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The Surreal Spirit Of Salvador Simo Busom’s Buñuel In The Labyrinth Of The...
Reviewed by Alci Rengifo An animated movie by GKIDS Films about one of the great iconoclasts and rebels of the cinema is fittingly surreal when the subject in question is Luis Buñuel. The Spanish...
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Embracing The (Untitled) Void In Lester Monzon’s Fail Better
at Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles (through October 26) Reviewed by Eve Wood I’ve always been partial to exhibitions with oddly self-depreciating titles, and Lester Monzon’s Fail Better is definitely...
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Savagely Sharp, One Cut Of The Dead Is So Much More Than Its Buzz Suggests
Reviewed by Kristy Puchko “You have to see it,” I was told again and again by ardent admirers of One Cut Of The Dead. This Japanese zombie-comedy has been bouncing all over the world from one film...
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In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali
Reviewed by John Biscello In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali by Sue Roe Penguin, 295pp., $28.50 A fish rides a bicycle into the Seine. The fish begins to drown...
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Taikai Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit Is A Bold But Fumbled Entry In His Lost Boy Trilogy
Reviewed by Kristy Puchko Taika Waititi loves a lost boy. His latest, Jojo Rabbit, is the third coming-of-age comedy the Kiwi filmmaker has crafted that centers on a young boy facing trauma by...
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Activating Absence In Lenz Geerk’s Mixed Blessings
at Roberts Projects, Los Angeles (through 12 October) Reviewed by Eve Wood It’s very difficult to create a cohesive and engaging narrative with a suite of only five paintings. It’s inevitable that some...
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Richard Stanley Returns With Sci-Fi Head-Spinner, Color Out Of Space
Reviewed by Kristy Puchko Richard Stanley is a filmmaker arguably less famous than infamous. Though he’s directed a pair of thrillers, three docs, and a string of music videos, he might be best known...
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Maria Lassnig’s Ways of Being
at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam Reviewed by Arabella Hutter von Arx In the self portrait Du oder Ich (You Or Me), Maria Lassnig points one gun at the viewer, the other at herself. Either I kill...
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A Pitch-Black Comedic Masterwork In Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite
Reviewed by Kristy Puchko South Korean writer/director Bong Joon-ho has been thrilling critics and genre fans since 2006, when he unleashed his rambunctious yet heartbreaking creature-feature The Host....
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Sacraments Of Splendor In Naudline Pierre’s For I Am with You Until the End...
at Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles (through 26 October) Reviewed by Eve Wood No doubt Brooklyn based artist Naudline Pierre keeps the sacraments, though not necessarily the ones decried by the Almighty...
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Samuelle Richardson And Joy Ray In Beyond/Within
at Launch Gallery, Los Angeles (through September 28) Reviewed by Genie Davis The two-person exhibition now at Launch LA on La Brea literally and figuratively soars. Curated by MOAH’s Andi Campognone,...
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Takashi Miike’s First Love Is A Delightfully Earnest Rom-Com Set To An...
Reviewed by Kristy Puchko As you might anticipate, First Love is a story of boy meets girl, but coming from Takashi Miike, the visionary director behind Ichi the Killer, Audition, and 13 Assasins, you...
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The Lodge Offers a Chilling Follow-Up To Goodnight Mommy
Reviewed by Kristy Puchko In 2015, Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz dropped jaws and blew minds with their harrowing–and at points hilarious–debut narrative feature, Goodnight Mommy. Last year, they...
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Transits Through Finalities In Robert Gunderman’s This End
at AF Projects, Los Angeles (through October 12) Reviewed by Eve Wood Robert Gunderman’s current exhibition at AF Projects could be understood as both a meditation on the nature of time and an...
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A Movable Feast In The Dystopic The Platform
Reviewed by Kristy Puchko Imagine: you awake in a cold, concrete prison cell. There are no windows, no doors, one cellmate, and a big, square hole in the center of the floor. Should you peek down into...
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Corrosion And Other Maladies In Peter Doig’s Latest, Paintings
Paintings, at Michael Werner Gallery, London (16 November) Reviewed by Christopher P Jones With Peter Doig – who has a collection of new paintings on show at the Michael Werner Gallery, London –...
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Wounds Of Desire In Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain And Glory
Were you looking for such a thing, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more humanizing film than Pedro Almodóvar’s latest little miracle. The Spanish director/writer’s Pain and Glory is a story about an...
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Lightly Through The Looking Glass With Apple’s [AR]T Walk
By Mayne Alert the critics: The cutting edge of New York City’s art avantgarde can now be found at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store. Amid the blistering doldrums of summer, Apple has offered [AR]T Walk a...
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Process And Fierce Redemption In Betye Saar’s Call and Response
at LACMA (through April 5, 2020) Reviewed by Genie Davis Betye Saar’s riveting, 40-object exhibition currently at LACMA offers a fascinating insight into the artist’s process. It’s strong focus on the...
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Resilience: Philip Guston In 1971
at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (through January 5, 2020) Reviewed by Nancy Kay Turner …there’s no success like failure and failure’s no success at all Bob Dylan The painter’s first duty is to be...
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