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...Zedong's unsmiling visage inspired Andy Warhol and adorns China's currency. Now the original portrait of the founder of the People's Republic is--heresy!--going under the hammer in Beijing on June 3. Painted in 1950 by art-school instructor Zhang Zhenshi, the image was reproduced and distributed across China--and was the model for the portrait that still looms over Beijing's Tiananmen Square...
...hours later, Stetson's children were still busy turning their own faces into digitized kaleidoscopes on a computer installation. With all its sculpture, video, paintings, death masks and distorting mirrors, "T?te ? T?te" is exhaustively stimulating. Afterward, you might just find yourself resting in Georges Pomipidou Plaza, while a portrait artist preserves your head for posterity. tel: (33-1) 44 78 49 13; centrepompidou.fr
...melodrama earned him best directing honors at Cannes for his 1993 Caro Diario (Dear Diary) and the 2001 Palme d'Or for La Stanza del Figlio (The Son's Room). This year, he is again among the favorites to win the top prize for Il Caimano, a multilayered portrait of a disintegrating marriage, the movie business and that certain billionaire politician. Potential praise at Cannes aside, Moretti has spent much of the past five years denouncing the very man whose presence inspired his film. Il Caimano debuted in March amid Berlusconi's bitter campaign against Romano Prodi. Although Moretti says...
...What we have in this film, essentially, is a portrait of man hard at work (at age 77 incidentally), and that, these days, is a good (and rare) thing. Ask a man what he does and how he obsessively does it and you almost invariably get a fascinating document. For eventually we define ourselves by what we do, not by what we think we?re doing or what other people think we may be up to. In architecture, as in every thing else, the making is everything. And this relatively short, elegantly shot and edited film, makes us privy...
...children were still busy turning their own faces into digitized kaleidoscopes on a computer installation. With all its sculpture, video, paintings, death masks and distorting mirrors, Tête à Tête is exhaustively stimulating. Afterward, you might just find yourself resting in Georges Pomipidou Plaza, while a portrait artist preserves your head for posterity. tel: (33-1) 44 78 49 13; centrepompidou.fr