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Repository 148: Fifty Shades of Sam Taylor-Johnson
Five years ago I moved to a new town, knew no one, and struggled to make some meaningful friendships. Hence my reliance on the internet these days. At a farmers market one weekend, we bumped into the wife of my husband’s colleague. I didn’t know her well, but attempted a conversation as best I could. I asked what she had been up to, and she eagerly reported she was in a book club, and they were all reading a very…
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Repository 121: Dad and Deniro | Funeral for the Artist
Last week at Sundance the film, “Remembering the Artist Robert De Niro Sr.” premiered. While I do not know Robert Deniro junior or senior, my Dad knew senior, and I’ve spent many moments of my childhood with one of his paintings. Deniro’s painting in our house represented so much to me – it represented the gap between understanding my father and loving my father, it represented the gap between the father I saw standing before me and the father I…
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Repository 118: Henry Miller’s Amazing Bathroom | Think and Stink
Love him or hate him, this half-hour documentary of the writer Henry Miller, filmed at aged 81, is a gem. Firstly it proves one of the great mysteries of maledom – the bathroom is the place to think. It also illustrates the ultimate inspiration board – the walls of his bathroom are a stunning gallery of ideas. In this film from 1975, his bathroom reveals his fascination from Japanese films and Hieronymus Bosch, to Jung, Russian kings and Buddhas, along…
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Repository 90: Top 20 Movies about Art
While creativity remains illusive, there are countless books and resources that give glimpses into the unique mind of an artist, or the cadence of an art movement. Movies trump books for the time strapped, and are sometimes the most honest given the amount of first person interviews, discussion and revealing footage. The following is a list of films about art, contemporary art specifically, I have found over the years to be intriguing, inspiring and sometimes hilarious. I hope they inspire…
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