Installation view: “Buried Shadow” by Francesca Mollet at Grimm New York. Courtesy Grimm Francesca Mollet quickly captured the attention of curators and collectors with her molten abstractions, which evoke and embrace the pure alchemical magic of painting to imitate the perpetual flow of matter and energy – the origins of everything. Her paintings create sensual, … Read more
francisco de zurbaran, Agnus Deic. 1635-1640. Oil on canvas, 37.3 x 62 cm. Otero Herranz, Alberto © Museo Nacional del Prado Photographic Archive The latest book by the late New York art critic Peter Schjeldahl, The art of death (2024), starts with a bang. Upon being told that he is dying of cancer, Schjeldahl has … Read more
Despite weighing just over 6,000 pounds, the Navigator Black Label is powered by a twin-turbo V6 engine that produces 440 horsepower, a nod to Ford’s philosophy of reducing fuel consumption without sacrificing performance. Courtesy Lincoln The 2026 Lincoln Navigator Black Label is quite large for a consumer-market SUV. This is half of its identity in … Read more
Joan Miró in Carl Holty’s studio, in front of the mural for the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati, 1947. Photography: Arnold Newman © Arnold Newman/Getty Images There is a clear difference between a real naive artist and a fake naive artist. True naivety is where you start: finding your way, exploring, experimenting, and discovering your … Read more
Tracey Emin, clinical 1998. © Tracey Emin / Courtesy Saatchi Gallery, London / Photography by Prudence Cumming Associates Ltd, courtesy The Durkheim Collection I had the pleasure of interviewing Ms. Tracey Emin in 2013, when I was a reporter for this outlet. The occasion was an art exhibition, and the motive was to stimulate public … Read more
Installation view: Sanford Biggers’s “The Gift of Tongues” at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City. Photo: Jason Wyche Operating at the intersections of African diasporic history, spirituality, mythology and popular culture, artist Sanford Biggers has long applied strategies of appropriation and transformation to engage creatively and semiotically with systems of power, race and historical … Read more
The film, for all its flaws, upends hyper-masculine war tropes to focus on intimacy, queer desire, and art as a tool for survival. Courtesy of Moby/AlineBoyen_theReunion The trenches of World War I paved the way for strange longing in Lukas Dhont’s work cowardthe film that competed in Cannes, and which – despite its many flaws … Read more
louise nevelson, Sky Cathedral III1959. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. Photo: Marjon Gemeke. © Collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo; © Estate of Louise Nevelson, licensed by the Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris In New York, it is desirable to have some kind of relationship with your neighbor, but not one that is too close. … Read more
Atlan has crafted a hugely moving story about volatile youth and their thorniest self-discoveries. Courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival Coming of age collides with forgetting La Gradivathe story of French high school students who visit the ruins of Pompeii. This Cannes Critics’ Week selection (and Grand Prix winner) marks the directorial debut of director/co-writer … Read more
La Pola Negra It reimagines and builds on art from the margins, turning it into the kind of lavish and expensive production that would not have been possible in past years of queer drama. Courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival Some flowers bloom in the dark. Once La Pola Negra (or Black ball) The rounded … Read more