February Films: ‘Anatahan,’ Andrzej Wajda, ‘I Am Not Your Negro,’ Paz Encina
February brings us Anatahan, Andrzej Wajda, I Am Not Your Negro, Paz Encina, and more.
February brings us Anatahan, Andrzej Wajda, I Am Not Your Negro, Paz Encina, and more.
“Tony Oursler: Imponderable,” an exhibition on the video artist Tony Oursler and his encyclopedic collection of over 2,500 images and objects, "provide evidence of the (often misguided) power of faith, and of our longing to believe in—or our compulsion to disprove—the existence of the occult."
"Stuart Davis, the only first-class Cubist to emerge from North America, may appear to be dated with its period graphic tropes," writes Robert Storr, "yet the abiding immediacy of his painterly manner has given it an enduring, if less noted, presence in the evolution of US art."
By the time he was fifteen years old, Picabia had acquired a skill so brilliant that he copied his father’s collection of Spanish paintings, replacing the originals with his copies.
The 1,590 papers and 19 objects—some disturbing, some mysterious and others creepily idyllic—that German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) exhibited in 1983 are now on view at Dia:Chelsea.