Matthew Wilder

Jul 26, 2024 | artforum.com | Matthew Wilder |Bradford Nordeen |Azu Nwagbogu

On the hyperreal cinema of Tsai Ming-liangONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, I was walking the mean streets Travis Bickle-like when I was accosted by a group of rather sinister aristocratic goths outside the old, long-dead Vogue Theatre.

May 23, 2024 | artforum.com | Pablo Larios |Matthew Wilder |Duncan Ballantyne-Way |Piotr Orlov

Nobles in Hapsburg Spain would eat clay pots. When you snack on bits of pottery, as it turns out, your skin gets whiter and your digestion improves: favorable side effects accompanying the anemia, and intestinal and liver damage, caused by a diet of pilfered New World ceramics. On Tuesday, April 16, I walked through Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s colossal meta-museum at the Spanish pavilion, “Pinacoteca Migrante” (Migrant Art Gallery).

Apr 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Alexander Nagel |Percy Zvomuya |Matthew Wilder

Bellini and Giorgione at Frick MadisonIN GIOVANNI BELLINI’S Saint Francis in the Desert, ca. 1475–80 in the Frick Collection, New York, the gaunt saint opens his arms and raises his head as his eyes roll upward and his mouth opens in prayer, or maybe just a gasp. He is small in a large world, a humble receiver flooded by a signal beaming down from on high.

Mar 28, 2024 | artforum.com | Percy Zvomuya |Matthew Wilder |Travis Jeppesen

Ethiopian art at a crossroadsWhen I drove to my hotel from the Bole International Airport, in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, in early March, dozens of felled jacaranda trees lay on the verges of Bole Road. The prostrate trees, I later learned, were in the way of bicycle lanes soon to be built on the pavement.

Mar 20, 2024 | artforum.com | Matthew Wilder |Travis Jeppesen |Bradford Nordeen

Wojciech Jerzy Has’s deliciously twisted textualitiesHaving just rolled out the red carpet for superstar auteur Denis Villeneuve—the first installment of his Dune franchise sports George Lucas–esque blockbuster scenes directed like Cries and Whispers—Film at Lincoln Center now prepares to honor a filmmaker who likely inspired Villeneuve’s very arthouse tentpoles.