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Then there's No. 7: In Emily Jacir's Material for a Film, 2005, the New York-based Palestinian artist presents various "documents" surrounding the 1972 assassination of activist Wael Zuaiter by Mossad agents in Rome as an absorbing artistic picture puzzle. At center stage are the letters of Zuaiter...
Even more than Tenmyouya's stylized samurai or Matsui's feminist ghosts, Machida's surreal and often frankly sexual paintings-like Little Boy: Good Luck Talisman-seem to have little in common with staid 19th century forms. But Machida says artistic categories are "just brand names," so she doesn't...
El Bulli has also become the center of a lively debate about the aesthetic value of avant-garde cuisine. Suddenly art critics and foodies alike are scrutinizing the gin fizz that manages simultaneously to be hot and cold, the edible "paper" dotted with flowers, the frozen parmesan "air" that comes...
If Franziska is the Charlie who won a golden ticket to the Chocolate Factory, Adrià is Willy Wonka. For all his influence and renown, the chef still clearly delights in his work, and his enthusiasm for the joy that food can bring is contagious. "This is the most beautiful...
Directors like to think of themselves as adventurers: taking big-budget risks, leading actors and technicians into the artistic unknown, often shooting in faraway locations. But no filmmaker can match Werner Herzog for inspiring recklessness. The German director's movie sojourns take him not just to remote corners of Peru...