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The Sacrifices of the Single-Mother Artist
Artists in Residence tells the story of Lois Dodd, Eleanor Magid, and Louise Kruger as they forged lives as working artists and single mothers in midcentury New York.
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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.
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Sharon Lockhart’s Beguiling Tableaus of Children in Nature
Windward pulls us into an almost prelapsarian vision of childhood existence on Newfoundland’s Fogo Island: no phones, no screens, no sense of impending climate crisis.
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The Slow, Easy Splendor of Peter Hujar’s Day
Taking its script from a 1974 recording of the artist talking to writer Linda Rosenkrantz, a new film offers a tender portrait of Hujar’s life before art-world fame.
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Mount Vesuvius Casts Its Shadow Over Below The Clouds
Gianfranco Rosi beautifully captures the unease of life in Naples, near the legendary volcano, and of modern times in his new film.
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Not Your Typical Art Heist Flick
Blue-collar art thefts were the inspiration for Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, which plumbs the conservative turn of the 1970s United States.
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Bunny Yeager’s Feminist Pin-Up Girls
A new documentary, Naked Ambition, centers the photographer’s woman-forward approach to the nude subject.
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Examining the Legacy of Fascist Cinema’s Grand Dame
A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl shows that aesthetics and politics are inextricably linked, and that no image is innocent when wielded by the state.
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At 82, Meredith Monk May Finally Get Her Due
A new documentary honors the underrecognized avant-garde artist’s prolific output and celebrates her singular vision.
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Who Are Museums Really For? And Can We Change Our Minds?
The film Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People) asks the questions: Who are the rightful custodians of artifacts, and what is the responsibility of museums to local communities?
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An Absurd Take on Masahisa Fukase’s Darkness
The ridiculous magical-realist flourish of an anthropomorphic raven cheapens his story and flattens the film’s engagement with his art.
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The Renaissance, but Make It Game of Thrones
A new documentary emphasizes the political intrigues of Da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.