Tag Archives: Tony Zaza
Matisse in Baltimore
By Tony Zaza, The Roving Eye The lack of glamor surrounding the current show at the Baltimore Museum of Art, no hype, no bangles and merchandizing, is a tribute to the artist. Let the work speak for itself. One might expect this to be a New Yorkish show, but Baltimore harbours one of the largest […]
Burning Man: The work of Michael Zanksy
Who needs Banksy when you have Zansky as a natural resource? His fire drawings now on view at Stefen Stux are a remarkable mix of skill and innovation. These large scale line drawings have the look of faded sepia sketches of Da Vinci or badly faded enlarged photocopies of twentieth century cave paintings. Upon closer […]
Objects of Desire: The Lost Art of Challenging Art
As a repository of Dadaist ideas, the brilliant show at Blain/Di Donna, Dada and Surrealist Objects, represents what constitutes artistic re-interpretation. It brings back into focus the bankruptcy of contemporary artistic initiatives as nothing more than shameless re-invention. The “objects” in this elegantly-mounted show represent imaginative artifacts created between 1920 and 1969 (save for the […]
Cinema Without Conscience: Tony Zaza Takes in NYFF 51
The 51st New York Film Festival is more of a milestone than the 50th Anniversary edition. The Festival demonstrates that American filmmaking has fully transformed itself from a plastic form of storytelling in time and motion, into a form of self-indulgent self-centered vanity. This was to have been expected. Since the mid-1990s, celebrity has been […]
The Great Gatsby in 3D: As Reviewed by Tony Zaza
By Tony Zaza Neither an interpretation nor a translation of a literary work, but rather the basis for a deconstruction, The Great Gatsby rolls along feverishly like a bad memory. And so to entice you to pay attention to the pivotal point of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, director Baz Luhrmann sugar coats numerous […]
