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...used a ‘pull and pinch’ method.” Professor Blier then focused on Odundo’s work in the context of African art’s importance to the Western world. “To me, one of the reasons I love African art is because the primacy of sculpture,” she said. “In [Odundo’s] works as well, it is almost as if the work becomes a new work as one moves around it and looks at its various shapes...
...means business. Enter Beck with his new video, “Gamma Ray,” named after the most deadly form of electromagnetic radiation. The master ironist is here to warn us of a world full of melting icecaps and approaching apocalypse. (There may also be a love story somewhere in the lyrics.) Though the world may be ending, Beck’s constant inventiveness and bizarreness certainly are not. To go along with the 60s feel of the song, the video sees lots of long, hippie hair, multi-colored sunglasses, and dozens of close-up shots of Beck?...
...photograph that circulated in an e-mail last spring, Fidel Castro holds up a poster emblazoned with President-elect Barack Obama’s face, the words “I love this guy!” superimposed above Castro’s head. Despite the e-mail’s subject line—”Fidel Castro endorses Obama”—the former Cuban president had done no such thing. The image was a doctored advertisement aimed at Cuban-American voters circulated by the Florida Republican Party. In a presentation at the Berkman Center...
There is an intuitive bias when judging the cinematic merit of films that feature the last shining moments of a dearly loved star—in the case of “Soul Men,” comedy king Bernie Mac. The death of the lead actor threatens to overtake much of the film’s content, unintentionally confining it to the rose-colored domain of a tribute; a funeral with popcorn and sticky floors. This is not to say that movies with recently departed stars are only well-received for this reason. “Dark Knight...
...Michelle Williams in “Synecdoche, New York.” Hoffman, a playwright and recent recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, is in the midst of an existential dilemma over the theater piece he’s fashioning with his prize money. Williams, his dimwitted lead actress-cum-love interest, responds with a mixture of empathy and idiocy: “That’s what’s so refreshing.”From its opening moments, it may seem that screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut is treading water—the notion...