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...works come from a singular collection amassed by Dutch philatelist Wim van der Bijl and his associate Ronald de Groen. As a stamp dealer participating in international fairs, the Utrecht-based Van der Bijl befriended a North Korean dealer who later switched from stamps to art. On a visit to Pyongyang in early 2003, Van der Bijl's contact offered him some souvenir landscapes from around Asia, but the Dutchman turned them down, expressing interest instead in the propaganda posters he had seen around the city. "But I was told those were not for export," recalls Van der Bijl...
...Yasujiro Ozu festival finishes up at the HFA, take a chance on this classic 1932 silent, a favorite of knowing Ozuphiles like director Wim Wenders, writer Phillip Lopate and movie critic Donald Richie. Like much Ozu, this film deals with the interplay within a family: raised in the suburbs, kids are bullied by better-off children. The bullies particularly delight in pointing out the father’s middle-management position. In retaliation, the kids become bullies themselves and begin protesting their parents’ mediocrity. The real treat, however, is live Benshi (narrators of silent films) narration by Midori...
...Carpenter Center exhibit was the brainchild of Eric Rentschler, chair of the department of Germanic Languages and Literature at Harvard. Rentschler, who also teaches in the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department, was well-acquainted with Wim Wenders’s films. He and Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber, the director of the Carpenter Center and chair of VES, brought the Wenders exhibit to the Carpenter Center before its next stop in Washington...
...stolen Russian Horizon camera. The Art Panorama, however, was extremely heavy, and the Aboriginals with whom Wenders traveled gave him the name “the madman with the camera.” Wenders defended his choice of cameras in the companion book to the exhibition, Wim Wenders: Photos...
...media, he has focused on landscapes on the verge of obliteration or demolishment, from pre-unification Berlin in Wings of Desire to abandoned cities of the American West and decaying houses in Cuba in his new exhibit, “Pictures From the Surface of the Earth: Photographs by Wim Wenders,” which is being shown at the James Cohen Gallery in New York City through...