criticismFilm/Music/Performance
Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
Never Look Away, by the directed of The Lives of Others ...
Friday, October 28th, 2016
Nathaniel Dorsky, Autumn, 2016. Silent 16mm color film, TRT: 26:00. Courtesy of the artist and New York Film Festival.
Two experimental filmmakers depict the world, using the methodology of poetry. ...
Friday, July 15th, 2016
A performance, installation, and sound artist unites people in collective experience. ...

Saturday, September 7th, 2019

God-Given to Create: “Quilting The Sun” at Theater for the New City

Set during Reconstruction in the South, a drama as schematic as the quilt it celebrates

Jeff Koons in a scene from The Price of Everything, the documentary under review
Thursday, November 29th, 2018

What “The Price of Everything” Says About The Value of Art

Nathaniel Kahn’s documentary on HBO

Wednesday, February 14th, 2018

Films by Stephanie Barber and Amy Jenkins Premiere in New York

At Anthology Film Archive and MoMA this weekend

Wednesday, July 13th, 2016

Dust Settling: Yvonne Rainer Choreographs History at The Kitchen

The dancer and performance artist plays with mortality and geological time in a new iteration of her famous work.

Photo of Eva Hesse in the Textile Factory Studio, Kettwig, Germany, 1964. Photographer unknown.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016

Vulnerable Visionary: Eva Hesse, A Film By Marcie Begleiter

Back at Film Forum through June 9

Friday, March 4th, 2016

Data Dance: Ode to an Information Theorist at The Kitchen

A semi-improvisational dance series for the founding thinkers of the Digital Era.

Roy Ferdinand, Untitled (Sax Player), 1993
Tuesday, November 10th, 2015

Missing People: An Art Dealer on the Trail of Unsolved Murder and Outsider Drawings

David Shapiro’s award winning documentary screens at DOC NYC Sunday and Wednesday

Monday, August 17th, 2015

Author as Imaginary Friend: The Dull Spectacle of “The End of the Tour”

A new film about a famous author inadvertently raises the problem of substituting images for people.

Thursday, February 26th, 2015

Always the Bride: Maria Yoon’s Marriage Experiment

The artist’s documentary about her 50 marriages explores the institution’s changing place in American culture.

A scene from Frederick Wiseman’s “National Gallery”. Courtesy of Zipporah Films
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

Upstairs Downstairs: Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery

Now playing at Film Forum, through November 18