Email Author Leslie Camhi

2004 Stories by Leslie Camhi

• Knot's Landing

  published March 16, 2004

  Lynda Benglis became an art world legend with a single, notorious gesture: an announcement she placed in Artforum to publicize her 1974... More >>

• Obscure Objets of Desire

  published March 2, 2004

  What does it mean for the state of cinema when an 81-year-old auteur's screen version of a 1920s operetta seems the freshest work in a program... More >>

• An Arte Povera Artist Who Takes His Body as a Starting Point

  published February 24, 2004

  The Italian artist Giuseppe Penone takes his body as the starting point for monumental works exploring the portals and limits of sensory... More >>

• This charming man: From Eurotrash to aristocrats

  published February 17, 2004

  Tall and dark with a twisted smile, the Italian actor Vittorio Gassman (1922-2000) lent his rakish charm to roles as petty crooks, disabled... More >>

• Still Waters

  published February 10, 2004

  One of the tamer sequences in Eat Your Makeup (1967), an early, no-budget film by John Waters currently screening at the New Museum, shows... More >>

• Art

  published February 3, 2004

  The great 20th-century artists, a flabby painter friend once ventured nervously, had memorable physiques: Duchamp angular and cerebral, Picasso... More >>

• The Searchers

  published January 6, 2004

  Journeys undertaken for the purpose of survival, spiritual enlightenment, or a better bra fit form the core of this year's New York Jewish Film... More >>

• Battle Cries

  published January 6, 2004

  It's been almost 50 years since Saadi Yacef, revolutionary hero of the Algerian war of independence, leapt across the terraces of the casbah in... More >>