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The nonprofit photography organization will relocate in 2024, to offices across from the American Museum of Natural History, with greater visibility. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/xSM9atn via IFTTT

Over the entrance to the Met are medallion portraits of white, male art heroes. Enter Hew Locke with a timely and pointed message about “Gilt” (or “Guilt”). from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/9PktSos via IFTTT

A multi-headed goddess by the sculptor Bharti Kher has arrived at Central Park. Its message is open to interpretation — and comfortable with contradiction. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/JtOVKYs via IFTTT

Elaborate dairy sculptures have graced dining tables since the 1500s. Now chefs and food artists are making them look like Le Corbusier chairs. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/1Rf6C3D via IFTTT

In the early eighteenth century, a pocket watch could keep reasonably accurate time, give or take a minute per day. This may not sound too bad, given how we now regard even the most advanced technology of that era. But it certainly wasn’t good enough for mari.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/skAUxgB via IFTTT

https://ift.tt/wCpaZ6x To honor the death of Gilbert Gottfried, Pretty Much Pop addresses jokes like the 9-11 one he was pilloried for. Can comedy really be “too soon” in relati.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/xa1VIYA via IFTTT

Over the last 20 years, society has witnessed an array of landmark design moments. The launch of the iPhone is just one example; in 2007 it transformed how we connect with others, share information and consume content. Today, as we look towards life in the me.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/SZVoGUB via IFTTT

A refugee from Nazi-annexed Austria, she started a new life in New York drawing powerful, glamorous heroines and broke barriers in a male-dominated field. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/DUMgOjV via IFTTT

Later this month, the auction house will sell works chosen by the Black-owned Galerie Myrtis, amid an increased focus on diversity. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ZtTpd84 via IFTTT

By Michael Sicinski Set in Das’s hometown of Assam, Tora’s Husband is centred on Jaan (Abhijit Das), a restaurateur who has struggled to make ends meet during the government-mandated COVID lockdown. But as the film continually emphasizes, Jaan did everything h.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/fBn21So via IFTTT

By Clara Miranda Scherffig The Banshees of Inisherin is a pessimistic fable told in the way of a black comedy-drama. In the style of Martin McDonagh’s previous efforts, the film exists as a self-contained, odd universe that aptly plays out on an island, the fi.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/LixoWBu via IFTTT

By Meg Shields They said it couldn’t be done. But someone has finally made a boring movie about Olivia Colman being horny. Directed by Sam Mendes, shot by Roger Deakins, and scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Empire of Light is a technically proficient b.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/a0fY5eJ via IFTTT

By Saffron Maeve  Much like the maggot-licked suckling pig shrivelling on the front porch in Ti West’s prequel to this year’s porno-slasher X, Pearl is an increasingly meatless and eye-grabbing article, comprising the kind of prepensed exposition that could on.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/xnykGUY via IFTTT

By Ally Oman The greatest disservice that could be done to Biosphere would be to sell it on the grounds of the strange direction its plot takes. Set in a near future in which the only two survivors of a global catastrophe are best friends Ray (Sterling K. Brow.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/XEKRpof via IFTTT

For almost forty years, we’ve been losing the French New Wave. François Truffaut and Jacques Demy died young, back in the twentieth century; Henri Colpi, Éric Rohmer, and Claude Chabrol followed in the early years of the twenty-first. The last decade alone sa.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/8pwXrN7 via IFTTT

September sees a flurry of major art and culture events in Istanbul. The city has become a hotspot for new talent in recent years, with showcases like Contemporary Istanbul – running 19-22 September – providing a platform for local artists to show work alongs.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/M7mnhXu via IFTTT

Just Above Midtown, an incubator of some of the most important Black avant-garde art of the 1970s and ’80s, is the subject of a new exhibition. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/CZ6IPOQ via IFTTT

By Madeleine Wall Nazare, Portugal boasts of having the largest waves in the world. Averaging around 50 feet in height, they often end up going up to 80, with 100 as the highest ever recorded. Crowds gather along the shoreline to see these massive behemoths ri.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/JAKSzHY via IFTTT

By Sofia Majstorovic “I’m gonna tell you this and then I’m gonna go,” says Carey (Adelaide Clemens), the reluctantly wistful protagonist of The Swearing Jar, Lindsay MacKay’s banter-laden follow-up to Wet Bum (2014). Carey’s ding-dong-ditch attitude towards he.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/aYCqLpt via IFTTT

By Michael Sicinski Is it possible that some folks were too productive during COVID? It has become a common joke that almost nobody took advantage of the quarantine to write that novel or master a new language. But William Kentridge spent that time making a ni.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/TowEZ5g via IFTTT

By Winnie Wang Amidst stark plains and interiors in rural Missouri, 18-year-old Haas (Hannah Schiller) is faced with an uncertain future after the sudden death of her father Al, an outcast burdened with debt and dubious plans to flip properties along the Missi.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/hI53boe via IFTTT

By Angelo Muredda A corrupt deal with a mysterious nurse who brings death rather than life unravels a tightly wound family in Carolina Markowicz’s ambitious and sometimes inscrutable first feature, Charcoal, which is pitched somewhere between a fable, a comedy.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/wnjsTRh via IFTTT

By Adam Nayman “The virus can’t tell the difference between Jews and Arabs,” exclaims a character early on in A Gaza Weekend, giving British-Palestinian director Basil Khalil’s wearyingly zany plague comedy a low-calorie humanistic thesis statement. The idea t.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/8gDpqkL via IFTTT

No one person can take credit for the invention of American Sign Language. Its history reaches back to the early 19th century, when forms of sign developed among Deaf communities in New England. Early attempts at a signed form of English that replicated phone.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ptIJZam via IFTTT

Asked to name our favorite concrete building, many of us would struggle to hold back a sneer. Though the copious use of that material by mid-twentieth-century style known as Brutalism has lately gained new generations of enthusiasts, we still more commonly he.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/k86MGDt via IFTTT

In 2010, at the age of 15, Tony (aka Zipho) Gum (b. 1995) emerged onto the scene with an art blog posting pictures of herself, using photography as a way to connect with the world and take up space. Through these creative, yet defiant, images, she critiqued t.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/egPEq7r via IFTTT

The silver quarter shekel, estimated to be worth as much as $1 million, was minted in the first century by Jews who created it as a statement of sovereignty during the uprising known as The Great Revolt. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/GAyYer6 via IFTTT

A heads up on a deal: Between now and September 29 2022, Coursera is offering a $100 discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $299) gives you access to 7,000+ world-class course.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/TDnIxwe via IFTTT

By Angelo Muredda Argentine filmmaker Diego Lerman makes a satisfying if derivative riff on To Sir, With Love (1967) with El Suplente, a slow-burning social-realist drama about an educator in Buenos Aires caught between teaching, administrative inertia, and ac.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/e2stGEM via IFTTT

By Sofia Majstorovic “I never asked them to come here,”proffers Jael, a young woman from the Kenyan village of Kogutu, who quite literally becomes the child left behind in Sam Soko and Laren DeFilippo’s sprawling documentary Free Money. The clerical error that.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/BMId19n via IFTTT

By Michael Sicinski Narrative reflexivity. Some scholars argue that it began with Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, while others go back as far as Plato’s dialogues. In cinema, it’s been around pretty much from the beginning, with Edwin Porter’s 1902 short comedy Uncl.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/EQ0OTNY via IFTTT

By Anna Swanson North of Normal wastes absolutely no time in setting up a story that, were it not based on true events, would seem almost too outlandish to conceive of. Directed by Carly Stone and adapted from Cea Sunrise Person’s memoir (the screenplay is by .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/tvGc63D via IFTTT

By Madeleine Wall  Stop me if you’ve heard this one before—a woman walks into a bar at the end of the world. The woman, simply known as She (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) settles down into a Northern Ontario dive bar for the evening, gradually noticing the young ma.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/yQEuac9 via IFTTT

The first subway train, as we know such things today, entered service in 1890. Its path is now part of the Northern line of the London Underground, itself the first urban metro system. The success of the Tube, as it’s commonly known, didn’t come right away; t.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/vMc73jR via IFTTT

Many UK readers may recognise Ugo Rondinone’s innovative and eye-catching Liverpool Mountain at Albert Dock – a totemic stack of vibrantly coloured stones staking their claim amidst the cobbled dockyard, stood like a bold and spiritual intervention in an othe.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/3aJ02FW via IFTTT

By Josh Lewis  Montreal, 1984. A world of hounding landlords, drag-show auditions, and desperate children in search of family according to this debut comic-drama about living on the economic and cultural fringes from Métis filmmaker Gail Maurice. Due to a few .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ik7yOUe via IFTTT

A quick heads up: The University of Chicago Press will soon publish the first biography of the Swedish avant-garde painter Hilma af Klint–an artist we have explored here many times before. Written by Julia Voss, the 440-page biography features nearly 100 imag.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/74oQCpO via IFTTT

By Saffron Maeve  You’ve already met Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen), the tenacious Kubrick-truther with zero EQ and lofty dreams of the Tisch School Of The Arts. He’s no far cry from the goading basement dwellers colloquially termed “film bros,” a brand of.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/pNzqwrC via IFTTT

El Anatsui, Bernardine Evaristo and Dianne Reeves are among those pairing up for the program. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/m7eo1x6 via IFTTT

By Ally Oman  It’s What Each Person Needs (Sophy Romvari, Canada) Finessing what is often at play in Sophy Romvari’s work, It’s What Each Person Needs toes the line between truth and fabrication, documentary and fiction. The film depicts a series of video call.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/1b0VKqQ via IFTTT

Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was one of the world’s most photographed and painted people. Three artists explain how they made portraits of the monarch that stood out from the crowd. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/pAIkliM via IFTTT

By Michael Sicinski An exceptionally bold programming choice by TIFF’s Wavelengths team, Moyra Davey’s feature expands on many of the conceptual tropes that have guided her photographs and video works for the past decade. In some regards a direct extension of .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/dByvPb3 via IFTTT

By Madeleine Wall Despite having arrived in Canada five years ago from Syria, Rashid (Hussam Douhna) and his wife Fahra (Amani Ibrahim) have not entirely settled in. Whatever promises a country founded in Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water gave them, they wak.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/cAYSMNV via IFTTT

By Robert Koehler Published in Cinema Scope #90 (Spring 2022) Living, Ishiguro Kazuo’s adaptation of Kurosawa Akira, Hashimoto Shinobu, and Oguni Hideo’s screenplay for Ikiru (1952), is the author’s finest script in English in several years. This isn’t to slig.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/XYj2bvl via IFTTT

Home baked sourdough had its moment during the early days of the pandemic, but otherwise bread has been much maligned throughout the 21st century, at least in the Western World, where carbs are vilified by body-conscious consumers. This was hardly the case on.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/AR13NBn via IFTTT

In a break with tradition, there was no ceremony while former President Donald J. Trump held office. President Biden unveiled the Obama portraits: his by Robert McCurdy, hers by Sharon Sprung. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/rU3DvIH via IFTTT

By Michael Sicinski Those discovering Patricio Guzmán’s latest documentary at TIFF are in for a much more bittersweet experience than those who caught its world premiere in Cannes. That’s because the film concludes with a rather spectacular bit of hope. Guzmán.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/fRuU1xW via IFTTT

Highlights include grand retrospectives of Alex Katz and Wolfgang Tillmans, a titanic assembly of van Gogh and a celebration of the pioneering Just Above Midtown gallery. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/hrRqbsy via IFTTT

With designs that strive to enhance ecology, strengthen community and affirm cultural identity, today’s innovative buildings and projects transcend style. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/kfRF1ra via IFTTT

First the Titanic was claimed by the ocean; now it’s being eaten by the ocean. “The iconic ocean liner that was sunk by an iceberg is now slowly succumbing to metal-eating bacteria,” the Associated Press’ Ben Finley reported last year. “Holes pervade the wrec.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/bOg3QhG via IFTTT

Mikhail Gorbachev, the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union, died last month at age 91, a news event that triggered responses ranging from “Who?” to “Wow, was he still alive?” The first response reflects poorly on the teaching of history: journalists repo.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/BKeECIv via IFTTT

“Regeneration” is a worthwhile look at stars and films, but it presents a tale of difficulty and triumph that doesn’t always engage with Hollywood’s history of racism. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/AvKqJ40 via IFTTT

Théâtre D’opéra Spatial by Jason Allen Jason Allen via Discord The technology behind artificial intelligence-aided art has long been in development, but the era of artificial intelligence-aided art feels like a sudden arrival. Since the recent release of DALL.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/JGCvjUi via IFTTT

The great thinkers of the past knew nothing of Youtube — which, we might be tempted to say today, enabled them to become great thinkers in the first place. This is, of course, uncharitable: surely the rise of streaming media counts among the most important de.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/l1SH3o7 via IFTTT

By Jay Kuehner Published in Cinema Scope #92 (Fall 2022) “Not only should man know what he is making, but if possible he should see how it is used—see how nature is changed by him. Every man’s work should be an object of contemplation for him.”—Simone Weil, La.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/TQ3F28g via IFTTT

By Lawrence Garcia Cristian Mungiu’s latest state-of-the-nation address, R.M.N., takes its title from the Romanian acronym for nuclear magnetic resonance—a phenomenon familiar from its use in various forms of medical imaging, such as brain scans. And the direc.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/6bHapRI via IFTTT

By Winnie Wang In his follow-up to Mariupolis (2016), the late Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius returns to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol to document the devastating effects of the 2022 Russian invasion as it unfolds. Composed entirely of verité foota.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ah9gqwm via IFTTT

By Jason Anderson Published in Cinema Scope #92 (Fall 2022) The image of Paul Mescal lost and losing himself in a crowded, strobe-lit dancefloor is the most haunting leitmotif in Charlotte Wells’ debut feature Aftersun, a film that would be acutely musical in .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/1R8Ytbk via IFTTT

By James Lattimer Published in Cinema Scope #91 (Summer 2022) João Pedro Rodrigues has always made shifting between disparate registers and genres appear like the most natural thing in the world, and his self-declared musical fantasy Will-o’-the-Wisp is anothe.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/hz6e8PB via IFTTT

The Orange County Museum of Art inaugurates its new building with a tribute to Fred Eversley, an unheralded pioneer of the Light and Space movement. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/HEn3mXF via IFTTT

By Jordan Cronk Published in Cinema Scope #91 (Summer 2022) 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 en.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/sJfXThd via IFTTT

This fall, historian Timothy Snyder is teaching a course at Yale University called The Making of Modern Ukraine. And he’s generously making the lectures available on YouTube–so that you can follow along too. The first lecture appears above. Subsequent lecture.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/c2m1vfT via IFTTT

In a ‘magical place’ in the Connecticut woods, one couple built a rural escape where the most fragile artwork is just out of reach. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/aHQmoCi via IFTTT

A woman stands completely still. Beside her is a long table covered by a white tablecloth and an assortment of items – among them flowers, lipstick, a brush, a fork, a scalpel and a gun. A note reads: “Instructions. There are 72 objects on the table that one .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Ws5pRqn via IFTTT

Mud everywhere…and where there wasn’t mud, there was fog, and in between was us, enjoying ourselves. – Berta Ruck Berta Ruck and Frances ‘Effy’ Jones were teenagers in the 1890s, and while their recollections of their formative years in muddy old London are h.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Vjs7aZv via IFTTT

Twenty years ago, a grass court emerged from the surrounding cornfields in Charles City. Its story is colored by exacting standards, profound loss and, ultimately, rebirth. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/AQ2ZpSu via IFTTT

The Foo Fighters have teamed up with Taylor Hawkins’ family to stream worldwide their all-star celebration of the legendary drummer. Above you can stream the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert taking place in Wembley Stadium.  Note: if you missed the beginning, y.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/TjedSLH via IFTTT

A look at the international creative talent showcased at Paris Design Week and the London Design Festival. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/hAgD0LX via IFTTT

When an interior designer decided to make a big move during the worst months of the pandemic, she planned her new rental around several key pieces. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/zq8PcGT via IFTTT

The museum said it is cooperating with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has executed several search warrants at the museum since February. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ZL0qM1u via IFTTT

The visual artist Charles Atlas started his video career with Merce Cunningham, but his new Pioneer Works project shows how many leaps he has taken since. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/EI7TYeF via IFTTT

The term ‘biomorphic’ is derived from two Greek words: ‘bios’ (meaning life) and “morphe” (translating as form). In art, it’s used to describe shapes that evoke naturally occurring patterns – like plants, living organisms and parts of the human body. Italian .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/JB57E3K via IFTTT

The artist has been a major — if underrecognized — American talent. But the biggest look yet at her achievement gives it a whole new stature. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/tZ7xI0Q via IFTTT

The polyphonic artist finds ways to enjoy the harrowing business of putting herself, or versions of it, on display. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ws7UyG8 via IFTTT

A bounty of Latin American and Latino art is coming our way for the fall and winter season, but don’t miss important shows on South Asian and Indigenous art. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/RUfnZD4 via IFTTT

Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood Where Christopher Robin plays You’ll find the enchanted neighborhood Of Christopher’s childhood days… Those sweetly sentimental lyrics were penned not by A.A. Milne, creator of Winnie-The-Pooh but rather the Academy-Award winning.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/HIzlGNi via IFTTT

Even cinephiles who know little of the business of film distribution will have developed associations, however unconscious, between certain pre-feature corporate logos and the exhilarating cinematic experiences that tend to follow. What sort of picture comes .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/3KrB60y via IFTTT

The fashion-turned-furniture designer lets his creativity flow from wherever. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/3Au26Lz via IFTTT

New York’s The Armory Show, first launched in 1994, is considered by many to be a cornerstone of the art world calendar. This year’s edition takes place 9-11 September. Here are five artists to know. Zanele Muholi | Yancey Richardson Gallery “All I want to se.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Hv6T7os via IFTTT

Lyricists must write concretely enough to be evocative, yet vaguely enough to allow each listener his personal interpretation. The nineteen-sixties and seventies saw an especially rich balance struck between resonant ambiguity and massive popularity — aided, .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/oIlFZfp via IFTTT

Elton John is packing up his fabulous outfits and hitting stages for the last time, making a graceful exit from the road at age 75 with his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour. He will, of course, make a stop at Dodger Stadium, where he played one of his most f.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/gntZR8l via IFTTT

Amsterdam Noord – a short ferry from the capital’s main railway station – is establishing itself as one of the Netherlands’ most up-and-coming creative districts, home, as of 2020, to Nxt Museum, a destination for cutting-edge digital art. The museum’s latest.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/1LF3YMB via IFTTT