Category: Culture
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Ming Smith: Always Moving
“The image is always moving, even if you’re standing still” – Ming Smith My first steps into Ming Smith’s Wind Chime exhibit at the Wexner Center for the Arts left me wonderstruck. A collage of black and white images framed in thick black lines stared back at me. This grouping of photographs, filled with abstract…
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The Allure of Aesthetic: Misreading The Secret History
When the Internet evaluates Donna Tart novels, you’d expect her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Goldfinch, or her Orange prize-winning acclaimed story The Little Friend to come out near the front of the pack – but instead her 1992 debut The Secret History usually tops lists. And I agree. Over its 600 pages, The Secret History details…
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Building A Life: Piece By Piece
“Just be open.” These words, spoken by Pharrell Williams to director Morgan Neville when pitching his idea for a LEGO biopic, are the words you need to hear when experiencing Piece by Piece in theaters. The LEGO biopic hit the big screens on October 11th, 2024 and it gained general public interest with LEGO minifigures…