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The modern art form that was secretly funded by the CIA during the Cold War
The image of a straight-laced CIA agent hardly goes hand and hand with the rebellious, chain-smoking, avant-garde artist, but ...
Egon Schiele, Sawmill (1913). Courtesy of the Kallir Research Institute, New York The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) recently announced a major gift of more than 130 works of Austrian ...
“Franz is a writer who doesn’t like to talk,” says Franz Kafka’s agent in this playful and oddly endearing biopic of the enigmatic Czech author, who died in 1924 aged just 40. Kafka’s output was slim ...
Swirling events from across the Czech writer's life into a prismatic study of his creative frustration and uncontrolled legacy, this ambitious film makes a show of shunning convention but has nothing ...
Premiering at TIFF, the 'Green Border' director's non-chronological feature views the Czech-German-Jewish writer's life as if through a crystal prism. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic In ...
I’ve long been baffled why fashion documentaries don’t get more respect. Films like Unzipped, Valentino: The Last Emperor, Dior and I, The September Issue, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel and ...
Abstract Expressionism is often thought of as the story of white men flinging paint in New York City, the very definition of postwar American art. But where are the Native Modernists? If the Tecolote ...
Agnieszka Holland’s Franz Kafka biopic “Franz,” which will have its world premiere in Toronto Film Festival’s Special Presentation section, has debuted its trailer. In an exclusive interview with ...
Star Idan Weiss shared during a trailer premiere event at the Karlovy Vary festival that Kafka "was in my body for a long time," while executive producer Mike Downey highlighted Kafka's "rock star ...
The question imposes itself irresistibly: Why are the same names always mentioned—Dürer, Grünewald—and not Cranach, Altdorfer, Stefan Lochner, Holbein? Why always Fra Angelico and not Filippo Lippi?
In his show notes Marc Jacobs riffed about beauty, calling it, “a quality or combination of qualities that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is often associated with properties such as harmony ...
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