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"Depuis plus de 30 ans, Christopher Wool explore les territoires de la peinture abstraite par une continuelle interrogation du procédé pictural : recours à la répétition, application de méthodes de l’art conceptuel et minimal, adaptation d’images photographiques, et travail avec différentes techniques comme le spray, l’encre pour sérigraphie et la reproduction numérique." - Adriano

if you *really* like well-produced black humor... "Breaking Bad is an American television drama series, set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, about Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), with the aim of securing his family's financial future before he dies. Breaking Bad has received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its writing, cinematography, and the acting ability of its cast. The series has won six Emmy Awards—including three consecutive wins for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Cranston." See also Salon articles: http://www.salon.com/topic... - Adriano

Bryan Cranston answers Fan Questions: "I've never asked Vince [Gilligan] what's going to happen or how it's going to happen. I'm in exactly the same place as the audience will be after Season 5." \\ Q: How do you think Walter White would want to be remembered? http://blogs.amctv.com/breakin... - Adriano

"Kandel builds on the work of Gombrich and the psychoanalyst and art historian Ernst Kris -- to compare the painters' rendering of emotion, the unconscious, and the libido with contemporaneous psychological insights from Freud about latent aggression, pleasure and death instincts, and other primal drives. The book also summarizes centuries of research on perception. You'll find dossiers on vision as information processing; the brain's three-dimensional-space mapping and its interpretations of two-dimensional renderings; face recognition; the mirror neurons that enable us to empathize and physically reflect the affect and intentions we see in others. Kandel discusses the scientific evidence that creativity is nurtured by spells of relaxation, which foster a connection between conscious and unconscious cognition." - Adriano

7 April 2012 Jonah Lehrer interviews Kandel regarding his book. Kandel discusses the influence of Carl von Rokitansky throughout all of Viennese Modernism. http://www.wired.com/wiredsc... - Adriano

In 1590, the Ottoman sultan Murad III ordered a Turkish translation of a 1540 abridged version of Aflaki’s text entitled Tarjuma-i Thawaqib-i manaqib (Stars of the Legend). Two illustrated copies of the Murad translation survive — one, dated 1599, is held by Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace and features 22 miniatures; the other, a more lavish manuscript dating to the 1590s and including 29 miniatures, is held by New York’s Morgan Library." http://www.themorgan.org/collect... - Adriano

"Richter has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass media representation alongside explorations of chance procedures. The first glimpse inside his studio in decades, Gerhard Richter Painting is exactly that: a thrilling document of the 79-year-old's creative process, juxtaposed with rare archival footage and intimate conversations with his critics and collaborators." http://www.gerhardrichterpainting.com - Adriano

"Giraud was born in France in May 1938 and, in his 20s, made his reputation with Les Aventures de Blueberry, penned by Jean-Michel Charlier. In 1974, the artist launched the adult sci-fi and fantasy comics anthology Métal Hurlant (Heavy Metal). He inspired the design of many sci-fi movies including Ridley Scott’s films Alien and Blade Runner, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, and Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element. "Moebius is to comic books what Miles Davis is to jazz: the master," Besson once said. Giraud died after a battle with cancer. He was 73." See his works http://butdoesitfloat.com/filter... and video documentary http://www.dailymotion.com/video... - Adriano

"Will open the Cannes Film Festival in May... Anderson’s seventh feature, set in 1965, takes place on an island off the New England coast. With a cast that includes Bill Murray, Bruce Willis and Frances McDormand, it’s the story of a romance between a pair of precocious 12-year-olds who run away, presumably to somewhere really picturesque. “Moonrise Kingdom” is the writer-director’s first live-action film since “Darjeeling Limited” in 2007 (the animated “Fantastic Mr. Fox” was nominated for an Oscar in 2010). The festival runs May 16-27, with Nanni Moretti, the Italian filmmaker, serving as president of the jury." http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012... - Adriano

this is great... Bill Murray hosts a tour of Moonrise Kingdom http://youtu.be/m-8OOvf1NPY - Adriano

Sam Shakusky to Suzy Bishop (her favorite fictional characters being orphans): "I love you but you have no idea what you are talking about." - Adriano

I've been thinking to see this movie the past couple of weeks ... I guess it is must now ... :-)) - Sepi ⌘ سپی

"As with all art, provenance is key to determining if a work is by the artist or a fake. However, with artists like Banksy, the early works were often sold without receipt because most people could not fathom that his works would sell at auction and in the private market at the value which they have. However, his career has only spanned for the last 20 years so finding provenance, even with his anonymity still in place, is not the most difficult thing. Because of the value of his work has become so extraordinary there are many groups which verify both his street art and his work which is sold in various reputable places (not on eBay.) You may think it is easy to fake Banksy's work but it has subtle nuances and takes great skill to pull off. Also because he got his start in England there are a few outfits which have had a lot of exposure to his work. Their livelihood depends on confirming both his public works and his pieces sold privately. Back in 2008 a few auction houses decided they better get stricter on provenance for his street works and set up an authentication board called Vermin." - Adriano

"Fairey, 42, sued Associated Press in 2009 after it contended he had infringed on the copyright of one of its photographs in creating the poster. Fairey had claimed in his suit that he had used a different photograph of Obama, but later admitted that he had been mistaken and had tried to conceal his mistake, by destroying documents and fabricating others. "I was ashamed that I had done these things, and I knew I should have corrected my actions," he said on Friday in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Fairey pleaded to one count of criminal contempt and could face up to six months in prison. A prosecutor, Daniel W. Levy, told the magistrate judge, Frank Maas, that the government was likely to seek some term of imprisonment for Fairey, who will be sentenced on July 16." - Adriano

"Good art challenges its own limits. In Zona, Dyer questions both Stalker and his own work and promotes this attitude to art in his readers. It is anti-elitist and anti-esoteric (you don’t even have to have seen Stalker), appealing to all readers. Unlike much criticism, it doesn’t seek to analyse or explain the value of a masterpiece. In fact, it stages a critique of endgame literature that caters to the need to understand art over a desire to engage with it. Not that Dyer necessarily holds that high art means hard work. He is both puritan and voluptuary, believing above all in the personal experience of a work as its own and greatest value. It’s art for art’s and art for your own sake. There is no point in all this, as he says of Zona, ‘the exercise is, of course, its own purpose’." - Adriano

"At the heart of Stalker is a discourse of desire, centred in a Room inside the Zone where dreams come true. The Room is a place we can pool our wishes and it is as real as any other promise-delivering device. Tarkovsky’s hostility to symbolic readings of his films extended to questions about the meaning of the Zone itself: "I’m reduced to a state of fury and despair by such questions. The Zone doesn’t symbolise anything, any more than anything else does in my films: the zone is the zone, it’s life."" - Adriano

Bravo ! Jean Dujardin, devenu dimanche 26 février 2012 le premier acteur français à remporter l'Oscar du meilleur acteur avec le film "The Artist" http://youtu.be/tD_u67Qc13Q à Hollywood, a présenté fou de joie sa statuette à la presse française: http://youtu.be/9fIkTnVxt04 - Adriano

"Albers began painting after he immigrated to the United States; when the Bauhaus closed, he took up an invitation to teach at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and went on to teach at Yale. His Variant paintings of rectangular abstractions were derived from adobe houses that Albers saw on a trip to the Midwest." - Adriano

"I'm emotionally connected to the experience of working with a person, and the images come out of the experience. I never try and ‘make’ a photograph. We were having an inner experience. This photograph is the electromagnetic rendition of what was going on, but there's that slight Mona Lisa quality to that little knowing smile and there is a look in his eye like he is envisioning how what he has on his lap is going to impact the future. You can't legislate moments like that, or when he's sitting on the floor and he's got that impish look and he's got that beer next to him. It's because he's having an emotional experience and the emotional experience becomes body language. All of those energies of that emotional state are actually in that picture. So it becomes indefinable, it is not just a picture." --Norman Seeff - Adriano

"F-111 points to what the artist has described as “the collusion between the Vietnam death machine, consumerism, the media, and advertising.” Rosenquist has often cited a keen interest in the phenomenon of peripheral vision as a driving force behind his decision to make a room-scaled painting. Whatever our eye focuses on at any given moment is necessarily influenced by information at the outermost perimeters of our field of vision, which in turn plays a profound, yet often subconscious, role in our sensory perception. For Rosenquist, who first experimented with this concept while making F-111 and continued to do so throughout his career, Claude Monet's Water Lilies was a touchstone." http://www.moma.org/explore... - Adriano

"The rarest of the rare: Sherman as Sherman in limbo. The artist pulling back the curtains, allowing a glimpse of her in transit to the further shores of self. Hair in Baggie, no makeup. Blank slate; bare stare; ulterior motives; a snake-in-the-grass assassin. \\ Sherman’s pictures are like Zen ­koans. Rather than being about understanding, they’re about coming to grips with the state of mind that produces them. She has a luminous way of breathing life into things that cannot be ­described. Giving herself over to her own processes, Sherman opens up thought and makes pictures that subtly withdraw from definition, dislodging meaning, undermining ideology, becoming what I’d call radically passive." http://nymag.com/fashion... - Adriano

Cindy Sherman and curator Eva Respini at the MoMA opening: https://p.twimg.com/AmNmz-m... - Adriano

"Despite stylistic differences, each artist is connected by the common goal of depicting what Francis Bacon described as “the mystery of appearance within the mystery of making.”" - Adriano

If you liked the Silvio Dante character in The Sopranos, and the film Fargo, you will really enjoy this black comedy with a Norwegian accent. \\ "After he testifies against a Mafia boss, ex-gangster Frank Tagliano enters the witness protection program and asks to be sent to [Lillehammer, Norway (1994 Winter Olympics)]. Despite the peaceful surroundings, it's not long before Frank strays from the straight and narrow." \\ "The first season premiered on Norwegian NRK1 on 25 January 2012 with a record audience of 998,000 viewers, and premiered on the Netflix stream http://movies.netflix.com/Movie... in the United States, Latin America and Canada on February 6, 2012. It will air on BBC4 in the UK. A second season has already been commissioned." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Adriano

Van Zandt interviewed: http://youtu.be/2O6MoG7geJU - Adriano

This looks good, will have to check this out. - Adrian

"The series depicts two low-brow card players in Aix-en-Provence. The peasants idealize an old world culture, nostalgic even to the middle-aged artist when he painted from his family’s country estate in the 1890s. At the time, Cézanne was working alone, and his isolation reflects in the sparing surfaces and minimal compositions of the varying card scenes. Only the subtlest of changes differentiate one painting from the next: most notably, the cards themselves change as the games progress, while the faces and suggestively sluggish interactions do not." - Adriano

"The 6ft long artwork has become the most expensive British sculpture ever sold after being snapped up for £19.1million, more than three times the highest estimate. It easily surpassed the previous record, set by Damien Hirst’s The Golden Calf which sold for £10.3million in 2008." - Adriano

I saw the largest public Henry Moore collection just week ago in AGO - Ontario's art gallery in Toronto. Simply amazing... - Amira

Director and choreographer: Pina Bausch (also playing the first figure). This important piece was featured in the recent Wim Wenders' film "Pina." \\ Cast: Malou Airaudo, Domenique Mercy, Jan Minarik, Nazareth Panadero, Jean Laurent Sasportes. \\ "Her parents owned a café attached to a small hotel. The little girl learned to amuse herself sitting quietly under the café tables watching the customers or entertaining them with impromptu dances. Early on her parents sent Pina to ballet classes, where, she recalled in an interview, "I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving I could feel."" see Choreographer whose seminal work gave an unsettling view of the human condition, http://www.independent.co.uk/news... - Adriano

"The drawings of butterflies done by Vladimir Nabokov were intended for “family use.” He made these on title pages of various editions of his works as a gift to his wife and son and sometimes to other relatives. In Brian Boyd’s words, “in these highly personal and affectionately playful drawings the scientific accuracy Nabokov needed in thousands of illustrations of the specimens he studied under the microscope was no longer relevant, and his imagination could take flight. In the butterflies Nabokov devised and labeled for Vera he mingles fact and fancy even more sportively than in his fiction.” None of these drawings portray real butterflies, both the images and the names he assigns to them are his invention." - Adriano

Love these! - Jenny H.

Beautiful ...!! - Sepi ⌘ سپی