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The Decadence and Resurgence of African Art

by Maaisha Osman
June 2, 2021August 7, 2021
Features

The timeliness of a poem, painting, novel or film draws not only on its origin and response but also its capability to speak to the present long after the fact. This is

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Redesigning the Anthropocene

by Marc Glassman
May 13, 2021May 16, 2022
Interviews

An interview with visionary Bruce Mau about design, changing, and re-imagining the world. The designer's life and career is the subject of the documentary Mau by Benjamin and Jono Bergmann.

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Portrayal Review: To Catch a Thief

by Pat Mullen
May 4, 2021August 9, 2021
Hot Docs/Reviews

Vladimir Dvorkin was a prolific artist who painted thousands of beautiful portraits during his lifetime. One wouldn’t know it, however, from gallery catalogues, exhibition reviews, or Google searches. One wouldn’t even know

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Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide Review – Pop’s Art

by Pat Mullen
April 16, 2021July 27, 2021
Reviews

If Boomer nostalgia music docs were the rage of 2018, 2019, and 2020, then New York street artist bios are the doc fad of 2021. On the heels of Martha: A Picture

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Wojnarowicz: Work of Wonder

by Pat Mullen
March 19, 2021August 8, 2021
Reviews

Portrait of artist provocative artist David Wojnarowicz conveys the necessity of going all in.

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Martha: A Picture Story Review: Subway Art, Revisited

by Pat Mullen
March 4, 2021August 8, 2021
Reviews

Upbeat doc Martha: A Picture Story gives street photographer Martha Cooper her due.

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‘Driven to Abstraction’ Is ‘Made You Look’ Without the Laughs

by Pat Mullen
August 25, 2020August 7, 2022
Reviews

Driven to Abstraction (USA, 84 min.) Dir. Daria Price Not every painting needs to be the Mona Lisa to be admired, but two portraits of the same subject by different artists inevitably

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‘Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly’ a Portrait of Political Prisoners

by Pat Mullen
August 6, 2020August 7, 2022
Reviews

Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly (USA, 76 min.) Dir. Cheryl Haines, Co-dir. Gina Leibrecht Does any visual artist in the world right now have as big a profile as Ai Weiwei? The artist,

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Helmut Newton Doc Finds Empowerment Through Drumsticks

by Pat Mullen
July 21, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful (USA, 93 min.) Dir. Gero von Boehm Only a photographer as daring as Helmut Newton could make roast chicken look sexy. The man sure knew how to

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Strokes of Insight: Benjamin Ree Discusses ‘The Painter and the Thief’

by Jason Gorber
June 8, 2020December 11, 2021
Hot Docs/Interviews

"The film shows that in Norwegian society we use a lot of government money to rehabilitate people like Karl Bertil. But look at Bertil today. The government has invested in his life

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