in the Black Lodge, alter an alternative reality, and experience an 18th-century opera as a puzzle.
Opinion
Colorizing the Lumière Brothers' Cinematograph
In 1895, brothers Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean Lumière patented their cinematograph — a hand-cranked motion-picture camera inside a wooden box that weighed 16 pounds — and shot their first film on it, of workers leaving the Lumière factory.
Art
The Pursuit of Art, 2014
The exhibitions that rippled through our cultural fabric over the past year, at least those occurring in and around New York, have registered the predictable number of highs and lows, though 2014 did manage to plumb one nadir unlikely to be matched for a good long time.
Art
Shrapnel from the Skies: The Paintings of David Lynch
PHILADELPHIA — “Is Mr. Lynch as compelling a fine artist as he has been a filmmaker?” That’s the challenge Ken Johnson throws down in his New York Times review of David Lynch: The Unified Field at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. And without missing a beat, “The short answer is no.”
Art
David Lynch Returns to His Roots in Philadelphia's Urban Decay
PHILADELPHIA — Before summoning unsettling images of horror out of the American everyday on film, David Lynch was a visual art student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Art
Fondation Cartier at 30: Universalized Eclectic Global Art in Forward Motion
PARIS — This is a vision of a universalized eclectic global art in forward motion: a relational aesthetic that seems to hover over many exhibitions in France as a great correctness that cannot be questioned, only tampered with.
Art
The Pursuit of Art, 2013
Memories fade. That’s the one good reason, as far as I can see, to compile an end-of-year list. It’s sometimes startling to retrace what attracted my attention over the course of a year; it is also instructive to determine where such a miscellany of shows fits in with ongoing areas of interest, and
Opinion
David Lynch's Abandoned Factory Photographs
David Lynch definitely knows an unnerving shot when he sees one. This is, after all, the filmmaker who brought us the distorted reality of Twin Peaks, culminating in the mind-melting Black Lodge and, well, absolutely everything in Eraserhead. Now Lynch is presenting two decades of photographs of fac