• New Art

    A confluence of fate leads to new art venue in Shepherdstown | Arts & entertainment

    Specified moments in record can only arise at the ideal confluence of very long-term setting up and the surprising intervention of destiny. This previous November saw just such a second start out to unfold in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, with the harried opening of The Artist’s Confluence & Mercantile, a new artist consignment store on West German Avenue. Store co-proprietor Roselyn Mendez is a Shepherdstown jewelry maker who has offered her art at several area studio excursions and crafts fairs for the earlier 8 a long time. When the pandemic set a halt on her normal revenue events, she came again to a extended-percolating notion about opening a everlasting retail location…

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  • Beautiful Art

    ‘The Most Beautiful Boy in the World’ Review: An Art-House Idol’s Fate

    Art movies utilised to cross in excess of into the mainstream more than they do now, while it nevertheless transpires (just glimpse at the achievements of “Parasite”). But even again in the heyday of artwork-residence earthquakes like “Z” and “Last Tango in Paris,” there was a thing surreal about the crossover phenomenon of Björn Andrésen. He was the 15-12 months-old Swedish boy who director Luchino Visconti solid as the appreciate object in “Death in Venice,” his 1971 movie of Thomas Mann’s novel, and for a time Andrésen blew up like a pop star. “Death in Venice” was a grand, sluggish-shifting, and, to me, normally fairly stilted and awkward piece of…

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