Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art (Canada, 90 min.) Dir. Barry Avrich “How can you have a fake Jackson Pollock hanging on the walls of your house for ten
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Henry Glassie: Field Work (Ireland, 100 min.) Dir. Pat Collins Programme: Contemporary World Cinema (World Premiere) One could call Pat Collins an old soul. His unhurried films are quiet and thoughtful. Films
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Christo’s effort with The Floating Piers is captured brilliantly in the new documentary Walking on Water, directed by Andrey Paounov. Christo’s stories have been documented countless times before, but the cameras have
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Keep Readingnown as the “polka dot artist,” Kusama’s paintings, drawings, installations, performances and film go far beyond that simple description—though they have inspired striking fashion statements worn by some of the gallery’s attendees.
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