‘Village House’ Review: A Family and the Surrounding Walls

[ad_1] In “The Village House,” all four sides of the camera frame find pockets of beautiful, pictorial space and time within the four walls of an ancestral home. Achal Mishra’s feature film debut, set in Madhopur, a village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, turns out to be a kind of autobiography—a decades-long portrait …

Uffizi is Out of Tank and Spreading Its Brand on the Walls

[ad_1] CASTAGNO D’ANDREA, Italy – This tiny hamlet of around 300 inhabitants, 40 roundabout miles northeast of Florence, hadn’t been on Italy’s must-see A-list. Its main claim to fame was that it was likely the birthplace of Renaissance painter Andrea del Castagno, who left as a child before he was old enough to scribble on …

Art Reflected Beyond Gallery Walls at Gagosian

[ad_1] There’s a chilly breeze blowing through Gagosian’s West 24th Street galleries this summer in the form of the group exhibition “Social Affairs” organized by Antwaun Sargent, curator, critic and author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion. His first project as a Gagosian director. It spans 12 artist generations and official …