Edward Epstein
Joachim Koester
by Edward Epstein
What if, despite its surface appearance of messy complexity, life was actually governed by precise machinery? One gets a sense of what this could look like from watching Joachim Koester’s videos and films, installed in multiple rooms at Greene Naftali Gallery... Read more
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Best known as the Academy Award-nominated director of such films as Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, David Lynch is also a prolific painter and printmaker. His retrospective "The Unified Field" opens next week at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he trained as a painter and made his first forays into filmmaking during the late 1960s... Read more
Reassembling the tangled installations that Jason Rhoades (1965-2006) left behind is a daunting task; the four works on display at the ICA's Rhoades exhibition are complex and sprawling in composition and theme. .. Read more
