BE@RBRICK DARTH VADER & DARTH MAUL PACK
2015-12-07Medicom Toy gets in on the new Star Wars film with two 100% (70 mm) Bearbricks in the likening of Darth Maul and Darth Vader in a translucent blue holographic iteration.
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PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT
2015-12-07Lisa Immordino Vreeland follows up her acclaimed debut “Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel” with PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT. A colorful character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it, Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists. Her colorful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo.
In theatres December 11th, 2015
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2015-12-07Ice and The Sky tells the story of a man who encountered his destiny, aged 23, in the Antarctic. The film will retrace his life‟s journey, from his first steps as a young glaciologist to the crowning moment of his glittering career – winning the Blue Planet Prize, the Nobel of environmental sciences. Ice and The Sky is an epic tale, in which science and adventure meet. “I have loved the great rivers of ice, the lagoons, the villages at the edge of the desert. I have loved the primordial forests of the Americas. But I believe what I have loved most is man and his ability to surpass himself in extreme climates. My name is Claude Lorius and I am 82 years old. I have devoted my life to the search for knowledge. It has been an extraordinary story of science and devoted men who have changed the course of the history of Mankind.”
In theatres December 11th, 2015
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2015-12-07This new exhibition presents two dozen photographs that span 20 years of Richardson’s career, from 1995 to 2015. The images range from his iconic fashion editorial work to personal series that may reveal an unapologetic look at the American cultural landscape. Also included are more spontaneous studio shots of his celebrity muses, captured in the sexy and raw esthetic that is specific to his famous Diary, a visual journal of the artist’s world. Richardson is a master of sprezzatura, a deliberately crafted carelessness, which he has employed in his work since first documenting the underground scene in the 90s, inspired by Larry Clark or Nan Goldin. Traditional photographic framing is replaced by Richardson’s signature dynamic spontaneity. The photographs bleed into the background of his studio, where one imagines a pageant of models, musicians, actors, and politicians. Amidst the sea of familiar strangers are portraits of Richardson’s father Bob, a famous fashion photographer himself, and his mother Annie, whose illness was documented by her son before her sad passing in 2012
Opposite – Amy Winehouse, 2007
Exhibition runs through to February 20th, 2016
Galerie Perrotin
17th Floor, 50 Connaught Road, Central
Hong Kong
China
ELINA BROTHERUS – CARPE FUCKING DIEM
2015-12-07Starting with the series Landscapes and Escapes (1998-99), by studying the relationship between the individual and his surroundings, Brotherus addresses the human longing to occupy a territory: “Though I am not necessarily present in every image, it is important that I present myself through the world around me and the world through me.” (Elina Brotherus, Helsinki, May 1999.) Now fifteen years later, the exhibition Carpe Fucking Diem picks up again on the theme of the human form in nature, though this time the afterefect is ambivalent. To begin with the title seems contradictory: the epicurean phrase that encourages living in the moment with the knowledge that the future is in doubt and that nothing lasts appears to be challenged. Videos and photographs compose the exhibition like musical variations. Three of the videos are from the series Tango Trousers (2015), produced by the Serlachius Art Museum in Mänttä, Finland. Brotherus sought out the accordionist Maria Kalaniemi to create new compositions for the short works, shot in Mänttä. Music is often important in Brotherus’ universe and this accompaniment was essential. In the exhibition, the photographs appear to prolong the videos and vice versa. Our gaze flows from one medium to the other, from a snippet of movement to a motionless instant.
Opposite – Giraffe and Owl, 2013
Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2016
gb agency
18, rue des 4 fils
75003 Paris
France
CONCUSSION
2015-12-07Will Smith stars in Concussion, a dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu’s emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
In theatres December 25th, 2015
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