Sentences with phrase «artist turned director»

Avant - pop singer - composer Bjork collaborated with San Francisco - born conceptual artist turned director (and boyfriend) Matthew Barney on the soundtrack for Barney's «Drawing Restraint 9,» which hits stores Tuesday (see review on Page 48).

Visual effects artist turned director Stewart played around with the casting (Brad Dourif and Urban share a scene, a mini «Lord of the Rings» reunion) and indulges himself in Western iconography to such a degree that you kind of wish he'd designed this movie, then found a better script to go with it.

Not exact matches

Shortage of exotic shenanigans apart, artist - turned - director Sam Taylor - Johnson has delivered a decently acted and technically well - made adaptation of what remains a fundamentally silly and, at times, simply rather unpleasant story.

Artist - turned - director Noaz Deshe's debut feature about Alias (Hamisi Bazili), an adolescent boy struggling to survive in his native Tanzania, is in some ways the definition of challenging cinema.

A few years after the great Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman and Robert Redford reteamed with director George Roy Hill for this - an intricately crafted and wonderfully structured con artist / heist picture filled with tons of twists and turns, and entertainment value out the wazoo.

But «Godard Mon Amour,» the director's half - parodic / half - earnest stab at turning his country's rule - breaking enfant terrible (played by Louis Garrel) into one - half of a prickly movie couple — focusing on his then - new marriage to his «La Chinoise» star Anne Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin)-- is the kind of curiously inconsequential homage that neither stokes your interest in cinema / Godard nor illuminates a turbulent love story between artists.

But who would have thought his adaptation of Greg Sestero's «The Disaster Artist,» an outrageous blow - by - blow account of the actor - turned - author's friendship with the aggressively untalented and infinitely enigmatic creator of one of the worst movies of this century — «The Room» writer - director - star Tommy Wiseau — would turn out to be the best and most professional entry on his own résumé?

The splashiest films at T.I.F.F. largely came from directors with minimal Oscar race experience, among them Call Me by Your Name's Luca Guadagnino, The Florida Project's Sean Baker, The Shape of Water's Guillermo del Toro (a previous nominee for his Pan's Labyrinth screenplay), and most thrillingly, two young actors - turned - directors: Lady Bird's Greta Gerwig, and The Disaster Artist's James Franco (a best - actor nominee for 127 Hours).

is a deliriously biblical portrait of the artist as a godlike monster (for the record, I liked it), this new film by Paul Thomas Anderson offers a more graceful and far more complicated version of the same idea... Quiet, moody, and deeply perverse (I'll say no more), this fascinating movie reminds us that Anderson is the kind of alchemist - director who can turn somebody ordering breakfast into a classic scene.»

The character is an icon among comic book aficionados but not well known to the general public, which may have hurt the film, but the problem lays more squarely with comic book artist / writer - turned - director Miller, whom makes his solo directing debut with this film.

Instead, «Mr Turner,» though not without flaws, is something of a twilight culmination of Leigh's work, and very much one in which the filmmaker turns his lens on himself, as is so often the case when directors make movies about artists.

The subject of 2012 doc Never Sorry, Chinese artist - activist Ai Weiwei turns director for a stirring study of the refugee crisis.

British visual artist turned narrative filmmaker Steve McQueen is getting back in the director's chair following the success of his award - winning Hunger.

«Tokyo Tribe» (October 23): Of the many directors given access to buckets of blood for a single day of shooting, few are as underrated as Sion Sono, a cinematic artist of narrative left - turns and the giddy spectacles of gore.

Aside from Kaluuya, the leading actor race comes down to Gary Oldman's take on Winston Churchill in «Darkest Hour,» James Franco's work as a delusional director in «The Disaster Artist,» Timothee Chalamet's turn as a love - sick teen in «Call Me by Your Name,» and Washington's performance as a crusading attorney in «Roman J. Israel, Esq..»

Three more indie and AAA developers have added their messages this week: one Call of Duty audio director Mark Kilborn, former EA and Rockstar Leeds turned freelancer Stephen McGreal, and up - and - coming artist Charlotte Conopo of Dojit Games.

At the Renwick show, which was organized by Andrew Perchuk, deputy director of the Getty Research Institute, and Glenn Adamson, there's a work where the artist turned both a base — or, as the jargon has it, a foot — that resembles a soup bowl, as well as the vase it supports, upside down.

Having previously looked back at the first winner, the now octogenarian artist Malcolm Morley; we turn our attentions to the 1999 winner, artist and prestigious Hollywood director Steve McQueen.

After turning down the opportunity to appear in the $ 100,000 Hugo Boss Art Prize, director - cum - artist Steve McQueen has returned to art making.

• Ed Paschke (1939 — 2004), neon - lit Chicago Pop artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955), world - famous sculptor of elevated banality and gleaming toys Prema Murthy (b. 1969), Net - conscious media artist Sarah Morris (b. 1967), brainy geometric abstractionist and appropriationist Jennifer Rubell (b. 1970), food artist extraordinaire Tony Matelli (b. 1971), hyperrealistic sculptor of flora and aggressive fauna • Edward Kienholz (1927 — 1994), Ferus gallery co-founder, iconic Los Angeles artist Jack Goldstein (1945 — 2003), Pictures Generation star and looper of films Ashley Bickerton (b. 1959), Neo-Geo artist of lurid island pop Mark Dion (b. 1961), naturalist conceptualist and arch-cataloguer • Vito Acconci (b. 1940), seminal father of transgressive»70s performance art Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951), artist - turned - «Hurt Locker» director Ken Feingold (b. 1952), conceptualist sculptor of heads Robert Longo (b. 1953), wizard of charcoal and graphite, disturber of «Men in Cities» Mark Innerst (b. 1957), engineering - slanted landscape painter Brock Enright (b. 1976), postmodern pop - culture investigator David Salle (b. 1952), brainy Neo-Expressionist descendent of Picabia Annette Lemieux, lecturer of visual and environmental studies at Harvard Michele Zalopany, pastel Postmodernist • Dan Graham (b. 1942), sculptor of reflective / transparent psychological architecture R.H. Quaytman (b. 1961), literary - minded process painter of high intellectual wattage Cameron Rowland (b. 1988), conceptual found - object sculptor • Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), Neo-Expressionist godhead and Hollywood filmmaker Bill Saylor, sketchy maximalist and Harmony Korine collaborator Greg Bogin (b. 1965), post-Net minimalist

The mural room will be turned into a gallery for works by LeWitt and other artists «who relate to Sol's minimalist aesthetic,» museum director Susan Talbott said.

Curator turned dealer Paul Schimmel held court on the terrace with Baldessari as Wexner Center director Sherri Geldin, Stedelijk director Ann Goldstein, independent curator Simon Castets, artists Sean Landers and Angela Bulloch, former auctioneer Simon de Pury, dealers Andrea Rosen, Lisa Spellman, and a hundred other guests poured through the house.

Kathryn Kanjo returned to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in 2010 as Chief Curator and Head of Curatorial after nearly two decades across the country as curator and director in museums including Portland Art Museum and University Art Museum at the University of California Santa Barbara, as well as the artist residency program Artpace in San Antonio where she helped turn the formerly private foundation into a public charity that went on to feature over 70 on - site specific works by artists.

As Rose Lord, Director of Marian Goodman Gallery in New York and Paris, explained, the artist, who previously worked with a variety of non-traditional materials, including plastics and found objects, now turned to more traditional materials including wood and bronze.

In his preface to Narrow Mist, UCCA Director Jérôme Sans gives his assessment of this tremendously popular European artist: «Erwin Wurm reinvents the vocabulary of sculpture and turns the lexicon — and occasionally his audience — on its head.

In the late 1970s the then Tate director, Sir Norman Reid, had a run - in with the artist after turning down the opportunity to buy, at a reduced price, a double - sized portrait of Gregory Evans diving into a swimming pool.

In this panel discussion, artists Wolfgang Tillmans and Jane & Louise Wilson join former Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton - Jones and Guardian art critic Adrian Searle to create an alternative oral history of this turning point in contemporary art.

Designed as a turn - around book with two front covers, one for each of the venues of this two - part exhibition, this catalogue includes a number of contributions by Rauch's long - time colleagues, including fellow artists Michaël Borremans, Hartwig Ebersbach, Jonathan Meese, and Luc Tuymans; art critics and historians, such as Rudij Bergmann and Werner Hofmann; and museum directors, such as Markus Brüderlin, Robert Fleck, and Klaus Werner.

While black artists selected the shows, the selectors are in turn selected by the directors.

It certainly doesn't seem like two years has elapsed since Nigerian - born Okwui Enwezor's historic turn as artistic director of the 2015 Venice Biennale and «All the World's Futures» featured more than 35 black artists, including Glenn Ligon who graced the entrance to the 56th International Exhibition with a neon work.

An ever more vocal coalition of artists and critics is pushing for the prize to be reformed, claiming that it is the plaything of a small metropolitan clique around the Tate galleries» director, Sir Nicholas Serota, and the advertising tycoon - turned - art dealer Charles Saatchi.

Other previous Guest Directors include the acclaimed recording artist, poet, playwright and novelist Kate Tempest (2017), pioneering artist and musician Laurie Anderson, who led the 50th Brighton Festival in 2016, award - winning author Ali Smith (2015) and musician Brian Eno (2010) who have all taken turns shaping the three - week programme of cultural events.

In addition, as the program provides a unique opportunity to work closely with the biennale's co-artistic directors, visiting curators and participating artists, it is quickly turning into a gathering hub for young curators from all over the world.

Among the A-list artists, collectors, philanthropists, performers and social set who turned out to support the museum and its director, Terrie Sultan, were Ross Bleckner, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Sharon Bush, and Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper, to name only a few of the nearly 1,000 who bought up all the tickets.

Artist and musician Antony (of Antony and The Johnsons) teamed up with director and videographer Charles Atlas for You Are My Sister (TURNING), a remarkable video installation that took over almost every screen in Times Square for the last three minutes before midnight in December.

Danny Leigh meets artist - turned - director Julian Schnabel.

On stage at the BFI Southbank, artist - turned - director Julian Schnabel talks about his experiences making The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the agony of quitting smoking and the joy of being heckled by a drunken Sean Young.

Artist - turned - director Julian Schnabel talks about his experiences making The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the agony of quitting smoking and the joy of being heckled by a drunken Sean Young

Focusing on core themes in both artists» works, this volume traces Jean's path to becoming a prominent international director, bringing together paintings, drawings, films, costumes, and photos — as well as the ceramics he made before he turned to cinema.