Ianko López
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Betrayal, corruption and cruelty: ‘I, Claudius’, the series that still explains the world 50 years later (opens the original)
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“By the way, don’t touch the figs.” Actress Siân Phillips has remarked that when she traveled the world, even decades after the premiere of I, Claudius, someone would recognize her voice and ask her to deliver the phrase delivered by her character, the Machiavellian Livia Drusilla. That scene from the series competes in collective imagination with its opening sequence, in which at the start of its 13 episodes, a serpent slithered to threatening music over a tiled mosaic face of Emperor Claudius.
‘The Eiffel Tower is a suppository riddled with holes’: When great monuments aren’t to everyone’s liking (opens the original)
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If the line between the sublime and the ridiculous is thin – according to the maxim attributed to Napoleon (among others) – in some examples of architectural projects, that line is never even crossed. Everything can coexist: in reality, it just depends on who’s passing judgement. Where many people see an artistic and structural marvel, others may find the grandiose or conventional nature of a design to be jarring, or on the contrary, that it is too modern. It’s no coincidence that the monuments
Why have Hollywood blockbusters become so gray? (opens the original)
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A few days ago, I came across a close-up of Elizabeth Taylor in Ivanhoe (1952) on social media. Like the features of the actress in her role as the medieval heroine Rebecca of York, the footage was vivid. The lips were of an almost unreal crimson and the lapis lazuli eyes with their violet sparkles acquired an authority of their own and dominated the frame with a liveliness that is difficult to find today. So the question was: how long had it been since I had gotten such a chromatic thrill in a
Destruction, a runaway budget and a monumental set nobody noticed: ‘Les Amants du Pont-Neuf’, the classic film that almost wasn’t made (opens the original)
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If Les Amants du Pont-Neuf had never finished shooting, as seemed destined to happen, it would be a legend today. Documentaries about the great frustrated work would have been released, books would have been written, and cinephiles would have built it in their minds with the precision that every shared fantasy eventually acquires. But of the many incredible things surrounding this movie, the most incredible one of all is its very existence, which was threatened during the nearly three years of a
‘They offered me 20 liters of semen for a sculpture’: Art, porn and fertility clinics (opens the original)
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Three years ago, artist Maja Malou Lyse, 33, received the most unusual proposal of her career: the CEO of Cryos, the world’s largest sperm bank, offered her 20 liters of semen to make a sculpture. For Lyse, whose practice addresses issues such as female empowerment and the relationship between images, desire and media culture, the idea was so bizarre that she saw possibilities in it. “I thought it was an interesting material and said yes,” she explains. “But after a while I realized I didn’t kno
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