“The company released its first Lego Art sets in August 2020, with four kits designed to be hung on the wall. Three of them featured artworks from pop culture—Lego pictures of Darth Vader, Iron Man, and the Beatles—but the fourth was a legitimate piece of art history, recreating Andy Warhol’s famed Marilyn Monroe silkscreen in four different colorways. […]
This week’s Guest Star is Nick Hanover. He writes about Todd Hayne’s documentary, The Velvet Underground (2021). ~~~ Before the Austin Film Society premiere screening of Todd Haynes’s The Velvet Underground, giddy fanboy/celebrated indie auteur Richard Linklater warned the audience this would not be your “typical music documentary […]
Photographer Sandro Miller recreates iconic photographs using John Malkovich as the subject. If you are lucky enough to be in Chicago between Nov. 7 and Jan. 31, you can see the exhibition, “Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters” at the Catherine Edelman Gallery. Here is a video […]