Category: Art

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     Blood Diamond and the Epic Death of Danny Archer Bernie Langs Caution: spoilers ahead!     In the fabulous comedy Shakespeare in Love, Queen Elizabeth boldly sets a wager to her obsequious courtiers: “Can a play show us the very truth and nature of love?” I’ve been wondering about a similar notion: Can a contemporary…

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    Television Series Review: Mr. Robot and Gomorrah  Bernie Langs Caution: spoilers ahead!   There is a widely-held notion that television is presently in the midst of a golden age and that the quality and diversity in programming has never been better for the medium. One might generally associate the phrase “golden age” with eras of…

  • For Your Consideration

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    By Jim Keller As we begin our fifth year of uncovering and examining the content that will eventually form the enigma that is the Academy Awards race, I thought it would be interesting to switch things up and break down my films of interest list by release date, festival appearance and production status. After all,…

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    Film and the Tyranny of the Repeating Day: Edge of Tomorrow and Groundhog Day By Bernie Langs “Carpe Diem” or “Seize the Day” is the banal, clichéd rallying war cry that commencement speakers send off the graduating classes of universities into the world. Yet once in the rhythm of the work day, we very quickly…

  • For Your Consideration – Ones to Watch, Vol. 3 Edition

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    By Jim Keller There’s a reason why I always conclude this three-part series by covering the Best Supporting Actor and Actress races: with the exception of the frontrunners, they are very unpredictable. Hence, I am going to shake things up a bit this year and change the discussion format. Instead of laying out each actor’s…

  • Tree of Codes and the Park Avenue Armory

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    By Paul Jeng The first exhibit I attended at the Park Avenue Armory was in the spring of 2012, Tom Sachs’s SPACE PROGRAM: MARS, an expansive, irreverent rendition of an imaginary expedition to Mars. From the beginning it was clear that the exhibit was designed with active audience engagement in mind. Visitors at the entrance…

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    J. M. W. Turner on film and Jan van Eyck in The Smithsonian Institution By Bernie Langs Lord Kenneth Clark, the eminent late art historian who often graces the pages of “Culture Corner”, felt that life’s meaning can best be found through the study of paintings, which later bled into his world historical view of…

  • Only Seven Days Left! Two Must-See Exhibitions in NYC!

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    By Natalia Ketaren September 7 sees the end of two wonderful exhibitions in NYC. The first exhibition I saw and will speak of, was the highly publicized China: Through the Looking Glass housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met). The second, equally enchanting and moving, was that of Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971…

  • Biography of an Amazing Artist

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    By Susan Russo Based on a personal story from his granddaughter and the website www.luisada.com Avigdor Renzo Luisada was born in Florence, Italy, in 1905, third son of a secular Jewish family. His father was a prominent doctor and his older brother became a cardiologist in the United States. Luisada’s grandfather was an Italian painter,…

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    Theater Review: “LOVE” performed by Cirque du Soleil at the Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 16, 2015 By Bernie Langs A Hofner bass guitar signed by all four Beatles displayed outside the “LOVE” theater at the Mirage Hotel (photo: B.L.) When I told a musician friend of mine that I would be in Las…