In “Repeated Original” at Perrotin, Gabriel De la Mora pushes abstraction to its outer limits. Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli, courtesy of the artist and Perrotin How many pictures can be contained within a single image? Or to put it another way, how many different realities can exist on a seemingly plain monochrome surface composed of thousands … Read more
There comes a point during a political protest where sheer force of will wins out the day. But it definitely helps if you’ve got a dude called Van Man on your side whose sole function is to act as a human wheel clamp. Everybody to Kenmure Street chronicles the eight hour long Glaswegian stand-off between burly Home Office enforcers … Read more
Begum’s post-minimalism replaces the cold certainty of those early practitioners with a version that is more precise, provisional, and more representative of our times. Photo: Arik Atas, courtesy of the gallery at Windsor Critics were divided over Cady Noland’s show at New York’s Gagosian at the end of last year. It was filled with its … Read more
The Eighth, a cocktail restaurant in Chelsea, is now open. Eighth After a soft opening during New York Fashion Week, Eighth She officially welcomed the public to her Chelsea digs on March 10. After visiting the cocktail restaurant in its first week of debut, it’s clear that The Eighth is still fine-tuning the execution of … Read more
Despite a framing device that vaguely ties its disparate stories together, there’s an extent to which Bi Gan’s Resurrection is essentially a glorified anthology film. But oh, how glorious its sights and sounds truly are. The writer/director’s follow-up to 2018’s 3D spectacular Long Day’s Journey Into Night is a further large-scale expansion of the preoccupation that emerged from … Read more
It’s rare when an animated kid’s movie leaves parents gasping, mouths agape, and then laughing loudly for a good 15 seconds straight (or was that just me?), but that’s exactly what the Disney-Pixar toon Hoppers does midway through its frenetically fun runtime. Easily one of the studio’s best pictures in years, Hoppers is a funny, … Read more
The old adage ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme’ lies at the heart of Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling, in which four generations of life play out within the confines of a rural farmhouse in north Germany. Over the course of a century Schilinski flickers between the lives of Alma (Hanna Heckt), Erika (Lea Drinda), Angelika … Read more
Using light and texture, artist Anne Hamilton transforms archival museum objects into a mysterious visual presence that feels both ancient and newly discovered. Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art It’s impossible to know what’s being taught in American high schools these days, but I hope they continue to teach photography lessons in darkrooms, and … Read more
The sight of Jodie Foster speaking fluent French is the most engaging element of this limp and convoluted psychodrama from the usually reliable Rebecca Zlotowski. Foster plays a psychiatrist named Lillian Steiner who we meet just before she storms upstairs to tell her neighbour to turn down the volume on ‘Psycho Killer’ by The Talking Heads. … Read more
grace hartigan, Cedar Bar1951. Oil on canvas, 39 x 31 3/4 inches. Courtesy of Grace Hartigan Estate, Levitt Group and FAMM. Photo: Fraser Marr You can no longer go to New York’s famous Cedar Bar, famous for its 15-cent beer and the birth of a new American style of painting. It closed years ago. But … Read more