Film
They Managed to Mess Up an Art Heist Movie
There must be a lesson in Vasilis Katsoupis’s film Inside about the vacuousness of the art market or the claustrophobia of exhibition spaces — I just don’t care.
Willem Dafoe
Film
In Remote Russia, Willem Dafoe Confronts His Demons
Abel Ferrara's Siberia is an alternately nightmarish and transcendent journey through the subconscious.
Film
In The Lighthouse, Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson’s Despair Becomes Our Own
Never content to simply depict its characters as their mental health erodes, the film seeks to make the viewer feel like they too are actually on the same path with them.
Art
Conjuring Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Final 24 Hours
LONDON — American director Abel Ferrara’s newest film documents the final 24 hours of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s life in an intelligent way, without rhetoric or prudery.
Performance
The Unremarkable Death of Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović, as you may have heard, is dead. She has died at the age of 67 and is being celebrated at the Park Avenue Armory with a production by pioneering theater director Robert Wilson, called The Life and Death of Marina Abramović. She is also starring in the show, quite alive, alongside Wi