Marijeta Bozovic

Features

What We Write About When We Write About Art

By Marijeta Bozovic

On Edge exhibits a composite image of a younger, rougher New York: we know it existed, but it still has the power to shock and charm, like a photo of a beloved aunt as a teenager with cropped and blue hair. [7 April 2009]

Samuel Beckett: Beyond the Endgame

By Marijeta Bozovic

Beckett’s dramatic work has been largely viewed as Theater of the Absurd but make no mistake, Endgame is Waiting for Godot's evil twin. [27 June 2008]

Thaw: Russian Art from Glasnost to the Present

By Marijeta Bozovic

Fears and rumors of increasing state control insinuate that the most recent Russian thaw, as represented at this exhibit at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, might turn out to be just that: a limited period of freedom. [2 April 2008]

Reviews

Le Plaisir

By Marijeta Bozovic

Ophuls' stories take Maupassant’s worldly wisdom and glamorous cynicism and imbue spirituality and compassion. [23 January 2009]

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom

By Marijeta Bozovic

Pasolini’s career reads as a heartbreaking, stylized summary of the last century’s glamour and tragedy. [24 October 2008]

Brain Upon the Brain!

By Marijeta Bozovic

However we choose to brand it -- post-apocalyptic, postmodern, post-historical -- the fashion of outrageous mash-ups is intimately linked with the movies. [10 October 2008]

The Nightmare and the Dream by Dax-Devlon Ross

By Marijeta Bozovic

Author Dax-Devlon Ross reminds us that the personal is -- still -- political. And music is terribly personal. [22 September 2008]

Last Year at Marienbad

By Marijeta Bozovic

This is the cinematic equivalent of whale bone-enforced corset, silk from the colonies, and the kind of workmanship only extreme class disparity can provide. [25 April 2008]