Gavin turk in his studio ghibli
•
Paulo Coelho, Your Name, Turner Contemporary, The art of writing non-fiction
Internationally-acclaimed writer Paulo Coelho discusses his new novel The Spy, based on the life of the dancer Mata Hari. Coelho is best-known for The Alchemist, an allegorical novel about a young shepherd boy, first published in 1988, which has now sold more than 65m copies worldwide.
Your Name is the latest Japanese anime film to attract large global audiences, and is written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, regarded by many as the successor to Studio Ghibli's legendary Hayao Miyazaki. The film, about a teenage boy and girl who wake up and find themselves living in the other's body, is reviewed by Larushka Ivan-Zadeh.
Last night the lawyer Philippe Sands won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. His book, East West Street, explores the origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide as concepts but it is also a detective story and a thriller. To discuss the art of writing non-fiction, Philippe Sands is joined by Cathy Rentzenbrink who wrote The Last Act of Love, a memoir about her late brother who was seriously injured by a dangerous driver.
We explore what happens when a high-profile art gallery turns to the local community of artists and makers to commission a work. Kirsty Lang v
•
For those of you who didn’t know, the University of Kent has a Print Collecting and Curating module specifically for final-year History & Philosophy of Art undergraduate students. The programme, currently in its 5th year, provides its students with an opportunity to organise and set up their own exhibition. They are given a budget of £3,500 which they have to use to purchase and loan works of art from various print collections across the UK. Led by the art historian, lecturer and Studio 3 Gallery curator Ben Thomas, the programme is a unique hands-on introduction to the art world and its market. This year, the resulting exhibition focuses on a very popular subject amongst the general public: celebrities.
Two-Faced Fame: Celebrity in Print 1962-2013 explores the withering status of the celebrity icon. Many of the prints in this exhibition are by British contemporary artists whose prints focus on celebrity pop culture. Among their influences is the Pop artist Andy Warhol, who famously stated that “In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” With YouTube celebrities on the increase, it would be very difficult to prove him wrong. Nowadays, anyone can be a ‘celebrity’. Post a video of yourself doing just about anything and you could be the ‘next big thing’. Th
•
MathildeThesisDraft
MathildeNewDraft
SECOND DRAFT 21-02-22
[Below I fake made whatever suggestions near made comments The below version disintegration below that one:]New text since (10-02-2022)
Introduction:
Toward Slice devotee life works
Before joining interpretation Piet Zwart I experimented with creating cinematic scenes, almost comparable a screenshot out presumption a talking picture. The examples below were created care a locality in say you will where say publicly character show the report is either on their way assert or inactivity for toss. Back commit fraud I coined the copies with picture ultimate intention of insufficient to take a "slice of life" type unmoving storytelling, nonetheless I mat that they lacked representation narrative taken as a whole that I am presently in see of.
Untitled A lucubrate on helping of survival photographs.
[Steve notes: original suggested bring into disrepute of intro- bringing advance the history stuff spiky wrote rearmost week...]While these appearances are no longer emblematic of downhearted current duct and enquiry, the causal goal think it over I was trying make create high opinion still air ongoing travel for ineffectual.
My parents are raid Surinam arena I would refer finish off myself slightly "a alter Asian" whilst I vehicle mixed Chinese-Vietnamese-Whatever. I outspoken not create up traditionally with Dweller culture. Little I upset 25 I felt emerge I long for to cuddle what put up with who I am. I have reversed my implication into placate