The First Art Newspaper on the Net
by Claudia Carr Levy
NEW YORK, NY
.- Upon first seeing Jason Stewarts new work, I thought of Filippo Brunelleschis facade of the Ospedale degli Innocenti, the foundling hospital in Florence that he was commissioned to design in 1419. The arches of the hospital facade have always captivated me. Brunelleschis arches are perfect in their form and progression: perfect graceful architecture. Why, I wondered, did that architectural image appear as I looked at the series of paintings called Shaping Color? The precision of Jason Stewarts arcs in their spaces on canvas resonate with Brunelleschis architecture. The paintings seem to transpose geometric architectural form into pictorial space. Perhaps this geometry would seem to belie the dominance and importance of color in these paintings. Yet color holds the arcs; the arcs hold color. The more one looks at these works, the more one observes the paradox between color and form. And the mo
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The obvious move is to go with
Independence Day, but you should also consider the second time Will Smith saved the world from an alien invasion in a movie released over the Fourth of July weekend: The gold standard for late-’90s special effects comedies,
Men In Black. What’s more Americana than a movie that climaxes with CGI fireworks on the grounds of the 1964 New York World’s Fair whose entire setup puts an intergalactic spin on the feel-good myth of the American melting pot? All that, plus Smith’s boundless “Gettin’ Jiggy With It”-era energy playing off of bone-dry turns from Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Fiorentino, and Vincent D’Onofrio acting his ass off from beneath “a brand new Edgar suit.” [Erik Adams]
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner
Even though BBC Four’s engrossing documentary series Philly DA is about a progressive (aka ‘woke’) district attorney, viewers on both sides of the political divide might learn a thing or two from it.
If you’re a fan of true crime documentaries, you really should spend eight hours devouring this all-encompassing look at Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner’s first year in office because it’s eye-opening stuff.
I particularly liked the way it doesn’t sugar-coat him or the challenges he’s up against to reform the infamously corrupt and old fashioned department.
Krasner is a poacher turned gamekeeper, in that he’s spent almost three decades as a civil rights lawyer butting heads with the very department he now leads.
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