Installation image of Jacob Kassay's 2010 silver paintings, acrylic and silver deposit on canvas. Through this simple process Kassay created uncannily engaging works that demand repeated viewing, as if the artist, as we put it in our book Vitamin P2, “is teaching us to look more closely, not just at his paintings but also at the historical lineage to which they belong.” In a short New Yorker profile in 2011 Kassay, then 27 years old, was described as “the art world’s newest star,” having found fame with his beautiful, silver-coated paintings, which Kassay created with the help of a Pennsylvanian chemical firm that specialized in electroplating, coating each canvas with a layer of metal just “atoms thick.” Jacob Kassay has experienced the kind of career problems most young artists can only dream of. Yet he seems to have reinvented himself with this new Belgian show The hot young artist fell from favour last year. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels Jacob Kassay’s comeback - as an architect Photo credit: Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam. Installation image from Jacob Kassay's HIJK exhibition.
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Mama’s daughter, Beneatha, aspires to attend medical school and become a doctor, a considerable challenge for an African-American woman at that time. Mama tells her daughter-in-law, Ruth, that she and her late husband shared the dream of owning a house, but that poverty and racism prevented them from fulfilling this dream during Big Walter’s lifetime. However, the members of the Younger family have conflicting ideas-conflicting dreams-regarding the best use for the money, which causes tension.Īt the beginning of the play Mama, Big Walter’s widow, expresses uncertainty regarding the best use for the money. The family eagerly awaits the arrival of the insurance check, which has the potential to make the family’s long deferred dreams into reality. Shortly before the play begins, the head of the Younger family, Big Walter, dies, leaving the family to inherit a $10,000 life insurance payment. The play centers on the Youngers, a working-class family that lives in Chicago’s South Side during the mid-twentieth century. A Raisin in the Sun examines the effects of racial prejudice on the fulfillment of an African-American family’s dreams. The information about this illustrious author goes on and on. Her favorite flower was Lily of the Valley. Agatha Christie's name has appeared every day for 53 years in every newspaper with a West End London theatre listing. Her last public appearance was in 1974, at the premier of the movie, Murder on the Orient Express. She traveled around the world in 1922, which would have been quite a feat back then. She once had three plays running simultaneously in London. Agatha could have been an excellent performer as a pianist, but she was much too shy to perform. Since there are so many, just a few will be mentioned here. He outlines many of those interesting facts. In his research, Curran found a plethora of information about Agatha. Her father did not want her to begin learning to read until age eight, but out of boredom, she taught herself to read by age five. It was an unusual way to be educated for the times. She was born in 1890 in England, where she was home schooled by her American father. What a daunting task to write about the most famous mystery writer, Agatha Christie. Shy, artistic Tera can't wait to attend a prestigious art school in France to prove to her famous artist father that she can make something of herself Shy, artistic Tera can't wait to attend a prestigious art school in France to prove to her famous artist father that she can make something of herself.īut Tera's hopes for the future explode when the police arrest her dad for an unspeakable crime. Enter for your chance to win! In this fast-paced novel, a young woman sets out to prove her father is innocent of a horrible crime-only to discover she may have been one of his victims.more E In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), author Melody Maysonet is giving away 10 copies of her critically acclaimed novel, A WORK OF ART. In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), author Melody Maysonet is giving away 10 copies of her critically acclaimed novel, A WORK OF ART. Ji Lin is a more talented student than her stepbrother, Shin, but because she is a girl, she isn't allowed to continue on to medical school with him. What is his relationship to the local people, specifically the young women he sleeps with? Do you think his impact on the community is ultimately positive or negative? What does this novel have to say about race and class more generally?ĥ. As a surgeon in Batu Gajah, William Acton straddles two worlds, that of the locals and that of the foreigners. Does Ren's desire to bring the finger to his former master's grave come from a place of love or fear? How is Ren's life shaped by the masters for whom he works, and how does he determine his own fate?Ĥ. How do their narrative styles and worldviews compare? Do you prefer one to the other? How would the novel have been different had it only been from one perspective?ģ. Discuss the structure of the novel, alternating between Ren's and Ji Lin's perspectives. The novel's title evokes the story of the weretiger, "a beast who, when he chooses, puts on a human skin and comes from the jungle into the village to prey on humans." What is the significance of that Malayan folktale in the novel? What does it represent for the different characters?Ģ. “Finding Batman” by Kevin Conroy and J.“The Beekeeper’s Due,” by Jimmy Stamp and Débora Santos, in Scott Snyder Presents: Tales from the Cloakroom (Cloakroom Comics).Retrouvez la liste complète des nominés ci-dessous :īest Short Story ( Meilleure histoire courte) On retrouve aussi parmi les nominé pour la meilleure nouvelle série deux séries dont on vous vous avait parlé dans notre sélection mensuelle de comics à tenir à l’oeil : Superman: Space Age et Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham. Certaines séries de comics déjà nominées l’année dernière reviennent pour le titre de la meilleure série existante, parmi lesquelles The Nice House on the Lake, The Department of Truth et Nightwing. Parmi les catégories les plus prisées, on remarquera la nomination pour le meilleur auteur de deux auteurs ayant déjà obtenu deux fois le sésame, à savoir Tom King et le double-tenant du titre James Tynion IV. Le comité des Eisner Awards a dévoilé les nominés pour les Eisner Awards 2023, qui récompenseront les meilleurs comics et créateurs de 2022. François Duhamel / Sygma via Getty Images Kirsten Dunst, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in "Interview With the Vampire," 1994. In a 2012 interview, she called Louis and Lestat the “first vampire same-sex parents.” And she later said that Claudia was likely unconsciously inspired by her daughter, while she and Stan were the inspirations for her vampire fathers. The domestic plotline and erotic dialogue made the novel ripe for queer readings, which Rice would confirm over the years. And he relates how the two took in a young child, Claudia, while living in New Orleans and proceeded to parent her over decades as she remained physically frozen in time. Louis tells a young reporter, whom he meets in a dark San Francisco bar, about immortal life alongside his sinister and seductive maker, Lestat. The novel centers on vampires Louis and Lestat. While the book failed to impress critics, it became an immediate commercial success, in large part because of its popularity among gay readers. North focuses her lens unremittingly on the world of women as they work in the shadows. She steers events unobtrusively, ridicules men, critiques male heroes and the poets who honor their exploits while completely overlooking the role of women in their successes, bemoans her position as a sister/wife of convenience to the king of the gods, and reserves her most scathing commentary for her relatives in the Greek pantheon. She observes the action from the vantage point of a goddess with a bird’s-eye view of Ithaca, zooms in to its more intimate spaces, and gives access to men only conversations and gatherings denied to women. She is fiercely determined to help Penelope without attracting the attention of the other gods. She is snarky, funny, sarcastic, and with a sharp tongue quick to spout contemporary idioms. North takes the unusual step of telling the story through the first-person voice of Hera, the queen of the gods. The narrative is replete with intrigue, spies, trickery, subterfuge, power plays, and betrayal. Ithaca by Claire North is the first book in a trilogy about Penelope’s Ithaca as she struggles to hold the kingdom together during Odysseus’ absence. "Eyes in the Dark", Defy the Dark, ed.Prince Charming (2018) (first published as Royals).Short story: "A Very Hexy Valentine's Day" (2013).As of 2021, Hawkins lives with her family in Auburn, Alabama. She began writing her first novel, Hex Hall, while working as an English teacher at Sparkman High School. Hawkins was born in Newport News, Virginia, moved to Dothan, Alabama at a young age, graduated from Houston Academy in 1998, and received a degree in English literature from Auburn University in 2002. She's an offbeat 16-year-old Floridian with mermaid-red hair a part-time job at a bootleg Walmart, and a perfect older sister who's nearly engaged to the Crown Prince of Scotland. Rachel Hawkins is the author of Hex Hall, a best-selling trilogy of young adult paranormal romance novels. Originally published as 'Royals,' New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins serves up a deliciously royal romance, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Huntley Fitzpatrick.Meet Daisy Winters. New York Times best-selling author Rachel Hawkins serves up a deliciously royal romance, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Huntley Fitzpatrick. Gaiman conceived an idea about the Antichrist being accidentally swapped in a hospital at birth, wrote 5,000 words and then put it on the back burner as his Sandman graphic novel series kicked off. Good Omens is about the coming apocalypse, written by fantasy visionaries and real-world friends Gaiman and Pratchett. I forget not everybody has bought three editions of Good Omens in their lifetime. But he changed his mind after receiving a posthumous letter from Pratchett that asked Gaiman to get it done without him and, well, here we are. When Pratchett died from Alzheimer's disease in 2015, Gaiman said he wouldn't do an adaptation without his good friend. Since at least 2000, various names have been attached to it, including Terry Gilliam, Johnny Depp and Robin Williams. Yes! Long in discussion between Gaiman and Pratchett, an adaptation has been in (perhaps aptly) production purgatory for a long time. If you have no idea what you just watched then let's talk about everything there is to know about Good Omens, shall we? Wait, Good Omens is actually getting made? |