Bratescu remained unknown outside Romania until she was in her 80s, but then had major solo shows and represented her country at the Venice Biennale in 2017. “‘A project gets created at the work desk, not in the head,’ she told the online arts magazine The Calvert Journal last year in a typically sparse comment. ‘Art is form.'”
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The Filmmaker Nominated For This Year’s Turner Prize
Naeem Mohaiemen has two films in this year’s big art prize. He says, “I wanted to take the documentary form and jar it slightly. There’s an unmooring. I want people to figure it out by themselves, but it’s OK if they don’t.”
How Does It Work For An Author Take On A Dead Author’s Beloved Characters And Series?
First, the author’s heirs have to want that – and they have to pick the new author carefully. (Often they do want it because, well, money.) One author got good advice from a friend: “He said, ‘Reed, I’m a huge Elvis fan and I’ve seen the greatest Elvis impersonators in the world. And sadly, there’s two things they cannot escape. First, no matter how good their act, I always know it’s not really Elvis. Second, they can never do anything new.'”
Graffiti In Wales Told This Photographer To ‘Go Home,’ So He Walked Back To Poland
Michael Iwanowski walked 1200 miles in as straight a line as he could from Cardiff, where he lives, to his home village, Mokrzeszów, in Poland. He documented the journey on Instagram, of course. What did he find? “My experience was so overwhelmingly positive that it has made me question everything I read in the media about the hardening of attitudes that Brexit has supposedly provoked.”
The Choreographer Shaking Things Up (In A Good Way) At City Ballet
Kyle Abraham feels like a ballet outsider – after all, he’s known for his work in modern dance. But he also feels the pressure of representation: “He is the first black artist in more than a decade to create a new work for the company, and just the seventh in its 70-year history. (In a repertory with more than 400 ballets, just 10 are credited or co-credited to black choreographers.)”
Our Sense Of Smell Is Now A Big Asset In Training Artificial Intelligence
Basically, machines can do a lot – but they’re having a hard time with creating art. Now, “olfactory circuits bear striking similarities to more complex brain regions that have been of interest in the quest to build better machines.”
Ellen Pompeo Negotiated A Salary Raise, And She’s Finding The Backlash, Well, ‘Interesting’
The Grey’s Anatomy star made headlines by leaning in last year, and she says, “Women approached me on the street in tears — crying — and it is really interesting how as women we are really not used to, or accustomed to being forceful and asking for what we want, or asking for what we deserve, or speaking up, or speaking our mind.” But after a couple of other cast members were written off the show, the tone of fan response changed.
Porcelain Isn’t Just For Tea Services Anymore
Artist Arlene Shechet has a public artwork featuring a “rare project with a ceramic piece — ‘Low Hanging Cloud (Lion)’ — that weighs more than a ton.”
Were Television Screens Ever Really Bad For You?
Yep, but not because of their content or the experience of watching. It’s because they were kinda radioactive. “Color television, in this instance, was not just bringing images of the contemporary world into the home; it was also physically manifesting one of that world’s most pressing and feared perils.”
The New Captain Marvel Isn’t Going To Smile For You
One creepy social media guy photoshopped smiles onto Brie Larson’s face in the promotional posters for Captain Marvel. The actor responded by photoshopping the same icky smile onto the other Marvel superheroes, like Ironman and Captain America.