While The Last of Us Season 2 finale has aired, the episode seems to have left viewers with more questions than answers. One such mystery has to do with Ariela Barer’s Mel, who is revealed to be pregnant in the sequel season. This has caused many Last of Us fans to wonder who the father of Mel’s baby is on the show, leading co-showrunner Craig Mazin to come out and address the query himself. Craig Mazin on who is the father of Mel’s baby in The Last of Us Season 2 In a recent discussion, Craig Mazin decided to play…
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Significant plot developments take place in The Last of Us Season 2 finale. This includes the deaths of several important characters, including Young Mazino’s Jesse, who is shot in the face by Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby. Introduced in Season 2, Jesse quickly became a fan favorite character. In a recent interview, series co-creators and co-showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann explained why Jesse needed to die in the Season 2 finale. Why Jesse was killed off in The Last of Us Season 2’s ending explained Mazin and Druckmann revealed in a press conference that Jesse’s death was always supposed to happen.…
The exciting KOHĀ and KOHĀ Moana happenings in Munich expanded the typical audience of Munich Jewellery Week Jewelry pieces present in both events were seen and experienced in very different ways by two audiences These alternative approaches to displaying jewelry brought the work to life in an energizing contrast to the expected—and conventional—modes of exhibition in Munich (Left) Leo wearing a necklace by (right) Sofia Tekela-Smith. Sofia Tekela-Smith, Untitled, 2025, necklace in mother-of-pearl, waxed thread, photo: Jamie Berry At the start of my Munich Jewellery Week adventure, I made my way to the Museum Fünf Kontinente (Museum Five Continents) to…
Why does art jewelry so often seem to be about the art and so little about the body or the wearer? I took this question with me to Munich Jewellery Week, on assignment from AJF. Across four days, I asked artists, designers, students, and gallerists to share their thoughts on it. Art jewelry as identityMartina Kocianova makes jewelry and she also experiments with and sculpts mycelium. Kocianova feels the question raises the idea of identity and identification with what we wear. She believes that art jewelry offers more freedom than fine jewelry to express oneself. And creating jewelry that is…
It was everything I imagined my first time would be like. Magical, filled with surprises, and deeply satisfying. I’m talking, of course, about my first time attending Munich Jewelry Week. What happens when a beautiful European city gets turned into a contemporary art jewelry box for a week? This city-wide event brings together artists, gallery owners, museum curators, collectors, students, and jewelry fans from all over the world. Here are the shows that stood out for me—it’s by no means a complete survey or best-of—and the jewelry I still wake up thinking about. SchmuckThe event that anchors everything is the…
The Cannes Film Festival unfolds in such a manner that there are often screening windows in which it’s impossible not to see something already assigned to another writer. With five people covering the fest, including the division of the Competition program among three writers (myself, Ben Kenigsberg, and Robert Daniels), it leads to seeing some important films that someone else is covering. There also come moments when a Cannes fest goer just wants to chase buzz, as happened after the premieres of two of the Cannes award winners in this feature or just needs to see new films by masters…
Writing about this assortment of films reminded me of two tried and true realities of film festing: no amount of pre-festival hype can compensate for the film itself (case in point: as high as I am on Julia Ducournau’s “Alpha,” it pains me to see it receive a muted response) and there will always be at least one or two films I’ll go into knowing nothing about and will walk away with it being one of favorite films of the year. Both things happened with this trio, and in that sense, Cannes has kept me on my toes as I’ve…
The first-ever film from Iraq to compete at Cannes, Hasan Hadi’s “The President’s Cake” premiered not in the festival’s main competition but rather in the Directors’ Fortnight section running parallel to it, where it stood out as one of this year’s most exciting discoveries, even before earning both the Audience Award from its section earlier this week and the prestigious Camera d’Or (awarded each year to a first feature film) at this weekend’s closing ceremony. Set in 1990s Iraq, as Saddam Hussein’s authoritarian regime held onto power throughout a brutal period of economic sanctions and aerial bombings that resulted in…
“Strategy without process is little more than a wish list.”— Robert Filek For many artists, marketing can often feel like a challenging endeavor. The constant juggle between social media algorithms, art fairs, gallery demands, and inconsistent online sales can be overwhelming. However, a strategy shines through as both accessible and scalable: marketing prints. This approach empowers you to take control of your marketing efforts. It instills confidence in your marketing skills, making the journey less daunting and more manageable. Art Prints Are Multi-faceted Assets Prints are more than a product; they are a powerful entry point for collectors and an…
Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” a Death and the Maiden–like drama about a group of Iranians confronting a man whom they suspect was their torturer in prison, won the Palme d’Or on Saturday night at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. The film marked a triumphant return to Cannes for the Iranian director, who had found ways to show work at the festival in recent years—“This Is Not a Film” in 2011 was said to have been smuggled to France on a thumb drive—but had not been able to attend until this year due to a travel ban from Iranian authorities. When…
