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“As the Crow Flies” Season 3: TV’s Most Aggressive Anchowoman Returns

As the Crow Flies is a Turkish series created by Deniz Yorulmazer starring Birce Akalay, Miray Daner and Ibrahim Celikkol.

As you already might know, our friend Asli would do literally anything to deliver the news. After two seasons chock-full of action, we see her once again, seemingly calmer and less aggressive. Time has taught her to tone it down a little, at least amongst coworkers.

But don’t worry, our beloved Asili is still ready to do whatever it takes to stay at the top of TV… and to find love.

On the other hand, the former TV queen, Lale, has been relegated to an internet channel. But rest assured, she’ll have new surprises in store as she’s another predator, full of ambition.

“As the Crow Flies ” is a show we must admit: it hooks you in!

About the Show

The Turkish series is all about conflicts, love, and deception… starring two women who fight professionally and romantically.

The show has evolved, with more characters and side stories, introducing new ambitions, promises, and betrayals.

Narrated with a voice over that mimics a nature documentary, it draws parallels between the predators, who have now traded the savanna for the TV world. Let’s be honest, it adds a funny touch to the series.

“As the Crow Flies ” is one of those shows where you can’t help but smirk. Its creators know this and don’t hesitate to insert subtle jokes, exaggerate everything until, inevitably, the plots become so convoluted it turns into a “Falcon Crest” type mess. But that’s the style they aim for, the style they want, and the audience agrees with it just as they did with the ’80s series: it’s a huge success backed up by the numbers.

On the cinematic front, it’s pretty good: fine production design, good production value, and the two leading ladies are flawless in their roles. They give us a compelling tale of a generational battle that, exaggerated beyond logic, is entertaining and amusing.

Our Opinion

It’s a throwback show, over the top, packed with intrigue, and full of villainous characters willing to do whatever it takes to fulfil their dreams.

Hilarious.

The CastBirce AkalayBirce Akalay

Birce Akalay is a Turkish actress. She was born on June 19, 1984 in Istanbul, Turkey. She studied acting at the Mujdat Gezen Art Center and made her professional acting debut in the TV series “Ihlamurlar Altında” in 2005. Since then, she has appeared in numerous television shows and films, gaining recognition for her versatile acting skills. Some of her notable roles include playing Feride in “Küçük Sırlar”, Zeynep in “Poyraz Karayel”, and Bahar Kutlu in “Kuzgun”. Birce Akalay has also won several awards for her performances, solidifying her status as one of the most talented actresses in Turkey.

Miray DanerMiray Daner

Miray Daner is a Turkish actress and model. She was born on January 18, 1999 in Istanbul, Turkey. At the age of 16, she made her acting debut in the popular Turkish TV series “Medcezir” alongside well-known Turkish actors such as Çağatay Ulusoy and Serenay Sarıkaya. Since then, she has appeared in various TV shows and movies, gaining recognition for her acting skills. Some of her notable works include “Kiralık Aşk”, “Meryem”, and “Çocukluk”. Miray Daner continues to be a prominent figure in the Turkish entertainment industry with her talent and beauty.

Ibrahim CelikkolIbrahim Celikkol

Ibrahim Celikkol is a Turkish actor and former fashion model. He gained recognition for his role as Ali in the popular TV series “Merhamet” and has since starred in numerous successful TV shows and films. Celikkol has won multiple awards for his acting, including Best Actor at the 2016 Seoul International Drama Awards for his role in “Kara Sevda.” He is considered one of the most prominent actors in Turkey and has a large fan base both domestically and internationally.

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‘Heartbreak High’ Season 2: An Ordinary High School, but Very Special

Heartbreak High is a youth series starring Ayesha Madon, James Majoos, Chloé Hayden and Asher Yasbincek among other young actors. It is a remake of the 1994 series.

“Heartbreak High” is an Australian series that revives the legendary 90s series and rejuvenates it, bringing it into the modern era. Don’t expect your typical high school show where everything, at its core, is just a moral lesson in disguise to tell us that everything is right and that rules exist for a reason. “Heartbreak High” is a series that questions all these contemporary norms from a youthful perspective.

“Heartbreak High” brings up very modern topics from the typical high school setup, like the battle of the sexes, prevailing morality, and how rebellion serves as a chance to rethink things and say that not everything is alright.

A provocative series, where the characters can burst into song in one scene or do something absurd to constantly break away from the traditional high school show mold.

It is a comedy indeed, but it also offers serious and fun reflection from a teenage perspective.

If you’re expecting another dumb show about dumb teenagers, this series has a lot to teach.

About the series

Above all, it’s very entertaining and always attempts to address current issues by blending comedy and realism. “Heartbreak High” is a series that never wants to lose its realistic touch, yet it strives to maintain its youthful and cheerful spirit. This is a series that is easy and hugely enjoyable to watch, especially if you’re young.

Compared to similar shows: this one wins. It knows how to play on the edge of provocation and reflection, between absurd humor and harsh realism, between a dramatic situation and, in the next sequence, returning to comedy. In this regard, it skillfully guides us through the realm of teenage emotion, where everything is like a roller coaster, going from joy to happiness in a moment.

It doesn’t show an elaborate proposition at the aesthetic level: the dynamics of the narrative matter more than creating the perfect focus to dazzle classic cinema lovers. In “Heartbreak High,” everything must be quick, lively, cheerful, fun, and dramatic, and the narrative agrees with this: it tells a thousand things in a short time, a thousand intertwined stories without losing the thread or the tone.

Our opinion

Yes, everything revolves around sex and it seems to be the Australian version of that series starring Gillian Anderson, but “Heartbreak High” has plenty to say with its well-drawn and intricate characters.

Where to Watch “Heartbreak High”

Netflix

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Midsummer Night (2024) Series on Netflix: A Swedish Family Drama with Deep Emotion

Midsummer Night is a series directed by Per-Olav Sørensen starring Pernilla August and Dennis Storhoi.

If you’re looking for a family drama about time, kinship, human relationships, and the changes life brings, Netflix presents “Midsummer Night”. The drama unfolds over five episodes during the summer solstice, interwoven with several flashbacks.

It might remind some viewers of Bergman, especially some of his films in terms of theme and construction, but “Midsummer Night” is a TV show about characters that mainly talks about the acceptance of time.

A series that’s very “European” in feel where the focus is more on the construction of characters than the visual aesthetics, revolving around dialogues and what the characters think and feel (which brings it close to Ibsen’s European theater).

A drama packed with emotions about accepting maturity and, above all, the passage of time.

Plot

A family comes together to celebrate the summer solstice. Each one will bring their own stories, small or big, to a celebration that will stir up conflicts, old memories, and also, new hopes.

About the series

A series about the family and time, one of those that we’ve seen a thousand times and those that endure because they’re stories of generations, time, life, and death. Yes, everything so significant and, at the same time, as natural as the cycle of life.

Everything revolves around the characters and, therefore, the actors shine more than the series’ aesthetic quality (which is clearly televisual). All stand out, especially Pernilla August, who plays the role of the mother who makes a decision that affects everyone in some way. She’s fantastic in her role, the one that has to shine in the series around which the rest of the characters revolve.

But it’s not a series with a single protagonist. Yes, we’ve seen quite a few series and movies of this kind: here the protagonist is choral or, if you want, as abstract as the family itself or the time that elapses.

The formula is this: a dichotomy is established between a celebration that, at its core, represents the passing of time and, during that brief period, the characters realize that time has passed and that everyone has changed in some way.

Yes, we’ve also seen this in 19th-century theater a thousand times, and this series has a lot of theatrical treatment, just like Bergman had in some of his films, but only in some.

Our opinion

A series that knows how to play with transcendence, time, and its own theatricality. A series where the strength lies in the performances and the construction of the characters. A series that you need to get into and let it capture you, allowing the characters to flow from their apparent theatricality into reality.

Where to Watch “Midsummer Night”

Netflix

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Baby Reindeer (2024) Series on Netflix: A Blend of Comedy, Thriller, and Gritty Realism

Baby Reindeer is a new British comedy series starring Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning.

Today on Netflix, “Baby Reindeer” makes its debut – a hilarious comedy that strikes a unique tone, blending realism, surrealism, bitterness, and optimism. The show cleverly transforms the concept of fatal attractions and stalking into something both amusing and dramatic.

Richard Gadd is the one directing the ship; he’s the creator, scriptwriter, and leading actor. So, you know who to blame if you love it…or not.

He gets what he wants, he does it with flair, and ultimately, “Baby Reindeer” proves to be very entertaining episode after episode.

Plot

A man seeking to become a comedian works in a pub as a bartender. He begins to receive visits from a woman who, at first, does not seem attractive to him. However, due to one circumstance or another, she gradually wins him over with her genuineness and affection. As it turns out, the woman begins to noticeably harass him more and more.

About the series

Despite being incredibly entertaining, the humor is different with a very realistic touch. “Baby Reindeer” is a comedy that revels in misfortune and the harsh reality of shattered dreams. It’s a comedy filled with realism, bitterness, but also a comedy about joy which, ultimately, underlies the everyday sadness of life.

With all its comedic airs, “Baby Reindeer” doesn’t fully surrender to punchline after punchline, because it possesses a detailed plot and good structure in the form of a realistic thriller. It also has a solid production quality and, though it’s not a high-budget series, it manages to set the scene thanks to good sets, and especially due to excellent lighting and staging.

The series packs a lot of bitterness and entertainment because “Baby Reindeer” is a show that tells many, many stories in a slow-paced manner. It’s simultaneously a thriller, a comedy, and a bitter tale.

Our opinion

It’s a highly commendable series where Richard Gadd achieves everything he wants: laying out a complicated story featuring characters that are neither buffoons nor tragic.

It is a comedy or a thriller that, while neither fully comedy nor thriller, manages to be bitter, funny, occasionally sad yet very cheerful.

It’s a strange combination that we found to be quite impressive.

Where to Watch “Baby Reindeer”

Netflix

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Alice Baber: Reverse Infinity – Berry Campbell Gallery Revives Legacy of Overlooked Abstract Expressionist with First Major Exhibition in 40 Years

New York, NY, March 28, 2024: Alice Baber (b. 1928, Charleston, IL; d. 1982, New York, NY) was an artist, curator, feminist, and world traveler, who lived as both an art world insider and an outsider, never having gained the full acknowledgement she deserved throughout her lifetime. The first largescale exhibition of Alice Baber’s work in over 40 years, Alice Baber: Reverse Infinity by Berry Campbell Gallery spotlights a long-overlooked Abstract Expressionist and foundational member of New York City’s Downtown scene. The exhibition will feature paintings by the artist created between 1960 and 1981 and will be accompanied by a 68-page catalogue authored by independent curator Dan Cameron, marking the first major piece of contemporary scholarship dedicated to Baber’s work. 

Gallerists Christine Berry and Martha Campbell first learned about Baber over a decade ago while pouring over gallery rosters from the Downtown era, pursuing information about every artist listed whose name they did not know. The gallery now holds the largest cache of works from the artist and has played an instrumental role in the market’s recent surge of interest in Baber, taking her work from just $3k to nearly $700k at auction in November last year. 

Featuring thinned-down oils and acrylics that act like watercolors, Baber’s work uncovers the pigments hidden in invisible energies, transliterating the movements of light and air across limitless space. While her paintings convey a spirit of unencumbered whimsy, Baber’s enduring commitment to technique and rigorous explorations of color theory are the foundations of her work. As her career progressed, her painterly investigations became more intentional, shifting from bold, free-associative watercolor forms toward a more judicious use of value in works that suggest a more complex, and perhaps even sinister, subtext. 

Although many of the women of Abstract Expressionism have received belated scholarly and critical recognition in recent years, a preponderance of artists from this era remain unrecognized due to age, gender, location, ability, or perceived lack of depth. With Alice Baber: Reverse Infinity, Berry Campbell continues to correct the historical record by facilitating earnest reappraisals of artists whose work deserves serious critical engagement and positioning within art historical canons. 

About Alice Baber Alice Baber, c. 1965. Photo: Gisela Wölbing/Gertrud van Dyck, Bielefeld. Courtesy Archives of American Art.

Alice Baber packed tremendous achievements into a life cut short when she died from cancer at age 54. Baber grew up both in Kansas, IL; and Miami, FL; where her family spent winters due to Baber’s poor health. She later recalled that all the days she remembered from her childhood “were in color.” In 1946, Baber enrolled in Lindenwood College (now Lindenwood University) in St. Charles, Missouri, and transferred to the University of Indiana, Bloomington, in 1948 where she majored in painting and journalism. Upon graduation, her teacher Alton Pickens insisted she move to New York.

In 1951, Baber traveled to France, where she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Fontainebleau. Subsequently, she moved to Manhattan, settling first in the Chelsea Hotel. She took an active role in the Downtown art scene, where she became part of The Club (begun in 1949), an informal salon for avant-garde artists, which held performances, panel discussions, and exhibitions in a variety of artist studios. In the mid-1960s, she became one of The Club’s most dedicated leaders along with the noted art historian Irving Sandler, reviving it at a time when it was in decline. 

Along with Wilfrid Zogbaum and Elaine de Kooning, she became a founding member of the March Gallery, a Tenth Street co-operative gallery that hosted her debut solo show in 1958. It was around that time that Baber found her mature style, described by Grace Glueck for The New York Times: “Disks and puffs of pure bright color drift lyrically over a white field toward a gentle vortex.” Soon after, Baber completed a residency at the Yaddo Colony in Saratoga Springs, NY, then settled in Paris for several years, joining other North American painters, including Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell, Shirley Jaffe, and Paul Jenkins, comprising a group called École Pacifique. In 1964, she married Jenkins (whom she divorced in 1968), traveling to Japan for their joint exhibition at the Osaka Pinacotheca Museum that same year. By 1965, Baber had become affiliated with the A. M. Sachs Gallery on 57th Street, where she received critical acclaim in the press. 

Throughout the 1970s, Baber organized exhibitions with the express goal of platforming her fellow women artists, including 1972’s Color Forum at the University of Texas in Austin and Color, Light, and Image at New York City’s Women’s Interart Center, where Baber became a trustee along with artists Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, and the Feminist writer and activist Kate Millett. By this time, Baber had become active in the Feminist movement by promoting women artists, spurred by the glaring lack of women’s representation in museums. Women in the Arts, an organization that sought to remedy this neglect, organized Women Choose Women, held in January 1973 at the New York Cultural Center. The exhibition included paintings and sculpture by one hundred women selected by the women themselves. In 1974, Baber was the subject of solo shows in New Delhi and Tehran, and in 1976, she embarked on a four-month lecture and exhibition tour of 13 Latin American countries sponsored by the United States Information Agency. Baber supported herself with writing and teaching throughout her career, working as an art editor for the women’s magazine McCall’s, serving as an artist-inresidence in Albuquerque at the University of New Mexico’s Tamarind Institute, and teaching painting at The New School, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Berkeley. 

Baber’s work is held in the collections of four major New York City institutions: The Solomon R.

Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Other museum collections include The Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), The National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.), The San

Francisco Museum of Modern Art (California), The Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, Georgia), The

Worcester Art Museum (United Kingdom), The Guild Hall Museum (East Hampton, New York), The

Ball State University Museum of Art (Muncie, Indiana), The Wallrof Richartz Museum (Koln, Germany), The Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, New York), The Osaka National Museum of Art (Japan), The Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), The Albertina Museum (Vienna, Austria), and theNational Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi, India).

About Berry Campbell Gallery 

Christine Berry and Martha Campbell founded Berry Campbell Gallery in 2013 in a 1000 square foot gallery in Chelsea. Now housed in a custom-built, 9,000 square-foot location on one of Chelsea’s most prestigious blocks, Berry Campbell Gallery has cemented its position among New York City galleries as a champion of artists historically marginalized due to gender, race, age, and geography. 

Central to Berry and Campbell’s collective vision is a blend of scholarly dedication and enduring desire to honor their artists’ lives and work. Focusing on a selection of postwar and contemporary artists, the gallery addresses a critical gap in art history, revealing a depth within American Modernism that is only now coming to light. Notably, since its inception, Berry Campbell has elevated the profiles of postwar Abstract Expressionist women like Bernice Bing, Lynne Drexler, Perle Fine, Judith Godwin, and Ethel Schwabacher, presented alongside a growing roster of contemporary talents such as Nanette Carter, Beverly McIver, and Susan Vecsey, to name a few. 

Berry Campbell’s signature ability to construct new narratives for artists lost to art history has caught the attention of the wider art world, with participation in renowned fairs like Art Basel and Frieze and artist placement within prestigious institutions worldwide. Situated at 524 W 26th Street, the gallery’s current location boasts 4,500 square feet of exhibition space, including a skylit main gallery, four smaller galleries, private viewing areas, a library, executive offices, and extensive on-site storage.  For further information, visit the gallery’s website and follow on Instagram or Facebook.  Alice Baber: Reverse Infinity is on view from April 18, 2024 through May 18, 2024 with an opening reception on Thursday, April 18, 2024 from 6 pm to 8 pm. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10am – 6pm or by request.

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Get Ready to Sleuth: The Highly Anticipated Second Season of VELMA Premieres on April 25

The ten-episode second season of the Max Original adult animated series VELMA from Warner Bros. Animation debuts THURSDAY, APRIL 25.

Season 2 logline: When an even spookier mystery grips Crystal Cove, Velma (Mindy Kaling) must find a way to balance her detective work with the demands of her newfound popularity before it’s too late. Meanwhile, her faithful friends Daphne (Constance Wu), Norville (Sam Richardson), and Fred (Glenn Howerton) are powerless to help thanks to their own personal battles and worse… Detention. 

Season 2 cast: Stars Mindy Kaling, Glenn Howerton, Sam Richardson, and Constance Wu. Additional cast includes Russell Peters, Melissa Fumero, Sarayu Blue, Jane Lynch, Wanda Sykes, Cherry Jones, Frank Welker, Nicole Byer, Gary Cole, Andia Winslow, and Sara Ramirez. 

Season 2 credits: Developed by Charlie Grandy; executive produced by Charlie Grandy, Mindy Kaling, Howard Klein, and Elijah Aron; co-executive produced by Jessica Kumai Scott; supervising producer, Amy Winfrey; producers, Kandace Reuter and Rick Williams; co-producers, Moss Perricone and Greg Gallant.      

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Shadows of Doubt: Award-Winning Detective Sim Coming to Console in 2024 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

LONDON, UK – April 10, 2024 – ColePowered Games and Fireshine Games are excited to announce that the award-winning detective sim Shadows of Doubt is coming to console, and will be available on the PlayStation®5 (PS5) system and Xbox Series X|S in 2024

Revealed during The Triple-i Initiative, a major new content update for the PC version of Shadows of Doubt – ‘The Sharpshooter Assassin’ – is also available to download today, introducing a brand new type of killer for budding detectives to investigate. Embark on a manhunt to track down a sniper in this thrilling new case type, and discover new points of interest to explore, new perks to unlock, and a range of quality of life improvements.

Explore two new buildings and climb the social rankings to investigate the Echelons; new gated communities situated high among the upper floors of the city’s skyscrapers, and only accessible to VIPs. Haven’t yet reached the required social status? We’re sure you can discover alternative methods to reach the Echelons, detective…

Become an even more effective detective with 11 new player perks to unlock as you work your way up the ranks, including fast travel, instant status cures and security clearances to give you the upper hand in your investigation. Discover new quality of life improvements and gameplay tweaks, including a new auto-travel feature, new conversations, new Steam features (including trading cards and badges), an improved user interface, reduced city generation times, and more.

For the full list of content and improvements included in today’s update, head over to Steam. All of the content included in today’s Sharpshooter Assassin update will also be available in the console versions of Shadows of Doubt when it launches on those platforms later this year.

Available now on Steam Early Access and nominated for ‘Most Innovative Gameplay’ at the 2023 Steam Awards, Shadows of Doubt is an immersive crime-solving experience that puts players in the role of a private investigator.

Explore fully simulated cities and meet individual citizens each with their own name, job, apartment and daily routine on your hunt to track down a serial killer. Use a variety of gadgets to uncover evidence, investigate suspects, and approach each case your way. Scan fingerprints, browse call logs, read private emails, bribe citizens, check CCTV, pick locks, break down doors and sabotage security systems – with multiple ways to solve each case, become the detective you want to be.

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MOCA LA Acquires Karon Davis’ Noah and his Ark, 2018 from Wilding Cran Gallery

We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of Karon Davis’ Noah and his Ark, 2018 by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Originally exhibited in MUDDY WATER at Wilding Cran Gallery in 2018, the acquisition of Noah and his Ark, 2018 was made possible by the generous donation of Beth Rudin DeWoody.

As a reflection on climate disaster, displacement, and the inadequacy of governmental relief programs, the sculptural installation of Noah and his Ark features a man pulling a woman and young girl in a rickety boat filled with personal possessions. Depicted as though emerging from imaginary waters, Davis’ contemporized figures recall ancient archetypes, reflecting the cyclical nature of recurring environmental disasters. By centering the narratives of communities most deeply impacted by crisis and destruction, Noah and his Ark imparts the resilience of humanity in the midst of struggle.

Throughout her practice, Karon Davis draws upon elements of theatricality and mythology to explore issues of humanity, survival, and ways of being. Her background in dance, film, and theater further informs her approach to representing the body and how humans relate to one another on a physical level. Through live-casting, the artist’s static figurative sculptures capture experiences and emotions that are at once deeply personal and universally familiar.

Karon Davis (b. 1977, Reno, Nevada) creates sculptures and multimedia installations that touch on issues of history, race, and violence in the United States, using materials as varied as plaster strips, chicken wire, glass, and readymade objects. Drawing on her background in theater and film, Davis creates haunting tableaux inhabited by protagonists both historical and imagined. The figures are created using the artist’s unique plaster method, amalgamations of life-size casts taken from friends and family as well as her own body. The material reflects her longtime interest in ancient Egyptian mummification practices, using wrapping to memorialize different bodies and their complex histories.

Davis grew up in New York and attended Spelman College before studying film at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Museum exhibitions include: Karon Davis: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood, ICA Boston, Boston MA; Black American Portraits, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA; Starless Midnight, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK; NEW SUNS, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL; and Reclamation! Pan- African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection at the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA. Gallery solo and group exhibitions include: Beauty Must Suffer, Salon 94, NY, NY, MUDDY WATER and Pain Management, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Noah Davis, David Zwirner, NY, NY; No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, Jeffrey Deitch, NY, NY/Los Angeles, CA; FEEDBACK, curated by Helen Molesworth, Jack Shainman Gallery | The School, Kinderhook, NY; POWER, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, CA; Rock my Soul curated by Isaac Julien, Victoria Miro, London, UK; CONDO London, Herald St., London, UK, and Dreamweavers, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA. Davis is a recipient of The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2017 Biennial Grant. Davis’ work is in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami FL; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Bunker, West Palm Beach, FL; and the Rubell Museum, Miami, FL and Washington D.C.

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Flowers Gallery Presents: A Retrospective Exhibition of Sir Terry Frost’s Iconic Paintings (1966-2003)

Flowers Gallery is delighted to announce an upcoming exhibition of paintings from the Estate of the late Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003) and the Gallery’s representation of the Estate. The exhibition will take place at Flowers Gallery, Cork Street from 10th April to 11th May and will feature an extensive collection of Frost’s most compelling paintings from 1966 – 2003.

Frost’s unique introduction to painting began in a German prisoner of war camp in World War Two, inspired by fellow Prisoner or War and 20th century British painter Adrian Heath (1920-1922). Frost credited his imprisonment to his ‘heightened perception’ of the world, which motivated him to pursue an artistic career. Later becoming a pioneering figure within the St Ives group of British modernists, Frost’s career spanned over six decades.

TERRY FROST
(1915-2003)Suspended Colour Collage, 1968-70
Acrylic and collage on canvas
101.6 x 106.7 cm
40 x 42 in
(AFG 62904)

Frost’s colour palette was inspired by his surrounding world in both extraordinary and more domestic places such as the sun and moon in Cyprus to the designs of lorry fronts whilst living in Banbury in the 1960s. His unique abstraction draws from motion and gesture, forming his signature symbols of crescents, spirals and semi circles.

Frost’s early paintings reflect upon the surrounding landscapes and scenes of the Cornish seaside and the Yorkshire countryside, two towns where the artist spent most of his life. He was influenced by boats floating by the harbor, sunlight glistening on the waves, or the bending landscape of the Yorkshire moors.

This exhibition not only celebrates Frost’s artistic achievements and his longstanding friendship and collaboration with Flowers Gallery, which dates back to the 1950s. Frost’s profound connection to the landscapes of Cornwall and Yorkshire, as well as his inventive use of colour, inspired by the world around him, have left an indelible mark on the art world.

Sir Terry Frost

ABOUT SIR TERRY FROST (RA) (1915-2003)

Over the course of his career, Sir Terry Frost became one of Britain’s most prominent abstract artists. Living in Cornwall during the 1950s alongside British Modernist artists Roger Hilton, Patrick Heron, and Peter Lanyon, Frost moved into abstraction, later producing three-dimensional work, and experimenting with collage and constructions. Frost was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire in 1915. During WWII, he served in France, the Middle East and Greece. In June 1941, whilst serving with the commandos in Crete, he was captured and moved through several prisoner of war camps. It was at a camp in Bavaria that he began painting; he described how spiritual insight brought on by hunger awakened his creativity. Once freed, Frost studied at Birmingham College of Art and Camberwell School of Art, London. He became associated with the St Ives group, working as an assistant to Barbara Hepworth. His teaching career led him to Bath Academy of Art, the University of Leeds, Cyprus College of Art and the University of Reading. He was awarded the John Moores Painting Prize in 1965. He became a Royal Academician in 1992 and received a knighthood in 1998. His work has been exhibited widely nationally and internationally, with exhibitions at the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; the Royal Academy, London; Tate St Ives; and Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.

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The Hijacking of Flight 601 (2024), a Colombian Series on Netflix with a Heavily Political Kidnapping

The Hijacking of Flight 601 is a Colombian series starring Mónica Lopea, Ángela Cano and Christian Tappan. It is created by Pablo González and Camilo Salazar Prince.

Between 1968 and 1973, the world saw 348 kidnappings. This time was known as the golden age of piracy. More than half of these kidnappings took place in South America, and this series tells the story of the longest one, which was Flight 601.

“The Hijacking of Flight 601” is a series that uncovers not only what happened inside the airplane but also the outside world and political intrigues that unfolded in Colombia.

An intriguing series that has it all: pace, script, and impressive acting in a Colombian production that doesn’t just narrate an isolated incident but analyzes what was happening during that time.

And most importantly, why.

About the Series

An intriguing series that paints a vivid picture of the era and explains why there were so many kidnappings and why Cuba was the destination for most of the hijacked planes. Alliances, intrigues, and a script featuring a host of characters that is well written and capable of explaining the situation and creating a series of entertaining intrigues with excellent performances from all its protagonists.

“The Hijacking of Flight 601” stands out for its pacing, script, and visual aspect, with very careful photography and a grain that reminds us of the 60s-70s, when movies were filmed on film and had such a special texture.

The photography gives the series a way to transport us back in time and create a series that is an entertaining thriller and that, moreover, goes beyond, with a series of international intrigues that explain what was happening, why and who benefited from all this.

It appears that it was no coincidence that there were so many kidnappings during that time after all.

The characters are well-developed and evolve, hiding secrets and intrigues, but all with coherence, rhythm, and a high degree of entertainment.

Our Opinion

A series that surprises in its production aspect, script, and treatment.

Much more than what we could initially expect in a complex and entertaining plot as well as serious.

A true portrait of that era and the circumstances.

Where to Watch “The Hijacking of Flight 601”

Netflix

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