The latest adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel offers a smart update, while retaining its poignant story of a vampire questioning life, mortality and his own power. Read More

annals-of-inquiry How the War in Ukraine Might End In recent years, a small group of scholars has focussed on war-termination theory. They see reason to fear the possible outcomes in Ukraine. Read More

When McKinsey Comes to Town authors Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe say the consulting firm helped companies boost tobacco and opioid sales — while at the same time working for the FDA. Read More

Local architects Zeller & Moye used an abandoned lot in Mexico City to create a multifamily property called La Ribera with eight townhouses organised around a lush courtyard. The project is named after the neighbourhood in which it is located, a part of Mexico City that the architects describe as "undervalued", despite its proximity to. The post Zeller & Moye create earthquake-resistant La Ribera housing block in Mexico City appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

New York, NY, United States. The post Morris Adjmi Architects Rehabilitate the 520 West 20th Warehouse with Dramatic Hovering Addition appeared first on Journal. Read More

After much speculation over the release date of Antoine Fuqua’s Will Smith-starring Emancipation, Apple TV+ is making something of an awards season play and has dated the film for December 2 in theaters and December 9 on the streaming service. By point of comparison, last year’s Best Picture-winning Coda was released day-and-date in theaters and on the service. From the press release: Apple Original Films’ “Emancipation,” directed and executive produced by Antoine Fuqua (“Training Day,” “The Equalizer”) and starring and produced by Will Smith (“King Richard,” “The Pursuit of Happyness,” “Ali”), will premiere in theaters on December 2, 2022, and […] The post Trailer Watch: Antoine Fuqua’s Will Smith-Starring Emancipation first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

The artist describes how an ocean swim led to this powerful environmental work, produced in conjunction with Artspace and Counter Editions, to celebrate 50 years of Greenpeace victories Read More

Dad and Daughter Dazzle Instagram With Their Joyful Dance Moves   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by D&F (@daughter_and_father_) For some, dancing is in their blood. Parents pass on their skills and the whole family is moving and grooving—and the results are delightful. The dancing dad-daughter duo D&F first shared their moves on Instagram in May 2020. Since then, they have […] READ: Read More

Dezeen Showroom: designer Konstantin Grcic aimed to bring an element of surprise to a familiar form with Bench and the Bench table, his latest designs for Italian brand Plank. Bench began with the concept of a plain wooden beam to sit on, but in the development process, Grcic alighted on the idea of plugging the seat. The post Bench collection by Konstantin Grcic for Plank appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Ikea's unyielding sameness is a stabilizing force in my life — but I wanted novelty anyway, at any cost. So I traveled thousands of miles to the Ikea Museum. Read More

In his poetry, Donne seduces and mocks; in his sermons and tracts, he ponders sickness and sin and death. He was aware of the dichotomy, describing one of his books, in a letter, as “written by Jack Donne, and not Dr. Donne.” The problem for biographers, from Walton to Rundell, is how these two phases or faces fit together. Rundell observes that Donne was born within sight of the cathedral where he would later preside—the old St. Paul’s, which burned down in 1666 and was replaced by Christopher Wren’s dome. But he was hardly destined to rise in the Church of England. The Donnes were a Catholic family, who kept the old faith at a time when Queen Elizabeth I was determined to make England a Protestant realm once and for all. Through his mother, the poet was related to Thomas More, the author of “Utopia,” who died as a martyr in 1535 for resisting Henry VIII’s break with Rome. Half a century later, being a Catholic was still a matter of life and death. In 1593, when Donne was twenty-one, his younger brother Henry was arrested for hiding a Jesuit priest in his rooms in London and died in jail of plague. (The priest was hanged, drawn, and... Read More

Vittorio Zunino Celotto | Getty Images The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Friday next year's Met Gala theme: a celebration of the works of the late German designer Karl Lagerfeld. The Gala, formally known as The Costume Institute Benefit, is an annual fundraiser scheduled for the first Monday in May — for next year, that means May 1. It is followed by the institute's annual spring exhibition, this year titled "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty," which will be on view from May 5 through July 16. Read More

“Goodness is a lot more interesting than it sounds.” Read More

Christina Quarles, Try n’ Pull tha Rains in on Me (2022), via Hauser & Wirth Hauser & Wirth presents its first solo exhibition with Christina Quarles this fall at its New York exhibition space, bringing together a body of new works that continue the artist’s own investigations into the human form, human identity, and their constructions amidst the art […] Read More

The 21-year-old singer struggled with depression while raising her younger siblings after her father's deportation. Now, she's making music for others like her — and redefining bilingual music in the process. Read More

Elizabeth McCracken promised her mom she'd never write about her. But this work of fiction strives to conjure her up in order to prevent her from "evanescing." Read More

Architecture studio BIG has completed six curved housing blocks that combine to form a spiral shape at the Sneglehusene development near Aarhus, Denmark. Containing 93 homes, the Sneglehusene housing for developer Taekker Group forms part of the Nye neighbourhood to the north of Aarhus and was created using a modular system developed by BIG and contractor CJ. The post BIG unveils spiral-shaped modular housing development in Aarhus appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

From a retail concept that subverts gendered design expectations to a 'naked' mixed-system housing structure, explore this month's list of readers’ favorites. The post Reader’s Choice: Top 10 Architecture Projects on Architizer in September 2022 appeared first on Journal. Read More

Queens of the Qing Dynasty, the second feature from Nova Scotia’s Ashley McKenzie, is a unique work of independently produced Canadian cinema. Both a stark about-face from the hardscrabble realism of her 2016 debut Werewolf—about a pair of strung-out young lovers living hand-to-mouth on the margins of Cape Breton—and a decisive break from the docufiction trends of art cinema at large, Queens is rigorously composed and austerely dramatized, an artful fable pitched somewhere between comedy and tragedy. Starring newcomer Sarah Walker as Star, a neurodivergent teen who develops a deep connection with her caregiver An (Ziyin Zheng, also making their […] The post Crafting a Life as a Filmmaker: Ashley McKenzie on Queens of the Qing Dynasty first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

The art world is doing its best to respond to the unusual and frightening times by moving our experience online, inspiring museums, art fair committees, and galleries alike to create high-res, navigable viewing rooms on their respective websites. Artists too, are using Instagram to post project-based studio updates, conversations, and collectivizing incentives, and galleries are making it a point to publicize these updates, creating a surprisingly refreshing, intimate intel-loop for art enthusiasts. Here at Artspace, we’ve put together a list of 6 artists who are catching our attention in the digital space right now. Shotz is a long-established Brooklyn artist whose sumptuous, sensory installations have made her a fixture in outdoor sculpture parks and museum exhibitions all over the world. Her works have been experiencing an uptick in posts and hashtags of late, and it’s probably because each beaded entryway, curved wire and twinkling, organic edifice reminds us of all the things we can’t do—engage with the beauty of the outdoors in person, explore strange surfaces with our fingertips, take Instagram photos in the wild. Shotz boxes with physics in ways unexpected, refreshing, and disorienting. She has had solo exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Escape Louis Vuitton in Tokyo. Read More

Bewitching Portraits Depict Enigmatic Female Figures With Animal Masks Switzerland-based artist Laura H. Rubin breathes life into surreal ideas in her digital paintings. She uses her masterful skills to render ethereal female figures in hyperrealistic detail, making dreamlike scenes not only visible but believable to the viewer. Some of her latest portraits feature graceful women adorned with headwear inspired by different animals. United by […] READ: Read More

Dezeen Showroom: Spanish brand Natucer has created a wall tile range called Fika, which is designed for contemporary and relaxed interiors. Named after the Swedish coffee break tradition, Fika is a range of white body ceramic tiles with a variegated look that draws on the artisanal techniques of the past. The tiles have a matt. The post Fika wall tiles by Natucer appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Ever wonder what Nina Totenberg would look like dunking a basketball in space? An Edith Piaf Tiny Desk concert? With the AI-generated art tool now released to the public, you no longer have to. Read More

The author reads his story from the October 10, 2022, issue of the magazine. Read More

“My mother mocked the Queen’s accent: “Efrika.” When had the Queen talked about Africa?” Read More

Renee Cox, Springs WinterWonderland (2021), Image courtesy of Superposition Gallery On view at Eastville Museum (Eastville Community Historical Society) is a group exhibition titled “Resilience,” honoring the Eastville Museum in Sag Harbor—an institution founded in the 1980s to preserve the history of Black and Indigenous people in the community. Curated by Storm Ascher, the exhibit brings […] Read More

With the Cardinal Divas, Princess Isis Lang wanted a safe space for other Black students at the LA school. She didn’t expect so many people to be mad about it. Read More

Your story “Take Half, Leave Half” is about a long-lasting friendship between two boys—and then young men—from Montana, who grow up together but in different family circumstances. How did these characters come to you? In lightly populated areas, social patterns seem clearer and more indelible than in places where more opportunities for transformation are at hand. Friendships begun in grade school commonly last lifetimes. Disrepute can linger unfairly or uncharitably with similar durability. Read More

On the 7th episode of HBO's Game of Thrones spin-off, guests at a funeral express their grief through sex and violence. Fantasy royals: they're just like us! Read More

Niall McLaughlin Architects referenced the brick and timber architecture of the University of Cambridge's historic Magdalene College in the design of its Stirling Prize-shortlisted New Library. London-based Niall McLaughlin Architects won the project via an invited competition in 2014 to provide new facilities alongside the college's Grade I listed Pepys Library. With the brief calling. The post Gables and chimneys inform Magdalene College library by Niall McLaughlin Architects appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

The Genesis House is an urban oasis uniquely positioned on NY’s Meatpacking waterfront to offer visitors nourishment and inspiration. The Korean automotive brand’s 46,800 sq ft destination is not a retail showroom, but a longterm investment in a cultural conversation with NY about traditions and modernity in a mobile age. A dramatic copper curtain spanning the entire ground floor facade draws viewers in with its shimmering contours. Once inside, its first floor presents a living room of Genesis’ latest automotive designs in the brand’s signature materials–copper, steel, concrete, oak, reflection. © Suh Architects © Suh Architects A flipdot wall hums the story of mobility while four streamlined machines and life-sized doors invite inspection. A customized copper and steel concierge desk and elevator guide visitors above and below. A Korean roofscape based upon the last emporer’s family residence hovers above the entire second floor. Outliningits traditional contours in a single gesture, this vast space is organized as a village of distinct, intimate zones: thecelebrated Onjium restaurant, a Korean tea pavilion, art library, gift shop and individual seating areas.Each space is discovered at one’s leisure against the panoramic views of the HighLine and Hudson River. Read More

Filmmaker is pleased to share the trailer debut of Cinque Northern’s short film Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From A Plantation Prison, distributed by MTV Documentary Films. The documentary follows playwright Liza Jessie Peterson’s journey to bring her one-woman show The Peculiar Patriot to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Peterson’s interest in this prison, specifically, comes from its history as a pre-Civil War plantation (originally named “Angola” after the African country that many of its enslaved inhabitants were violently taken from) before it was bought by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections in 1901. It is […] The post Trailer Debut: Cinque Northern’s Angola, Do You Hear Us? Voices From A Plantation Prison first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

One of the pleasures of collecting is knowing that, in buying a beautiful work, you can also support a great cause. Sometimes this is done by charity auctions or charitable editions, but in other instances it's simply carried out by choosing pieces by an artist who stands up for something you believe in too. From gender equality to racial politics, the tragedy of the AIDS crisis or the societal effects of the drugs trade, these seven works all express strong personal and political positions. Hang these in your place, and you’ll be making a stand alongside the artist. Read More

Learn How Marlon Brando and Sacheen Littlefeather Made History at the 1973 Oscars In 1973, riding high off the success of The Godfather, actor Marlon Brando used his platform to give a voice to Native Americans. Not only did he refuse the Academy Award for Best Actor, which he won for his role as Don Vito Corleone, but he sent Sacheen Littlefeather to the ceremony in his place. In […] READ: Read More

This week on Dezeen, King Charles III revealed his royal monogram, which will replace the cypher of Queen Elizabeth II across the UK's official buildings and post boxes. Designed by the College of Arms, the monogram features the letters C and R to represent the initial of the monarch's first name and the Latin word. The post This week the royal cypher of King Charles III was unveiled appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

In 1958, when the late Filipino American artist Carlos Villa was studying at the California School of Fine Arts, he asked one of his teachers where he could learn about other Filipino art. "His teacher said to him there isn't any," said Mark Johnson, co-curator of Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision, a retrospective of Villa's work at the Asian Art Museumof San Francisco. Read More

By Hands Now Known, by Margaret A. Burnham (Norton) . This history of Jim Crow explores “slavery’s afterlife in law” from the nineteen-twenties to the sixties through the fates of Black Americans whose stories “were not meant to leave the South.” Some were “abducted from their homes, churches, fields, and other workplaces,” others murdered after flouting bus segregation. Burnham illuminates a continuum of white supremacy, dating back to slavery, that depended on the blurring of “formal and mob law” and on an often complicit federal government. “Law needed terror, and terror needed law,” she writes. She also examines Black Americans’ long-standing “practices of dissent and resistance” and describes reparations as an ethical imperative. The Portraitist, by Steven Nadler (Chicago) . Little is known about the Dutch painter Frans Hals: no letters or diaries survive, and the only contemporary documents are unrevealing. But Nadler manages to construct a satisfying quasi-biography by using the milieu of seventeenth-century Haarlem. The city, Protestant and republican, had neither church nor monarchy to commission art, so artists relied on the patronage of private citizens—an advantage for Hals, who excelled at capturing the spirit of locals. His rough brushwork lent an air of improvisation to his boisterous depictions of soldiers, musicians, and tavern-goers. Though Hals has long been overshadowed by his contemporary Rembrandt, Nadler demonstrates why his peers held him to be “the modern painter par excellence.” Read More

“Restraint is sometimes the act of watching what disturbs another’s eye.” Read More

Marco Pariani, ABANDONED TREE (2022), via Cheim & Read This month, Cheim & Read presents Marco Pariani: Trees and Traditions, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by the Brooklyn-based, Italian-born artist that marks his second show with the gallery. Citing Christmas trees and decorations as a secondhand reference point here, the show casts an ironic eye on the […] Read More

Amid today’s stan culture, there’s too often a lack of curiosity when it comes to understanding the context around a pop culture phenomenon. Some artists are “canceled” without having the full information around their alleged offense, while others are propped up with little regard for their offenses. It wasn’t much different years ago. For Sinéad O’Connor, the singer-songwriter who became an icon in the early ’90s, it was a relentless pile-on by media, celebrities and “fans” alike after she had the audacity to criticize the Catholic church and Pope John Paul II on live television. Read More

“Grant had been through this kind of thing with Rufus before, climbing things, sliding down things, and getting a truck onto two wheels while exiting a Tulsa off-ramp.” Read More

A 12 year-old boy learns the truth about his missing mother and his dystopian society in "Our Missing Hearts." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Celeste Ng about her new novel. Read More

After Foster + Partners completed a pair of skyscrapers connected by a suspension bridge, Dezeen rounds up a dozen buildings that feature various types of skybridges. Bridge structures that span buildings high up in mid-air are now a common trick for architects to show off in skyscraper projects. Among the earliest examples is the famous. The post Twelve dramatic skybridges that push the limits of engineering appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

A simple, clear wooden house on the hillside at the calm edge of the owl forest. The outskirts of the residential area of the village end here and this new object shapes this transition between settlement and nature.A staircase from the carport leads to the entrance of the house on the hillside floor. © Kurt Hoerbst There is space for a small flat for alternative use. Life and human interaction take place on the living level on the upper floor. The topography of the property is used in a smart way so that one can reach the garden even with the ground from the upper floor as well. Read More

This week, Netflix’s Blonde and A24’s God’s Creatures head to streaming and theaters, respectively. The digitally-shot Blonde is a highly stylized look at the life of Marilyn Monroe, shifting aspect ratios and alternating between color and monochrome while employing extreme wide angle lenses, body cam mounts, infrared and more to expressionistically convey Monroe’s perspective. God’s Creatures is the antithesis—austere and somber, captured on 35mm, with an observational point of view distanced from the main characters, a mother in a small Irish fishing village whose life crumbles after providing a false alibi for her son. The films do share one thing in common—cinematographer […] The post Chayse Irvin on Shooting Blonde in Digital Black and White and God’s Creatures in 35mm Color first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine. Read More

In 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement, a group of women sought to highlight sexual abuse in the art world. Rather than coin a new slogan, the group reached back forty years, to adapt a line created by the American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer that had never truly fallen out of style. The group called itself #NotSurprised, after one of the best-known entries in Holzer’s best-known work, her aphoristic one-liner text series, Truisms, which reads ‘Abuse of power comes as no surprise’. You might be forgiven for thinking that the artworld slogans of the late 1970s, would have lost their potency four decades after their initial publication. However, Holzer’s diamond-hard prose has shown the same sort of staying power as a Renaissance masterpiece. Read More

Sharpen Your Drawing Skills in ‘Inktober’ With a Bundle of Online Illustration Classes We're now into October, which for some people means ordering a pumpkin spice latte or picking the perfect Halloween costume. But for creatives, it can only mean one thing—Inktober. If you aren't familiar with Inktober, this annual event invites people worldwide to pick up a pen or pencil and start drawing. To celebrate the event, […] READ: Read More

Dezeen Showroom: a collection of handmade rugs made from silk and virgin wool are among 12 new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. Sistine rug collection by Armadillo Australian brand Armadillo has launched a new rug collection called Sistine comprising rugs in three neutral shades. They come in three sizes and all share a flecked finish due to. The post Sistine rugs by Armadillo among 12 new products on Dezeen Showroom appeared first on Dezeen. Read More

Jim Metzner has traveled far and wide to record sounds of the world and share them with listeners. The Library of Congress will preserve thousands of tapes and other items dating back to the 1970s. Read More

“Male viewers tend to see the painting in sexualized terms, while the humor is almost always picked up on by female viewers.” Read More