Mark Bradford is an admired artist from Los Angeles, California who earned his an MFA in 1997 and a BFA in 1995. Mark, who is known for his grid-like abstract paintings combining collage with paints reveals that the working-class sensibilities and mashed-up cultural influences that shaped his childhood in the southern Californinan community, continue to [...]
The important question The Cove doesn’t answer, because the filmmakers can only venture to guess, is why? The documentary showcases such a strange stubbornness on the part of the Japanese government, working in defense of a minority of unscrupulous fishermen, for the trade of goods that make only a small amount of money and poison [...]
Not surprisingly, the most obvious theme running through David Finkel’s The Good Soldiers is conflict, however; it’s not the obvious conflict of the Iraq War as a whole. Instead, Finkel focuses on the internal conflict within the soldiers fighting the war on the ground and on the Iraqi citizens of Rustamiyah trying to find [...]
Darwin Wigget is a travel photographer from Canada practicing photography since 1991. Darwin who had no formal training in photography took it up as a hobby in 1986 and his photos soon started selling in 1991. Darwin’s greatest influence in photography has been Freeman Patterson but the renowned Canadian photographer believes in being true to [...]
A film like Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion is difficult to approach so long after the fact as having been discussed and dissected for decades by film critics and scholars, it’s impossible to say anything new about it. Released in 1937, it was immediately embraced by the film community, becoming the first non-English film ever nominated [...]
There comes a moment in some movies after which it can do no wrong. In (500) Days of Summer, it’s a split-screen sequence that contrasts romantic hero Tom Hansen’s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) heightened expectations for a party with the disappointing reality. It’s whimsical in its construction, but so sad in its effect. Like the rest of [...]
The Roman police have recovered Picasso's Little Guitar, from a local businessman, CBC news reported. ...
Glasgow-based artist Richard Wright, who created a gorgeous fresco in gold leaf, has won this ...
Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but The Original of Laura survived and ...
Gwyneth Paltrow has signed on to The Danish Girl, a film chronicling the real-life story ...
Dany Laferrière, a Haitian-born Montrealer known for his provocative and thoughtful novels, has won the ...