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Review of Ismail Kadare’s ‘A Dictator Calls’, translated by John Hodgson and longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
6 months, 1 week ago

Review of Ismail Kadare’s ‘A Dictator Calls’, translated by John Hodgson and longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024

The Hindu  

For the uninitiated, a tyrant first learns to master storytelling. But it’s one of the major themes of the 2024 International Booker Prize-longlisted novel, A Dictator Calls: The Mystery of the Stalin-Pasternak Telephone Call. Written by Ismail Kadare, the inaugural winner of the Man Booker International Prize, and exquisitely translated from the Albanian by his long-time collaborator John Hodgson, A …

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Sargent and Fashion review: Tate Britain puts art on the runway in this sensuous show
10 months ago

Sargent and Fashion review: Tate Britain puts art on the runway in this sensuous show

The Independent  

In the penultimate room of Sargent and Fashion at Tate Britain, there’s a small painting that, to me, encapsulates the entire show. Travelling to London from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, this dazzling exhibition celebrates the great portrait painter John Singer Sargent’s ability not only to paint his sitters, but to style them too. Sargent’s role as stylist …

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Review: The Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' 2023 biennial
1 year, 2 months ago

Review: The Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' 2023 biennial

LA Times  

In “Acts of Living,” the just-opened sixth installment of “Made in L.A.,” the UCLA Hammer Museum’s always hotly anticipated biennial survey of new art in the region, there’s a woman embedded inside a gallery wall. This “Made in L.A.” emphasizes the handmade — objects that used to just be called paintings and sculptures, which partly represent the artists’ presence. The …

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After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art review – A show with enough great works to be worthwhile
1 year, 9 months ago

After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art review – A show with enough great works to be worthwhile

The Independent  

Apparently Impressionism evolved in a number of directions, each of which had a massive impact on art in the 20th century. The three artists who the exhibition defines as the leaders of this new post-impressionist art – Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne – are allocated five works each, and they don’t disappoint. open image in gallery Vision of the Sermon, …

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Review: Art meets food at Goa’s HOSA
2 years ago

Review: Art meets food at Goa’s HOSA

Live Mint  

It is easily Goa’s favourite fish. Goa’s newest restaurant—“hosa” means new in Kannada—comes from EHV International, the people behind Indian Accent, Comorin and the recently launched Koloman. “We envision it to be a chilled out, casual and not pretentious place, serving slightly elevated south Indian food.” At first glance, HOSA does look fancy, like it has walked out of a …

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Review: Art meets food at Goa’s HOSA
2 years ago

Review: Art meets food at Goa’s HOSA

Live Mint  

It is easily Goa’s favourite fish. Goa’s newest restaurant—“hosa” means new in Kannada—comes from EHV International, the people behind Indian Accent, Comorin and the recently launched Koloman. “We envision it to be a chilled out, casual and not pretentious place, serving slightly elevated south Indian food.” At first glance, HOSA does look fancy, like it has walked out of a …

Food Goa Indian Restaurant Indian Accent Sweet Fish
Review: Women take center stage as the curtain rises on a San Diego art museum
2 years, 8 months ago

Review: Women take center stage as the curtain rises on a San Diego art museum

LA Times  

Niki de Saint Phalle’s “Madame, or Green Nana With Black Bag” with other scupltures in the Strauss West Gallery, part of the newly remodeled Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla. Niki de Saint Phalle, “Grand Tir — Sceance de la Galerie J,” 1961, mixed media Two dozen shooting sessions were publicly performed in Europe and the United …

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Close encounters with daily life
2 years, 11 months ago

Close encounters with daily life

China Daily  

Liu Maonian's one-man show in Beijing, An Encounter With Liu Maonian, displays more than 100 oil paintings, watercolors and mixed-media works, which review his creations over the past decade. Liu's one-man show in Beijing, Nian Nian You Yu, displays more than 100 oil paintings, watercolors and mixed-media works, which review his creations over the past decade. Liu says hopefully his …

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Close encounters with daily life
2 years, 11 months ago

Close encounters with daily life

China Daily  

Liu Maonian's one-man show in Beijing, An Encounter With Liu Maonian, displays more than 100 oil paintings, watercolors and mixed-media works, which review his creations over the past decade. Liu's one-man show in Beijing, Nian Nian You Yu, displays more than 100 oil paintings, watercolors and mixed-media works, which review his creations over the past decade. Liu says hopefully his …

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Leonardo review: You can imagine art history A-Level students being shown this while their teacher googles antiques
3 years, 8 months ago

Leonardo review: You can imagine art history A-Level students being shown this while their teacher googles antiques

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Rather than human drama, the script is structured around works of …

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Review: ‘The Truffle Hunters’ and the fine art of documentary filmmaking
3 years, 9 months ago

Review: ‘The Truffle Hunters’ and the fine art of documentary filmmaking

LA Times  

The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pair previously collaborated on Dweck’s 2018 film “The Last Race,” a tribute to Long Island’s last stock car race track, which becomes an almost abstract cinematic exploration of rumbling diesel engines and exhaust fumes. On the surface, it would seem that “The Truffle Hunters” couldn’t be …

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Review: ‘Made You Look: A True Story about Fake Art,’ a fascinating $80 million con
3 years, 10 months ago

Review: ‘Made You Look: A True Story about Fake Art,’ a fascinating $80 million con

LA Times  

In 1974’s “F for Fake,” the freewheeling Orson Welles documentary that used the exploits of noted art forger Elmyr de Hory as its thematic jumping-off point, the defiant de Hory asks, “Do you think I should confess? Committing masterpieces?” That mindset proves especially persuasive in the new Netflix documentary “Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art,” a fascinating …

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