If you want to know how the definition of “scandal” has changed with the decades, you couldn’t do much better than to see “Taking Venice,” Amei Wallach’s highly enjoyable and revealing documentary about a legendary uproar in the art world. The film chronicles what happened at the 1964 Venice Biennale — the exhibition of contemporary art, held every two years, that culminates in the awarding of an esteemed grand prize. At the time, the Biennale was considered to be a kind of art-world equivalent of the Olympic Games. Not just artists but the nations they represented were jockeying for cultural supremacy. In the ’50s and early ’60s, the grand prize often went to the French, but in 1964 the U.S. decided to mount a campaign of “cultural diplomacy” in the hopes that one of its own artists — Robert Rauschenberg — would win the Biennale.
Rauschenberg’s mixed-media paintings, known as “combines,...
Rauschenberg’s mixed-media paintings, known as “combines,...
- 5/31/2024
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Hello Dankness.First the chaos of Trump’s little era, then the grief of the pandemic, and now cinema is becoming indistinguishable from the internet. The newest work from Australian duo Soda Jerk devises an ultra-endurance meme sequence for these times. Hello Dankness, which screened at this year’s Berlinale Panorama, explores the madness of US politics in the age of social media—or, rather, the reeling feeling of it, revisiting the major news stories bridging the Trump and Biden administrations through over 550 pirated audio and visual clippings.Currently based in New York, Soda Jerk consists of siblings Dominique and Dan Angeloro; they are major artists in their home country, with serious institutional support and a burgeoning international reputation for experimental image-making from the frontlines of dystopia. The early incandescence of gallery works like After the Rainbow (2009)—a deeply affective reflection on stardom, loss of self and Judy Garland’s...
- 3/8/2023
- MUBI
The drama series "Genius", Season 2 "Picasso", stars Antonio Banderas ("Desperado") as the woman-chasing iconic painter, premiering the first of 7 episodes April 24, 2018:
"...the artistic career of 'Pablo Picasso' spanned more than 80 of his 91 years, much of it in his second home of France. His passionate nature and relentless creative drive were inextricably linked to his personal life, which included tumultuous marriages, numerous affairs and constantly shifting political and personal alliances.
"He lived most of his life in the vibrant Paris of the first half of the 20th century and crossed paths with writers and artists including 'Coco Chanel', 'Henri Matisse', 'Marc Chagall', 'Gertrude Stein', 'Georges Braque' and 'Jean Cocteau'..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Genius: Pablo Picasso"...
"...the artistic career of 'Pablo Picasso' spanned more than 80 of his 91 years, much of it in his second home of France. His passionate nature and relentless creative drive were inextricably linked to his personal life, which included tumultuous marriages, numerous affairs and constantly shifting political and personal alliances.
"He lived most of his life in the vibrant Paris of the first half of the 20th century and crossed paths with writers and artists including 'Coco Chanel', 'Henri Matisse', 'Marc Chagall', 'Gertrude Stein', 'Georges Braque' and 'Jean Cocteau'..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Genius: Pablo Picasso"...
- 4/12/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
As part of the National Geographic anthology period drama series "Genius", Sneak Peek new footage, plus images from "Genius: Pablo Picasso", starring Antonio Banderas ("Desperado") as the iconic painter, in a 7-episode season, premiering April 24, 2018:
"...the artistic career of 'Pablo Picasso' spanned more than 80 of his 91 years, much of it in his second home of France. His passionate nature and relentless creative drive were inextricably linked to his personal life, which included tumultuous marriages, numerous affairs and constantly shifting political and personal alliances.
"He lived most of his life in the vibrant Paris of the first half of the 20th century and crossed paths with writers and artists including 'Coco Chanel', 'Henri Matisse', 'Marc Chagall', 'Gertrude Stein', 'Georges Braque' and 'Jean Cocteau'..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Genius: Pablo Picasso"...
"...the artistic career of 'Pablo Picasso' spanned more than 80 of his 91 years, much of it in his second home of France. His passionate nature and relentless creative drive were inextricably linked to his personal life, which included tumultuous marriages, numerous affairs and constantly shifting political and personal alliances.
"He lived most of his life in the vibrant Paris of the first half of the 20th century and crossed paths with writers and artists including 'Coco Chanel', 'Henri Matisse', 'Marc Chagall', 'Gertrude Stein', 'Georges Braque' and 'Jean Cocteau'..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Genius: Pablo Picasso"...
- 4/9/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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