Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future. Because of that, much of the Swiss-German Bauhaus-associated painter’s work, which at its most distinctive defines its own category of abstraction, still exudes a vitality today. And he left behind not just those 9,000 pieces of art […]
“Rough incursions, which in many places convert historical landscapes into elementary ones, hide subtle changes but of the more aggressive kind.” – Ernst Jünger, At the Wall of Time The contradictory processes of de-mythologization and re-mythologization are not unknown to ancient civilizations, in which the old myths are sometimes destroyed (demythologization) and replaced with new […]
We asked NME users to vote for the best Radiohead tracks – and the results are in… 20. ‘Just’ (1995). The seventh track on ‘The Bends’, this song has become the closest thing Radiohead have to an ‘indie anthem’, despite being murdered by Mark Ronson in a 2008 cover. 19. ’15 Step’ (2007). An absolute […]
For a man who left Bromley Technical High School with just one ‘O’ level (in art), David Bowie ended up a remarkably well-read man. Bowie, who died aged 69 on January 10 2016, said that “when I’m relaxed what I do is read” and described a good week as one in which he pored through […]
Michael Cimino’s last feature, “The Sunchaser,” was released in 1996, twenty years before his death, on July 2nd, at the age of seventy-seven. His first film, “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot,” came out in 1974. In the seven features made during his all-too-brief directorial career, a certain kind of male character recurs. The Cimino Man is strong-willed and […]
Mr. Jagger, what kept you from completely going off the deep end? I mean we all did excessive things and I had a lot of unstable moments as I’m sure everyone does in their life. Maybe it helped me that I had a very centered upbringing. So your parents basically. Yeah, I think so. When […]
Jean-Luc Godard had a problem with endings. His early films often finish with a throwaway closure, a death, not quite real, distantly presented. His films are all middle, yet a sense of ending imbues them. For Godard, even love itself is something that is always winding down and his lover, his wife, the muse of […]
Abbas Kiarostami is a familiar name to many people around the world. Since countless internet sites about him exist. He is considered by many as one of the best filmmakers of cinema. The filmmaker is a source of pride, because through his films, Kiarostami manages to present a new, refreshing image of Iran, a poetic […]