Björn Andrésen: The tragic story of the most beautiful boy in
WEBMay 13, 2021 · Above image: Still, Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti, 1971. Despite’s its lukewarm reception at the time of release, Death in Venice turned 15 year-old Swedish actor Björn Andrésen into an international icon of forbidden lust. Cast by Italian director Luchino Visconti as the film’s embodiment of beauty and temptation, the image took Andrésen hostage from then on, creating a cult ...
100 questions with Rachel Morrison, the first female ... - Hero
WEBDec 23, 2020 · Top image: Still, Black Panther by Ryan Coogler (2018) Rachel Morrison’s images always tell the truth. Whether in her early, low-budget documentaries, following adrift juvenile offenders in Rikers High (2005), or later, in her multi-million dollar entry to the Marvel universe, capturing a generation-defining performance from Chadwick Boseman in Black Panther (2018), Morrison crafts exquisite ...
Louise Bourgeois: absent mothers, childhood trauma and Freudian ...
WEBLouise Bourgeois made art as a means of survival and confronting fear. One of the most unique and influential artists of the 20th century, her widely referenced work includes painting, printmaking and most famously sculpture. Regarded as a reluctant hero of feminist art, her pioneering work derived from lived experience as a woman, mother and ...
George MacKay and Jannis Niewöhner on their brilliantly tense pre …
WEBJan 20, 2022 · We all know the world-altering fallout of what became the Second World War, but Christian Schwochow’s new political thriller Munich: The Edge of War takes us back to the notorious Munich Conference of 1938 – precursing the beginning of the war when Europe was on the brink of turmoil. Based on Robert Harris’ international bestselling novel Munich, the three-day conference convened by ...
The story behind David Hockney’s record-breaking painting ... - Hero
WEBNov 16, 2018 · Flying over Los Angeles in 1964, a trip that would initiate a life-long emotional and artistic relationship with the city, David Hockney was immediately struck by the endless specks of blue that dotted the land below. Unbeknownst to him and his Bradford upbringing, private swimming pools were commonplace in LA, a standard social space that Hockney would adopt as a recurring motif for many of ...
Loewe – HERO MAGAZINE: CULTURE NOW
WEBYoung Chinese actor Leo Wu is the latest Loewe ambassador. Fashion Round-up. Fashion. ICYMI: Bieber in Balenciaga, Loewe get romantic and Craig Green gets totally warped. I Loewe U. Fashion. Blindfolds and love hearts: get …
Nicholas Galiztine is a Prince Charming for a new generation
WEBAug 25, 2021 · A tale for a new age, this version of the story is an updated, diverse, rip-roaring and uplifting musical feast. Galitzine spent a fair chunk of 2020 where most of us probably wish we had been, swashbuckling around up in the clouds, hanging around fantastical English castles; galloping off into a sunset of dreams.
Joan Miró: the Spanish surrealist who inspired Dalí and Magritte
WEBSep 8, 2021 · A driving force during the formative years of Surrealism and an early forebear to the likes of Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, Spanish artist Joan Miró was a prolific innovator across painting, sculpture and ceramics. Though he was born in Barcelona and retained a life-long connection to Catalonia, Miró’s artistic legacy is rooted in ...
HERO 31 Cover Interview: Julian Casablancas and Alex Carapetis
WEBMar 30, 2024 · Ten years have passed and The Voidz are once again fully charged. Here is sonic trailblazer Julian Casablancas, joined by the band’s drummer Alex Carapetis, on a journey through past, present and future, sound, vision and beyond. all clothing CELINE HOMME; sunglasses, jewellery and glove worn throughout, JULIAN’S own.
The photographers who capture the spirit of revolution – HERO
WEBMay 23, 2017 · Diane Meyer: Berlin “American artist Diane Meyer combines medium format film images with intricate hand sewn embroidery. In the Berlin series she has reimagined the entire 104 circumference of the Berlin Wall, the symbolic divide between the communist East and capitalist West during the Cold War.By having the embroidery take the form of digital pixels, she makes a connection between the ...