Mark Asch
Film review
A film about self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe shows the limitations of the artist documentary genre
"This World Is Not My Own", which recently premiered at South by Southwest, parallels Rowe’s life with that of the gallerist who championed her work
Film review
Artist Mika Rottenberg’s first feature film captures a futuristic but familiar domestic isolation
‘Remote’, co-directed by Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi, finds Okwui Okpokwasili’s main character escaping her apartment through virtual reality
Film review
'Dalíland' offers a by-the-numbers biopic no one needed or will remember
The film, starring Ben Kingsley as the late Surrealist artist, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this month
Documentaryreview
Laura Poitras’s Nan Goldin documentary powerfully balances biography with anti-Sackler activism
In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, currently showing in Toronto, the Sacklers become a personification of the oppressive social order that cost many of Goldin’s peers their lives
Documentaryreview
A new documentary offers an elegy for the Chelsea Hotel and New York’s bohemian middle class
“Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel” avoids outright nostalgia for an earlier New York, instead impressionistically bemoaning its disappearance