Aperture Foundation Lands a New Headquarters

The nonprofit photography organization will relocate in 2024, to offices across from the American Museum of Natural History, with greater visibility.

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The Eyes Have It in Hew Locke’s Power-Challenging Show

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”).

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Bharti Kher’s Multi-Headed Goddess Statue Arrives at Central Park

A multi-headed goddess by the sculptor Bharti Kher has arrived at Central Park. Its message is open to interpretation — and comfortable with contradiction.

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I Can’t Believe It’s Butter!

Elaborate dairy sculptures have graced dining tables since the 1500s. Now chefs and food artists are making them look like Le Corbusier chairs.

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The Clock That Changed the World: How John Harrison’s Portable Clock Revolutionized Sea Navigation in the 18th Century

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..

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When Is a Joke “Too Soon”? — Comedians Discuss on Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #132

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..

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5 to See: London Design Festival 2022

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..

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Lily Renée Phillips, Pioneering Comic Book Artist, Dies at 101

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.

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Christie’s and a Baltimore Gallery to Sell Work by Black Artists

Later this month, the auction house will sell works chosen by the Black-owned Galerie Myrtis, amid an increased focus on diversity.

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TIFF 2022 | Tora’s Husband (Rima Das, India) — Platform

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..

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TIFF 2022 | The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, Ireland) — Special Presentations

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..

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TIFF 2022 | Empire of Light (Sam Mendes, UK/US) — Special Presentations

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..

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TIFF 2022 | Pearl (Ti West, US) — Midnight Madness

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..

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TIFF 2022 | Biosphere (Mel Eslyn, US) — Special Presentations

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..

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RIP Jean-Luc Godard: Watch the French New Wave Icon Explain His Contrarian Worldview Back in the 1960s

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..

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Breaking from Tradition:Contemporary Istanbul

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..

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A Utopian Space for Black Artists, Reimagined at MoMA

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.

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TIFF 2022 | Maya and the Wave (Stephanie Johnes, US) — TIFF Docs

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..

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TIFF 2022 | The Swearing Jar (Lindsay MacKay, Canada) — Contemporary World Cinema

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..

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TIFF 2022 | Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot (William Kentridge, South Africa/US) — TIFF Docs

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..

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