Dan Fox is the author of Pretentiousness: Why It Matters (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2016) and Limbo (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018). He co-directed the film Other, Like Me (2021).
How the artists used their underground photographic magazine to map New York’s mid-century myths
On the tenth anniversary of Kelley’s death, Dan Fox rereads the artist’s writing and criticism
Dan Fox reviews the writer’s memoir of a twilight capital of art, fashion and music
An exhibition in Edinburgh honouring Ray Harryhausen gives film historians the chance to see Medusa, the Kraken, dinosaurs and giant sea creatures
The critic’s folksy guide, How to Be an Artist, includes some valuable insight on the creative process
Matt Wolf’s new film, ‘Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project’, is an astonishing portrait of an almost incomprehensible endeavour
Is this a show about the artist’s youth or is it about something bigger – landscape?
The art world’s dining rituals reinforce its class barriers – which is why we should value the museum coffee
‘Água Viva’ is a vision of a run-down and resource-scarce future
Dan Fox meets humanoid Ai-Da and the man who created ‘her’
The late pop maverick was influenced by sources as diverse as Jacques Brel, Swedish cinema and Sibelius
frieze’s Editor-at-Large considers what it means to move on
A recent celebration of the American filmmaker provided a rare opportunity to come face-to-face with a major figure of underground cinema
‘It embodies the qualities of enthusiasm, enquiry and toe-curling earnestness that art can’t exist without’
‘Cinematic’ is often overused, but Roeg’s films showed how minds and memories wander back and forth in time, colouring our experience of the world
At Brooklyn’s Triangle Arts Association, Tyler Coburn and Ian Hatcher revive the techniques of a Cold War-era covert intelligence programme
In New York, a so-called ‘exhibition’ at a ‘museum’ featuring 30 ‘artists’? Dan Fox uncovers the truth behind this dangerously timely show
Nathaniel Kahn’s new HBO film works on the assumption that money and power is all anyone in the art world is interested in
Nicholas Cage, the film’s mesmerizing star, crescendos and explodes, like he’s hamming for his life
The controversial intellectual suggests art would be better done at home – she should be careful what she wishes for
