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After a lengthy recovery, the artist comes back with the most vigorous work he’s made: “It took me a really long time to understand what had happened to me.” from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Bbnpg0R via IFTTT

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” This famous quote was first published in the late 1800s. It’s taken from Oscar Wilde’s The Decay of Lying, an essay on aesthetics and the purpose of art and design. The phrase has remained lodged within the.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Ah2KEpn via IFTTT

Data visualisation brings information to life – making complex strings of numbers, for example, easier to digest. We might think of these representations in terms of graphs, pie charts or reports. Shots from The Matrix might even spring to mind: lines of gree.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/7bhsGVT via IFTTT

Quentin Tarantino has countless fans all around the world, increasingly many of whom are too young to ever have rented a tape from a video store. But when those twenty-something cinephiles learn his origin story as a filmmaker, they must suspect they missed o.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ZVqM4Yg via IFTTT

Historians have relied on Herman Heukels’s pictures of Jewish persecution in World War II, but it’s not widely known that the Dutch photographer shot them as Nazi propaganda. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/CGURoaq via IFTTT

https://ift.tt/Uc0TuEe Is re-playing or re-recording a song written and performed by someone else an act of love or predation? Your host Mark Linsenmayer is joined by Too Much Jo.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/twLg0NS via IFTTT

By Winnie Wang In Hong Sangsoo’s Tale of Cinema (2005) a depressed young man reunites with a female former classmate through a chance encounter and joins her after a night of emotional conversations and heavy drinking in an impulsive suicide pact. In a hotel r.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Nm1BavR via IFTTT

The Met surveys Bernd and Hilla Becher, who turned Machine Age monuments into alluring collectibles. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/e4QCYcm via IFTTT

An ambitious survey of the life and art of Raphael Montañez Ortiz is at El Museo del Barrio. His work still feels subversive more than half a century after he founded the museum. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/mniIyQe via IFTTT

The climate crisis is inspiring — and requiring — new perspectives in thinking for the London gallery, starting with “Back to Earth.” from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/WoG9FnB via IFTTT

Painting will not stop missiles. Music will not end suffering. But culture is not powerless — and a visit to Ukraine reaffirmed what it can do at its best. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/lPtMXCb via IFTTT

Public spaces, provocative exhibitions, new restaurants and unexpected neighborhoods offer visitors a deeper look into Czech culture. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/oI5zM1w via IFTTT

Joni Mitchell almost quit the music industry in 1996, two years after releasing what critics called her best album since the 70s, 1994’s Turbulent Indigo. “I was in a losing fight with a business that basically, you know, was treating me like an also-ran or a.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/g3itK9p via IFTTT

Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris stars Owen Wilson as a Hollywood screenwriter on vacation in the French capital. Alas, the City of Lights as it is in the twenty-first century doesn’t satisfy him. When he walks his streets he thinks only of the nineteen-twenti.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/EUm1C3I via IFTTT

A Broadway actress, documentary filmmaker and DC comic artist are among this year’s recipients. They were selected by fellow disabled artists from a pool of about 60 nominees. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/EqmSdln via IFTTT

Recently we’ve featured films by Sergei Eisenstein, a pioneer of cinema as we know it, and Andrei Tarkovsky, one of the most respected auteurs in the history of the art form. They’re all free to watch on Youtube, as is Sergei Bondarchuk’s epic adaptation of W.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/EWdJFRV via IFTTT

The Châtelaine de Vergy, a courtly romance that was wildly popular in the mid-13th century, would’ve made a crowd pleasing graphic novel adaptation. It’s got sex, treachery, a trio of violent deaths, and a cute pup in a supporting role. Seeing as how the form.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/7U1GoA3 via IFTTT

Glyn Philpot’s sensitive portraits of Black subjects, unusual for the early 20th century, were given updated titles — and consideration — for a recent exhibition in England. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Cu3EJ58 via IFTTT

The Polish film industry has produced a few internationally-known auteurs, including Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Roman Polanski, but a handful of critically-lauded directors cannot represent the scope of any national cinema. Without a wider appre.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ENiHyPb via IFTTT

In September 1942, Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) and her family were forcibly moved to the Rohwer Relocation Center – an internment camp in Arkansas that held 8,000 Japanese Americans during WWII. The experience impacted the trajectory of her life. A year later, she.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/RWtE3x1 via IFTTT

The gut microbiome is considered by some as one of the most significant health discoveries of our age. Bigger than the human brain, epidemiologists suggest that it impacts everything from immunity to appetite and anxiety – containing trillions of bacteria, ar.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/fJlvX7a via IFTTT

This past month, on the eve of the June 22nd feast of St Alban, the library of Trinity College Dublin announced that it had digitized the “13th century masterpiece” the Book of St Alban, a richly illustrated manuscript that “features 54 individual works of me.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Df71PLG via IFTTT

This weekend, the Newport Folk Festival made headlines when it brought out of retirement two music legends. Paul Simon returned to the stage and performed “Graceland,” “The Boxer” and “other classics.” But Joni Mitchell stole the show when she performed (with.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/0NQK5PM via IFTTT

Hyera Lee is an artist and enlightened spiritual guru based in South Korea. For the past 16 years she has helped to heal the pain of many of her students and has been leading them towards enlightenment. She uses painting to assist the students who struggle to.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/klt2K9f via IFTTT

Erik Satie knew his way around not just the piano but the camera as well. This is evidenced by the image above, a 1911 portrait of Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. Described by Christie’s as “an outstanding photograph of the two composers in the library at.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/cDGbAC6 via IFTTT

Perhaps the 143 colors showcased in The Bayer Company’s early 20th-century sample book, Shades on Feathers, could be collected in the field, but it would involve a lot of travel and patience, and the stalking of several endangered if not downright extinct avi.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/TizmyB7 via IFTTT

For Gen X’ers who spent their twenties scouting the cities young people go to retire, and Millennials who spent their youth dancing to N’Sync, TLC, and the Spice Girls, nostalgia for simpler times just makes psychological sense. The 1990s was the last decade .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/i6tnm7K via IFTTT

As the government’s chief architect, he prioritized good design in the construction of hundreds of courthouses and office buildings. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/bhO2Aae via IFTTT

A powerful and relentlessly political exhibition takes on all the world’s crises — at the risk of conceptual overload. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/cKDCngk via IFTTT

The designer Stephen Sprouse, known for his Day-Glo jumpsuits and graffiti-infused formal wear, is the subject of a rock ‘n’ roll-inspired showcase in Indiana, where he grew up. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/8duif9U via IFTTT

The artist is selling NFTs, designing Nikes, exploring outer space (sort of) and uncorking three concurrent shows in Seoul. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/8cUgmMl via IFTTT

We should probably not look to science to have cherished beliefs confirmed. As scientific understanding of the world has progressed over the centuries, it has brought on a loss of humans’ status as privileged beings at the center of the universe whose task is.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/1cQGsVz via IFTTT

The Spanish filmmaker Eugenio Monesma has dedicated his life to capturing the traditions of his homeland and its surrounding areas. He began his career by first taking up a Super-8 camera at age 25 back in the nineteen-seventies, and in the decades since, his.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/RfYMZpj via IFTTT

Confetti soup. Soap soup. Cloud soup. Rain soup. Miguel Vallinas Prieto’s Suppen series visualises what happens when we let the imagination run wild. Each image takes the same starting point: a tablecloth, glass, plate and spoon, positioned against a stark bl.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/9cu6dIb via IFTTT

For the botanical artist Lutfi Janania, a lush plant isn’t always the right one. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/YSms46K via IFTTT

Artists in the early 1960s drew from a heady mix: Mad magazine and Marilyn; the civil rights movement and the death of a president; queer bodies and “Pieta.” It’s all at the Jewish Museum. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/AMsYzD2 via IFTTT

At the New Museum, Kapwani Kiwanga explores light as a form of surveillance, from 18th-century “lantern laws” to the N.Y.P.D.’s 21st-century strategies. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/X91sTeL via IFTTT

With the once-bold Downtown scene replaced by slickness, a democratic open call at a gallery welcomed hundreds of artists desperate for exposure and recognition. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/fklG9b8 via IFTTT

Image by Louis Panassié, via Wikimedia Commons Duke Ellington has been commemorated in a variety of forms: statues, murals, schools, and even United States commemorative stamps and coins. In his lifetime he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Gra.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/HLIp80D via IFTTT

Everyone has been agog over the first photos from the James Webb telescope, and for good reason. “These images,” Rivka Galchin writes at The New Yorker, “carry news about the early universe, the birth and death of stars, the collision of galaxies, and the atm.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/SKhwVMU via IFTTT

In 1990, the art world was entering a new era. Audiences had just been introduced to the Young British Artists – including Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst – whose explosive rise to fame became synonymous with shock, controversy and rule-breaking. Mobile phones a.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/FjYSxvH via IFTTT

The Manhattan district attorney’s office arranged the transfer of items it had seized, including a fresco from a town that was covered in ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/PyUFjJh via IFTTT

With graphite drawings of family and friends, and radiant orchid garlands in acrylic paint, the artist draws us into her version of paradise. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/2HFoRXb via IFTTT

With the once-bold Downtown scene replaced by slickness, a democratic open call at a gallery welcomed hundreds of artists desperate for exposure and recognition. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/BDpjoRP via IFTTT

Birds are the original musicians. This, at least, is a premise of the Audubon Society’s Birdsong Project, “a movement inspiring bird conservation through art.” There could thus be no more natural art form in which to celebrate our fine feathered (and in many .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/RIpkfy7 via IFTTT

Herd immunity. Minimise the spread. Stockpile. Staycation. Quarantine. The language of the Covid-19 pandemic has been seared into the collective consciousness, with Google reporting “When will lockdown end?” and “When will I get the vaccine?” amongst 2021’s m.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/yRY0QjF via IFTTT

Tokyo once had a hotel by Frank Lloyd Wright. Such an architectural asset, one might assume, would be preserved at all costs, yet this one was demolished in 1967. But the fact that Wright’s Imperial Hotel stood for only 45 years won’t surprise anyone familiar.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/mFoxyqE via IFTTT

Even viewers who did not know the artist’s name devoured his audacious sculptures of cheeseburgers, cherries and ice cream cones. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/3go1Hf7 via IFTTT

The foggiest place in the world is situated in the Atlantic Ocean. Data from the Met Office – the UK’s national weather service – shows that Grand Banks, lying off the coast of Newfoundland, experiences over 200 days of fog every year. “Fog makes visible thin.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/e9Y82qn via IFTTT

It’s nearly impossible to communicate musicianship in words, though there are rare, successful literary attempts by greats like James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, and jazz critic Ira Gitler, whose phrase “sheets of sound” so well captured the experience of Coltrane.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/4Iq1WTN via IFTTT

Despite having recently begun to admit tour groups, Japan remains inaccessible to most of the world’s travelers. Having closed its gates during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country has shown little inclination to open them up again too quickly or w.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/beiLkwM via IFTTT

In 1835, the first “constant” electric light was demonstrated. It took nearly 40 years of tinkering for scientists to develop the incandescent lamp, which was patented 1879 and commercialised 12 months later. Innovations in lighting have continued to develop .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/qIOSZvQ via IFTTT

Ahead of her retrospective in Berkeley, Calif., the artist Alison Knowles talks about her Fluxus roots, the appeal of beans and the power of interactive artworks. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ewvXZqt via IFTTT

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting. In the original liner notes to Brian Eno’s founding document of Ambient music — 1978’s Ambient 1: M.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/VmjSwU9 via IFTTT

The name of Vincent Van Gogh is one of the very best known in the history of painting, and indeed the history of art. But that doesn’t mean the man himself enjoyed any success in his short lifetime. Though he was convinced that he was creating “the art of the.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/jAqHlJz via IFTTT

The Museum of Rescued Art showcases antiquities that were looted or otherwise lost before they go back to institutions in the regions from which they were taken. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Bu8oPRc via IFTTT

A crisis at one of the world’s most important art events, in Germany, has deepened with the resignation of its director general. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/2pszkXw via IFTTT

Vesey tried to organize an insurrection in 1822 to free enslaved people, but was caught and hanged. Now several prominent Charleston institutions are honoring the bicentenary. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/W8AhjmG via IFTTT

“A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.” American photographer Saul Leiter (1923–2013) is remembered for distinctive colour images of New York – suffusing the city’s streets, architecture and inhabitants with a.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/pHikAGY via IFTTT

Image of Charles S.L. Baker with his Superheating Demonstration Black History Month is February in the United States and Canada, and October in the United Kingdom and Europe. It may be July right now, but if you’re interested in a subject, there’s no reason n.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/7OWnhkA via IFTTT

With Russia trying to erase Ukraine’s national identity, the fight to preserve, and build upon, Ukraine’s artistic heritage has taken on new urgency. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/MgCQeDj via IFTTT

Image via Wikimedia Commons In his 1935 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility,” influential German-Jewish critic Walter Benjamin introduced the term “aura” to describe an authentic experience of art. Aura relates to the physical pro.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/NTaGqo7 via IFTTT

Aesthetica spotlights one unmissable show for each month of 2022. This selection spans the globe, from a climate-conscious group exhibition in Vienna to the Wolfgang Tillmans retrospective in New York. July | When the Wind Blows Worldwide, 9 out of 10 people .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/5DQyPGa via IFTTT

She created some of the most memorable works of her era. Now the activist-artist is back with two immersive shows, at MoMA and David Zwirner Gallery. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/CBos0kJ via IFTTT

A conservator at the National Galleries of Scotland uncovered the painting on the back of another one by the Dutch artist. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/txB3eCG via IFTTT

The architect’s achievements transformed the landscape of Nevada but were obscured by racism. Janna Ireland’s exhibition changes that. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/aKVQtwE via IFTTT

The idea that the human species can be neatly bracketed into racial groups based on superficial characteristics like skin, hair, and eye color only developed in the 18th century, and mainly took root as a pseudo-scientific justification for slavery and coloni.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/vHLRg59 via IFTTT

Many trends in architecture and home design have come and gone over the past thirty years, and some have not spread as far as they might have. The green architectural movement in much of Asia, for example, in which skyscrapers practically drip with growing th.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/iQcWABF via IFTTT

https://ift.tt/AYJoqPQ We discuss the appeal of this Julian-Fellowes-penned British historical drama in light of the new film. Is this really “a new era” or just more of the sam.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/wLG2ZT7 via IFTTT

He is the first artist of color to have a solo show at the 87-year-old museum, organized by Aimee Ng and Antwaun Sargent. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/YOI8QG7 via IFTTT

A show at Nahmad Contemporary is an outgrowth of debates around “tradition” in art. Can artists embrace beauty while reaching for new technology? from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/8vqYsIV via IFTTT

From our critics, reviews of closed gallery shows around New York City. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/xgeYA86 via IFTTT

John Waters hasn’t made a movie in quite some time, but that doesn’t mean he’s gone quiet. In fact he’s remained as visible a cultural figure as ever by working in other forms: writing a new novel, acting on television, delivering commencement addresses. His .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/6CkZrmJ via IFTTT

Late last year we featured the amazing engineering of the James Webb Space Telescope, which is now the largest optical telescope in space. Capable of registering phenomena older, more distant, and further off the visible spectrum than any previous device, it .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/8ahCKgc via IFTTT

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton is coming to Hamburg in October 2022. And this video gives audiences a taste of what awaits them: The title track “Alexander Hamilton” sung in German. Enjoy… If you would like to get Open Culture post’s via email, please sign up .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/F8es5ty via IFTTT

The photographer, at age 82, is still making waves, with a show at the Danziger Gallery in Los Angeles that debuts a body of work from his past. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/wSsYUWT via IFTTT

“Architecture has to be attentive to its inhabitants and to its place,” British architect Sir David Adjaye (b. 1966) told Forbes in 2018. “It’s very important for me that we work in all social strata, from the very least to the very most.” Architizer’s A+Awar.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/wd6BIHt via IFTTT

“The susceptibility of AI to bias is one of its most visible, acknowledged and harmful features,” writes Professor Helga Nowotny in In AI We Trust (2021, Polity). “Technologies are intrinsically intertwined with conscious or unconscious bias, since they refle.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Yrt1Z7N via IFTTT

For all the other faults of the 2020s, most of humanity now enjoys culinary variety the likes of which it has never before known. Two centuries ago, the selection was considerably narrower. Back then the United States of America, yet to become the highly deve.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Z83B65D via IFTTT

“Just listen. Silence is the poetics of space. What it means to be in a place…. Silence isn’t the absence of something, but the presence of everything.” – acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton The study of acoustic ecology doesn’t get much mainstream attention. B.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Cc8msnU via IFTTT

Public artworks have the power to uplift a city. Sometimes they end up in a museum, but other times in a dumpster. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Cyf4VFh via IFTTT

Minute by minute timelines have become a staple of disaster reporting. Knowing how the story ends puts the public in the position of helpless bystander, especially at those critical junctures when someone in a position of authority exercised poor judgment, re.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/oSYy1cK via IFTTT

The Antico Setificio Fiorentino, which relies on looms from the 18th and 19th centuries, has been producing precious textiles since 1786. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/NKcazts via IFTTT

We would rather not grieve. Because we avoid it, death can leave us numb, and we may not know how to talk about it without turning loss into a lesson. “Even when it’s expected, death or loss still comes as a surprise,” writes psychotherapist Megan Devine in h.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/RO2W6Hx via IFTTT

Earlier this week we featured Sergei Bondarchuk’s four-part film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. You can watch that most ambitious of all filmed versions of War and Peace free online on the Youtube channel of Mosfilm, the Soviet Union’s national st.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/63NFax5 via IFTTT

Richard Armstrong, whose 14-year tenure was shaped by staff complaints of racism, labor issues and a public outcry over a planned offshoot in Abu Dhabi, said he will leave the museum in 2023. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/CgedsNG via IFTTT

“The Voynich manuscript is a real medieval book, and has been carbon-dated to the early 1400s.” No modern hoax, this notoriously bizarre text has in fact “passed through the hands of many over the years,” including “scientists, emperors, and collectors.” Thou.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/4uyAbi3 via IFTTT

Ilina Mustafina is a New York-based artist, photographer, and architectural and fashion designer whose works have an organic, authentic and spontaneous focus. Her pieces are softly compelling, offering an innate understanding of light, colour, shadow and stru.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/74M3ANa via IFTTT

Outside the art establishment for decades, Charles Smith has sculpted his Black heroes in Aurora, Ill., and now in Hammond, La. At 81, he’s getting his first show in New York. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/C8Rvz6T via IFTTT

Are you feeling confident about the future? No? We understand. Would you like to know what it was like to feel a deep certainty that the decades to come were going to be filled with wonder and the fantastic? Well then, gaze upon this clip from the BBC Archive.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/wV618f3 via IFTTT

A nonprofit that has been supporting community-based artistic ventures inaugurates its new home in Brooklyn. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/o5BxL8D via IFTTT

His paintings refer to race and racism, pride and prejudice, in ways that startled, seduced, elucidated, and horrified. Now they are at the New Museum. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/YGV7gaw via IFTTT

Best known for unmasking domestic violence, the pathbreaking photojournalist has a show timed to coincide with the reversal of Roe v. Wade. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/TkevU8E via IFTTT

The first edition of Les Rencontres d’Arles – France’s now annual summer photography festival – took place in 1970. More than 50 years later, it returns with a searing programme featuring more than 160 artists. Humanitarian photography, wartime documentary an.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/rwbTuEA via IFTTT

“America has only three great cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” This quotation has been repeated for decades — not least, unsurprisingly, in New Orleans. I saw and heard it often on my last trip there, and though.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/TefSAGF via IFTTT

Millvinia Dean, the last surviving passenger of the RMS Titanic, died in 2009. She’d lived a full life of 97 years, but that meant that she’d been only two months old when the famously luxurious and innovative ship hit the iceberg that sent it to the bottom o.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/xJlCy8Q via IFTTT

In historic mansions where Sargent and Boldini reigned, a new generation of portraitists unites against the Old Guard for a summer show. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/16xawn2 via IFTTT

Stephanie Clegg paid $90,000 for a Marc Chagall painting at a Sotheby’s auction in 1994. It was reappraised for $100,000 in 2008. Now an expert panel in France wants to destroy it as a fake. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/mFnVwkL via IFTTT

Activists are gluing themselves to the frames of iconic paintings. They say it does not matter whether their actions are popular — only whether they are noticed. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/4ZPXdeE via IFTTT

Prophecies are really about now. In science fiction it’s always about now. What else could it be about? There is no future. There are many possibilities, but we do not know which one we are going to have. — Margaret Atwood There is no need to explain why Marg.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/xnvz2Gt via IFTTT

Imagine a city with no artificial light: no street lamps, no domestic illumination, nothing except for the sun in the day and the moon at night – all apart from the flickering of candles. Artificial light has allowed modern life to thrive, but it can be harsh.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/257ALem via IFTTT

“Photography preceded cinema, but does this imply that photography is the parent of cinema?” Writer and curator David Campany asked this question in 2008, dedicating an entire book to the subject. From Eadweard Muybridge’s 19th century motion studies to conte.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/2DTtrFN via IFTTT

On your first day in architecture school, you have to design a doghouse. Having never set foot inside an architecture school, I concede that the previous sentence may well be false, but you have to admit that it sounds plausible. As the simplest form of shelt.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/6pZDmA2 via IFTTT

On the question of whether novels can successfully be turned into films, the cinephile jury remains out. In the best cases a filmmaker takes a literary work and reinvents it almost entirely in accordance with his own vision, which usually requires a book of m.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/BnNGUIp via IFTTT

My issue is that it’s all very well to sit back and complain but when it’s your country you have a responsibility. – Cass Elliot What could be more heavenly than Cass Elliot of The Mamas & The Papas and singer-songwriter John Denver harmonizing on Denver’.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/yLoxWu1 via IFTTT

In 1939, Igor Stravinsky emigrated to the United States, first arriving in New York City, before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard during the 1939-40 academic year. While living in Boston, th.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/6Wg8ucs via IFTTT

A downpour, a dust storm and an encounter with a lively dig team offered a photographer a new perspective on the country’s celebrated tombs. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/YFPi6jh via IFTTT

In Maurice Sendak’s children’s book Where the Wild Things Are (1963) the protagonist Max is sent to bed as punishment after an evening of high jinks dressed in a wolf suit. In the silence of his room a remarkable process occurs – a forest grows. The border be.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/va7N9VT via IFTTT

We all learned a bit about the Second World War in school, or perhaps more than a bit. But for a great many of us, what we know of that period of history comes less from teachers and textbooks than it does from movies. World War II as a cinematic genre has ex.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/rDbpKNv via IFTTT

As climate change and government actions lead to water scarcity and desecration, Native American artists send an urgent message. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/4w7ivZD via IFTTT

Interviews Wippet Good: A Conversation Between Don McKellar and David Cronenberg on Crimes of the Future by Lawrence Garcia, Don McKellar Send in the Clowns: Qiu Jiongjiong on A New Old Play by Shelly Kraicer Gross Anatomy: Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/MxvHSA6 via IFTTT

David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future may be marked as a “return” for the 79-year-old director in a number of respects. His first feature in eight years, it is also his first to be based on an original script since eXistenZ. In addition, Crimes sees Cronenbe.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/XfDBzJq via IFTTT

The brightest light in the Chinese independent cinema world at this moment is Beijing-based filmmaker and artist Qiu Jiongjiong. In an atmosphere in China of increasing surveillance and control of non-official, unauthorized artistic activity in China, Qiu, now.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ngbPaQA via IFTTT

...watching this movie frequently hurts like hell, and not just physically. With a camera that furiously navigates its subjects’ myriad intestinal tracts, cranial cavities, and other, mercifully unidentifiable visceral miscellany, De Humani Corporis Fabrica is.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/6Osqmd4 via IFTTT

Everybody is staring into the sky, wearing special glasses or holding up black strips to protect their eyes. She stops at a park, joining a small group of people, putting on her sunglasses. Dogs bark as the light dims—they are awaiting a solar eclipse. “Not ju.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/S48fK2a via IFTTT

By Mark Peranson The 75th anniversary celebration of Cannes was very much a “celebration of cinema,” a my-God-it’s-full-of-stars-studded affair intended as a show of power that, rightly, would make any other such movie-based event jealous. As witnessed by its .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/A5DFzbo via IFTTT

After waiting 34 years to return to the Cannes Competition, Claire Denis deserved a warm welcome back. Instead, she got to be the chosen victim of the Brown Bunny Syndrome, the annually recurring compulsion among festival attendees to proclaim a film as the wo.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/nXDSZCQ via IFTTT

When Jerzy Skolimowski cancelled his press commitments at Cannes to promote his new feature, EO, he denied critics and cinephiles an explanation behind the festival’s most mystifying entry. All but engineered to prompt bemusement, the film, a bold, modern-day .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/GhSIrV9 via IFTTT