Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” a fourth version of that Nordic icon, conjured up fears about solitude in the modern world and the insignificance of an individual faced with the enormity and beauty of nature. So much …

Remember Waiting for Superman, Davis Guggenheim’s documentary about the crisis in American education that focused on Washington DC, among other places ? The inquiry into the Texas State Board of Education, The Revisionaries, which made its …

Podcast: Download Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress comes 14 years after the director’s last movie. It’s clever, it’s urbane – that’s not a word you hear these days – and it’s about characters in place that …

AIPAD 2012, New York — If you haven’t noticed, the one percent has money, and it’ s buying. When it comes to photography, it’s buying a lot, according to dealers at AIPAD 2012, the annual fair …

Maastricht (Netherlands) – If art follows capital, then much of it is headed toward the former epicenter of international communism, Russia.  In the art market, the sons of Lenin are racing to keep up with the …

Bookies in London, where you can bet legally on anything, are giving three to one odds that Edvard Munch’s The Scream selling at Sotheby’s in May will bring $120 million, $40 million more than its high …

Podcast: Download The porn film business is notorious for ruining generations of its actors. But Cherry, which premiered in Berlin, views things differently. David D’Arcy says this a masterpiece of unintentional humor has a cast full …

Podcast: Download In Iron Sky, the most hyped movie at the Berlin International Film Festival, Nazis who hid out on the Moon after 1945 are still bent on world conquest. David D’Arcy saw the film and …

Podcast: Download In Francine, Melissa Leo plays a casualty from the low end of the 99 percent who tries to rebuild her life after prison. It is low-budget realism at its best, with a few people …

Podcast: Download In Night of Silence, the Turkish director Reis Celik takes an old formula and an old tradition, and turns it into a night of talk and transformation. David D’Arcy is at the Berlin International …