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Frieze L.A. Looks Good for Galleries, but Artists Give Mixed Reviews
Feb 16, 2019 The Los Angeles art fair raises questions about the effect gentrification is having on artists and collectors.
The ‘Sympathetic Racist’ Returns to the Big Screen in ‘Green Book’
Jan 25, 2019 “Green Book” vs. “BlacKkKlansman” echoes the 1989 best picture face-off between “Do the Right Thing” and “Driving Miss Daisy.”
Notorious RBG Gets Glitzified in ‘On the Basis of Sex’
Dec 24, 2018 Objection! The new biopic is a miscast misstep in honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the popular Supreme Court justice.
‘Cold War’ Way Sexier Than Actual Cold War
Dec 20, 2018 Filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski’s love-on-the-run tale in the era of comrades and Coltrane is a melancholy homage to his parents.
Natalie Portman Goes Full Diva in a Flat ‘Vox Lux’
Dec 7, 2018 Even Portman’s strong presence, matched by a stellar Jude Law, can’t save actor-turned-filmmaker Brady Corbet from a troubled sophomore effort.
Nothing Brings a Family Together Like Thievery
Nov 23, 2018 Hirokazu Kore-eda's Palme d’Or winner "Shoplifters" is a different kind of family film for the age of inequality.
‘The Price of Everything’ Confronts an Art World Awash With Cash
Oct 22, 2018 Filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn and a "Guerrilla Girl" contemplate cultural representation amid scorched-earth capitalism, as artists like Jeff Koons (pictured) make bank in a speculative art market.
The Homeless and the Indigent Are People, Too
Oct 2, 2018 A powerful new play at Hollywood's Hudson Guild Theater explores the lives of some of our most neglected and misunderstood communities.
Michael Moore Attempts Another Election Intervention With ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’
Sep 19, 2018 Just in time for the 2018 midterms, the filmmaker’s self-selecting audiences are treated to another serving of his docu-tainment, which makes some strong points—but too many leaps.
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman
Sep 7, 2018 A new documentary explores Yayoi Kusama’s journey from ’60s obscurity to Instagram sensation and global phenomenon.
Judy Chicago on Making Art Her Way and Remaking the Art World
Aug 24, 2018 The trailblazing artist tells how she fused feminist sensibilities with production methods in works that were initially written off by male critics and peers—and are now being celebrated in retrospectives and salutes.