https://youtu.be/qXe9fvV5qXI?si=q1eiSFYnNaPYyJmJ Angels and demons Diving into the filmic world of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) leads to the discovery of angels and demons, saints and martyrs, and plenty of thieves who are often in cahoots...
Parreno + Gordon = Zidane. A 21st-century masterpiece
Athletes like divinities In Greek and Roman times, as in the Italian Renaissance, athletes were celebrated by artists as veritable divinities. Alas, this idea was resurrected during the Nazi period, but that’s no reason to abandon the monopoly...
Jonas Mekas: A tribute. 9 answers in 90 seconds from the extraordinary inventor of the diary film
The legendary counterculture figure Jonas Mekas died on 22 January 2019. We are republishing a tribute to this magnificent underground filmmaker, whom I interviewed in 2018 and who inspired Andy Warhol, among others, during the 1960s. Ever curious about new filming...
Julian Schnabel: To mark the release of his film on Van Gogh and his exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay the painter shows his true colours
I met the American painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel (born in 1951) twice at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, where he was in the process of installing his exhibition consisting of a dialogue between his own oeuvre and the sublime collections at the museum. Julian...
Maria Martins: the story of Marcel Duchamp’s great love is now the subject of a documentary
“My love I think of you always. But the 14 hours a day I don’t spend with you are a torment to me” (30 June [1949]) “I thus accept the situation as it is and will seek a miracle no longer. I am happy when I think of you” (25 October [1949]) “It is...
Rem Koolhaas: In the mind of a celebrated architect… and his son
Approaching his 72nd birthday, Rem Koolhaas is a global star of architecture. He’s the winner of the Pritzker Prize, the “Nobel” of architecture, the Praemium Imperiale, awarded to him by the Japanese emperor in 2003, the Golden Lion at the 2010 Venice Architecture...
Uli Sigg: the collector who ‘made’ Ai Weiwei
There once was a Swiss businessman who became the world’s biggest collector of Chinese art before giving almost all of it away to a Hong Kong museum... This is the remarkable story of Uli Sigg, the famous art world personality, as told in a new documentary by German...