2 December 2010 | Americas, Current Events, Film, Modern, Museums
The National Portrait Gallery’s innovative exhibition of images of and by queer people in America, HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, is becoming controversial. The exhibit was altered by pulling a video by David Wojnarowicz and it may close before the scheduled date. The story has been picked up by The Washington Post as well [...]
30 November 2010 | Film
In the summer/fall double issue of Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne devoted to “Cinema Surprised by the Arts,” editor Jean-Pierre Criqui writes: From Eric Rohmer and Nabuhiro Suwa to Albert Lewin and Gus van Sant … the arts that preceded cinema historically – painting and sculpture first of all, but also, among others, [...]
26 May 2010 | Film
At Artnet, David D’Arcy reviews the recent International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal: The fest featured no less than six films on Picasso, including Arne Glimcher’s unlikely Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies [which argues] that Cubism was inspired by early movies … Views on Vermeer – 12 Short Stories … weighs [...]
