Targets recur through Rashid Johnson’s rotunda-filling Guggenheim Museum retrospective, an insightful show that certainly hits the mark. The first can be seen outside the museum: a large steel sculpture called Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos (2008), its title a reference to a Public Enemy song of the same name. Inside, there are paintings in which crosshairs are singed into oak floorboards, and there’s a film in which a target appears on a beach, crudely drawn into the sand as dancers enact yoga positions all around it. There are so many targets that, at a certain point, it can…
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There’s an art to the perfect movie soundtrack single. It’s gotta be catchy, it’s gotta be thematically appropriate, and it’s gotta be something the people will remember long after the release of the movie it was written for. This trend goes in and out of fashion. It was popular in the 1970s and ’80s when radio play was just as important as box office numbers, and has had a bit of a resurgence in recent years (even the Avatar movies have had original songs that play over the credits).Some original soundtrack songs are so synonymous with their movies it would…
Kim Yun Shin’s carefully carved wood and stone sculptures don’t look like they were made by someone using a chainsaw. It’s an unusual tool for a 90-year-old artist, but it helps that that Kim started using it in 1984 and that she has the energy of someone much younger. The Korean artist spends hours making her art: monochrome lithographs composed of intersecting shapes; paintings made of hundreds of lines; sculptures that take the form of hand-carved pieces of wood and stone. “When inspiration strikes, I immerse myself completely, picking up the chainsaw and finishing the piece in a single day,”…
Perrotin will now represent the foundation of American artist Nancy Graves. The gallery will present a solo show of Graves’s painting at Perrotin New York, which will run from April 23rd to May 31st. Having risen to prominence in New York in the late 1960s, Graves is best known for her multidisciplinary work inspired by archaeology, natural phenomena, and anthropological studies. The exhibition at Perrotin New York will feature a selection of Graves’s rarely exhibited work from the 1970s and ’80s. The show will be organized chronologically, presenting a selection of paintings, sculptures, and archival materials. “Graves’s abstract paintings, created…
In the new The Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer, if you look closely at the scene where Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s Thing lifts a car over his head, you will see there are stacks of comic books in the foreground. This is a great deep cut Easter egg, because back in the Silver Age, when the Fantastic Four were first created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. In their Fantastic Four comics, the FF were celebrities, and the subjects of their very own comics. (Sometimes, the characters would even complain about how Stan and Jack’s comics portrayed them.) It was all very meta, and very ahead…
One of the most popular villains in Star Wars history will finally headline his own television series.Lucasfilm announced at Star Wars Celebration that Darth Maul will be the subject of their next animated series on Disney+. According to StarWars.com, the show — officially titled Maul: Shadow Lord — is “set after the events of the final season of The Clone Wars, [when] Maul rises again to lead the underworld factions” and “plots to rebuild his criminal syndicate on a planet untouched by the Empire.”Maul will be played by Sam Witwer, who voiced Maul during his appearances on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, as well as in his brief live-action…
One of the great joys when watching a Ryan Coogler project is seeing how he’ll remix seemingly unrelated stories, themes, and genres into a wholly original creation. Proximity Media, the production company he formed with his wife Zinzi and friend Sev, helps bring audiences closer to often overlooked subjects. In that way, Coogler is like a sommelier, as he and his team take the neglected histories and stories they’re passionate about getting visibility and pair them with a genre. It’s always exciting to see what he puts together in conversation, and “Sinners,” his period supernatural horror gangster film, is his…
In G20, global diplomacy takes a backseat to chaos when terrorists crash the world’s most powerful summit—and only one person can stop them: the President of the United States, played by none other than Viola Davis. Yes, a woman finally becomes the U.S. President… but only in the movies. Classic Hollywood—progressive in fiction, hesitant in reality. Davis plays President Danielle Sutton, a strong, strategic, and no-nonsense leader who quickly becomes the target—and the resistance—when the summit is overtaken by an international terrorist faction. She’s not just sitting behind a desk giving orders; she’s taking down enemies with her own two…
It’s official: Ryan Gosling is headed to the galaxy far, far away.At Star Wars Celebration in Japan this week, Gosling and director Shawn Levy took the stage to officially announce their upcoming Star Wars film, just the second that will (hopefully) hit theaters in the last eight years.The film will be called Star Wars: Starfighter. A post on the news on StarWars.com states that the film is “set approximately five years after the events of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” and that “Gosling will play a brand-new character teased by the actor’s appearance on stage [at Star Wars Celebration].”READ MORE: Every Star Wars Film Ranked From…
The following post contains SPOILERS for Sinners. If you’re wondering on a basic information level if Sinners has a post-credits scene: Yes, it actually has two. There’s one after the first batch of credits and one at the very end of the film. You’re welcome.It looks like Ryan Coogler is done making Marvel movies, at least for a while. His first post-Marvel project, Sinners, is far from the sort of film the studio would produce; a vampire tale that also mixes in social commentary and music — so much music, in fact, that it arguably qualifies as a full-blown musical. Sinners also contains more explicit sexual content than every single…
