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Idris Khan After… at Sean Kelly, New York

Sean Kelly is pleased to present After…, Idris Khan’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, March 14, 6-8 pm. The artist will be present. This presentation coincides with his first major museum exhibition in the US at the Milwaukee Art Museum, opening to the public on April 5.

After… showcases several exciting developments in Khan’s practice. The exhibition introduces a process whereby the artist deconstructs art historical masterpieces to rich pallets of color, referencing the volume and importance of the original painting’s power.

Khan’s newest explorations focus on color and music, and their abilities to contain a world of memories, associations, and emotions which resonate on a universal level. Utilizing technology as complex as it is sensitive and poetic, Khan scans photographic reproductions of these artworks into a sound software that reveals their tone and color density. He then creates separate oil and water-based ink works with the dimensions of each color corresponding to the percentage in which it appears in the original painting. Each artwork is comprised of a grid-like structure of individually framed elements denoting the original work’s specific color palette. Khan also assigns musical notations to each hue and transcribes them to create a score for each painting. The panels are repeatedly stamped, in Khan’s signature style, with each works distinctive notation and overlaid with collaged sheet music, carefully selected for its shape and pattern. With this new body of work, Khan moves from representing a collapse in time to making evident the soundscape of each masterpiece. After… takes as its source iconic paintings so familiar that they now form part of the collective unconscious, including Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Johannes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid, and his Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window.

Idris Khan’s oeuvre draws on diverse cultural sources–literature, history, art, and music–to shape a distinctive narrative featuring densely layered images that metaphysically condense time into single moments. After… marks an important evolution in Idris Khan’s artistic practice and pays homage to the twentieth anniversary of Every…, Khan’s MFA exhibition from the Royal College of Art in London. It signifies a compelling shift in Khan’s artistic paradigm, inviting viewers to take a nuanced and multi-level approach to how they perceive a work of art. The exhibition includes a selection of new oil and water-based ink works and gesso on aluminum panel paintings, for which Khan is known, incorporating into the work a striking new palette.

Idris Khan’s first US museum solo exhibition, Repeat After Me, opens at the Milwaukee Art Museum on April 5, 2024. Featuring major works covering every facet of Khan’s career, the exhibition includes new works that respond directly to paintings in the museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition will be on view through August 11, 2024.

Idris Khan lives and works in London, United Kingdom. His work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at international institutions, including Chateau la Coste, France; The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK; the Whitworth Gallery, the University of Manchester, UK; Gothenburg Konsthall, Sweden; the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada; Kunsthaus Murz, Mürzzuschlag, Austria, and K20, Dusseldorf, Germany. Khan’s design for Abu Dhabi’s memorial park, Wahat Al Karama, was awarded the 2017 American Architecture Prize, and he was appointed an OBE for services to Art in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honors List. His work is in the permanent collections of many institutions worldwide, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Albright-Knox Museum, New York; The British Museum, London; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the de Young Museum, San Francisco; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

For additional information on Idris Khan, please visit skny.com

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2024 YMCG a Stunning Success Under New Music Director Daniel Harding

HONG KONG, Feb. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The 2024 Youth Music Culture The Greater Bay Area (YMCG) reached a successful conclusion on Jan. 31 at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. YMCG was founded in 2017 and is held every year. The event was upgraded from Guangdong to the Greater Bay Area in 2023.

The 84 young musicians of the 2024 YMCG Orchestra were selected from 70 renowned music schools in China, Europe, America, and Asia, and nearly 20 Chinese professional orchestras. Internationally-renowned conductor Daniel Harding, who will serve as the music director for the five YMCG events from 2024 to 2028, and the faculty team led the young musicians on a fruitful weeklong artistic journey from Jan. 20 to Feb. 1. The YMCG faculty team includes principal players from the world’s top orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, and London Symphony Orchestra.

Between 2017 and 2023, hundreds of young musicians, from 59 cities in 21 countries, participated in YMCG, including students from leading international music schools, such as Harvard University, Yale School of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, and the Royal Conservatory of Music. Many have since held positions in renowned orchestras and conservatories, or won prizes at international music competitions. Liu Ming served as the concertmaster of the YMCG Orchestra and is now the concertmaster of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.

YMCG is an excellent platform to promote the creation, dissemination, and promotion of musical excellence. In Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra commissioned Hong Kong composer Elliot Leung to write Aureate Skylines, a new work for the 2024 YMCG. At the opening concert, composer Zhou Tian’s Metropolis, also commissioned by the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, gave the audience vivid insight into the development and progress of Guangzhou, the Greater Bay Area, and China.

During the 2024 YMCG, the young musicians and faculty members held several concerts, talks and master classes. They also visited several cultural and tourist landmarks in the Greater Bay Area — including the Cantonese Opera Museum, the Guangdong Museum, and the Canton Tower — for public performances and to learn about Guangdong culture. With these activities, based around the city’s cultural and tourism landmarks, the 2024 YMCG creatively fused music with culture and tourism — “with culture to promote tourism, and tourism to recognize culture.”

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Josef Koudelka: Industry – Pace Gallery, New York

New York – Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Josef Koudelka at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view from March 29 to April 27, this will be the artist’s first solo show in New York in nearly a decade, bringing together six large-scale panoramas he created between 1987 and 2010 as part of a project titled Industries. The exhibition will also include a display of small-scale, accordion-style maquettes of Mission Photographique Transmanche, Beyrouth Centre Ville, The Black Triangle, Reconnaissance-Wales, Lime Stone, Teatro del Tempo, Camargue, Piemonte, WALL, Ruins, and Solac. This presentation at Pace coincides with the release of Josef Koudelka: Next, the definitive and only authorized biography of the artist, published by Aperture. The book will be available for purchase on-site at the gallery during the run of the exhibition.

Born in Czechoslovakia in 1938, Koudelka trained as an aeronautical engineer but began photographing Romani people—their everyday lives, their struggles, and their traditions—mainly in central European countries in the early 1960s, making a full-time commitment to photography later that decade. In 1968, he photographed the Soviet invasion of Prague, publishing his works under the initials P.P. (Prague photographer). Koudelka, who was anonymously awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal for those photographs, left Czechoslovakia seeking political asylum in England, with assistance from the Magnum Photos cooperative, in 1970. His first book, Gypsies, was released by Aperture in 1975, and he has since produced more than a dozen publications of his work.

Koudelka’s interest in the social and political dimensions of photography, evident in his earliest bodies of work, would endure through the following decades. He has been working in large-format, panoramic photography since 1986, capturing images of changing landscapes around the world—places that have been reshaped, altered, and in some cases devastated by the effects of industry, time, and war.

Adopting a semi-nomadic lifestyle in pursuit of documenting these haunting, elegiac scenes, Koudelka produced deeply interconnected bodies of work that speak to the ways that the weight of history lingers within the natural world. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the artist photographed the Berlin Wall; the streets of Beirut immediately following the Lebanese Civil War; outsized industrialization and pollution in the Black Triangle, a border region between Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic; the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland; and other places forever transformed by sociopolitical turmoil, violence, and environmental destruction.

Also among Koudelka’s famous panoramic projects are his Ruins series, for which he photographed more than 200 archeological sites across Greece, Italy, Libya, Syria, and other countries between 1991 and 2015, and his body of work on Israel’s West Bank Wall, which he created over the course of seven trips to Israel and Palestine between 2008 and 2012.

“The face of the wounded landscape—it is marked by trouble, by suffering,” Koudelka tells his biographer, Melissa Harris. “It is the same as the face of people who have a difficult life. I am interested in real people, real faces … In this wounded landscape, I admire the fight for survival … Nature is stronger than man.”

The artist’s upcoming exhibition with Pace in New York, his first solo show in the city since 2015, will be presented on the gallery’s seventh floor against sweeping views of the Chelsea skyline. Measuring some nine feet in width, each of the six monumental panoramas that Koudelka has selected for the exhibition—captured across the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Azerbaijan, and Israel between 1987 and 2010—tells a different story.

Josef Koudelka (b. 1938) began his career as an aeronautical engineer in Prague and Bratislava, and began photographing stage productions for theater magazines. After documenting gypsy culture in Romania, Slovakia, and Western Europe, he committed to photography full-time in 1967. The following year, Koudelka photographed the Soviet invasion of Prague, publishing his images under the initials “P. P.” (Prague Photographer) for fear of reprisal. He was anonymously awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal for this work in 1969.

Since 1986, Koudelka has embraced and employed the expansive compositional format of the panorama. From his commissioned investigation of the French-English region impacted by the Channel Tunnel for La Mission Photographique Transmanche project, to his exploration of the political climate in Israel and Palestine, and his recent documentation of the persistence of classicism along the Mediterranean rim, Koudelka has continuously used panoramic cameras to showcase terrains that have been significantly shaped, altered, and even devastated by the effects of industry, time, and territorial conflict.

Pace is a leading international art gallery representing some of the most influential contemporary artists and estates from the past century, holding decades-long relationships with Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Barbara Hepworth, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, and Mark Rothko. Pace enjoys a unique U.S. heritage spanning East and West coasts through its early support of artists central to the Abstract Expressionist and Light and Space movements.

Since its founding by Arne Glimcher in 1960, Pace has developed a distinguished legacy as an artist-first gallery that mounts seminal historical and contemporary exhibitions. Under the current leadership of CEO Marc Glimcher, Pace continues to support its artists and share their visionary work with audiences worldwide by remaining at the forefront of innovation. Now in its seventh decade, the gallery advances its mission through a robust global program— comprising exhibitions, artist projects, public installations, institutional collaborations, performances, and interdisciplinary projects. Pace has a legacy in art bookmaking and has published over five hundred titles in close collaboration with artists, with a focus on original scholarship and on introducing new voices to the art historical canon.

Today, Pace has seven locations worldwide, including European footholds in London and Geneva as well as Berlin, where the gallery established an office in 2023. Pace maintains two galleries in New York—its headquarters at 540 West 25th Street, which welcomed almost 120,000 visitors and programmed 20 shows in its first six months, and an adjacent 8,000 sq. ft. exhibition space at 510 West 25th Street. Pace’s long and pioneering history in California includes a gallery in Palo Alto, which was open from 2016 to 2022. Pace’s engagement with Silicon Valley’s technology industry has had a lasting impact on the gallery at a global level, accelerating its initiatives connecting art and technology as well as its work with experiential artists. Pace consolidated its West Coast activity through its flagship in Los Angeles, which opened in 2022. Pace was one of the first international galleries to establish outposts in Asia, where it operates permanent gallery spaces in Hong Kong and Seoul, along with an office and viewing room in Beijing. In spring 2024, Pace will open its first gallery space in Japan in Tokyo’s new Azabudai Hills development.

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The most interesting and vibrant MMO RPGs for your gameplay

MMO RPGs are online projects that place a lot of emphasis on following the storyline, but in a way that the player chooses.

You will choose your hero, select a race and class, and develop your character as you see fit.

All large and fundamental projects that began the development of the genre, or contributed to the success of the trend, added something of their own to the industry, which is actively used by other developers and adds uniqueness to the project.

World of Warcraft

One of the most important and fundamental projects that introduced the MMO RPG format and added its own unique features and mechanics that other developers use in their projects.

Two factions, like two sides of a conflict

In WoW there are two large factions, which include many races – the Horde and the Alliance, which are in irreconcilable hostility and once you choose one side, you will no longer be able to change it, and you will always have constant enemies and allies.

This means that all locations after level 20 will be common, and you will always have a chance to encounter enemies and fight for key spots to gain experience and WoW gold.

Victories over the enemy will bring you special coins of valor, which you can accumulate and spend on purchasing special equipment and weapons with high performance and characteristics that have enhancing effects in PVP.

Lineage 2

A project from NC Soft, which introduced into the gaming industry and MMO RPGs the format of leveling up in locations without quests, only by hunting monsters alone, or as part of a group, with fighting in spots for the best mobs, experience and adena – the local currency of L2.

PVP has an important role in the project because players always have to share spots with the best monsters and often join clans and declare wars to constantly fight with certain players with whom there is a conflict of interest.

Sieges

In Lineage 2 there are castles that are closely associated with each major city and the clan that owns the castle has the right to tax the city itself and receive a percentage of each transaction and sale of players.

The most valuable is Aden, which is the capital and collects income not only from the main city, but also from all the cities that are located on the continent.

Runa is a castle that also collects tribute from three cities.

Giran is a large trading city, which, even without connections with other regions, collects a large percentage within two weeks, because most of the activities and trade transactions take place there.

Every two weeks, level 5 clans have the right to register for the assault or defense of one of the castles, and within two hours everyone will have the opportunity to change the ruler in battle, who will hold the castle for at least two weeks and then fight again for ownership.

To capture the castle you need to break through the outer and inner gates and read the seal, which lasts 2 minutes and then the owner of the castle will change.

The clan that owns the castle at the end of the siege will win.

The most interesting format of sieges is that hundreds and thousands of players can come together in battles, fighting against each other.

The attackers must break through all stages of the defense and destroy all the crystals, which speed up the process of the defenders returning to battle again and if you destroy them all, the return time will be increased from 30 seconds to 8 minutes.

You will fight when leaving the peaceful city, in the PVP zone, on the walls of the castle and in the inner hall. Clan leaders will combine the actions of unions and alliances to prevent enemies from advancing and even try to cast a seal to change the owner of the castle.

If the owner of the castle changes during the siege, the gates, walls and crystals will be restored, and all efforts will need to start again

Destiny 2

An MMO RPG shooter from Bungie that combines shooter mechanics and space exploration.

You will join other players who are repelling a major invasion of alien invaders.

You will be able to choose one of three heroes and begin your journey of leveling up, developing and studying the storyline, grinding on locations and destroying monsters, storming dangerous zones and territories that are filled with difficult enemies and a boss at the head – for winning such dungeons you will receive new and unique weapons that will help in further character development and PVP mode.

You will always have the opportunity to abandon the main gameplay mechanics and simply explore space and planets, so as part of the Lightfall update you will be able to go to Neptune and fully explore one of the most distant planets in the solar system.

Full-fledged shooter

Shooting and accuracy play a key role and if you shoot in the head and constantly work on improving your weapons, you will progress very quickly and at the same time study space.

Final Fantasy 14

A project from the Squire Enix studio, which is built on the concept of hero development and story mode, which dates back to the first single-player project and the story of Cloud and Tifa.

You will go through a storyline, which, according to the developers, will take at least 100 real hours.

FF 14 took a lot of ideas from World of Warcraft and Lineage 2 and added to the core mechanics.

You can even just fly over the territories if you complete the first flight quest and get your first flying pet and can take off and move through the air. This mechanic does not cancel fast movements in any way and is more of a visual effect.

The player will be able to fully experience his own influence on the entire storyline due to his presence in all video cutscenes and videos personally, after creating his character.

If you are a fan of the Final Fantasy series, starting with the console and PC versions, then in the online MMO you can not only find out the continuation of the entire story, but also the fate of many main and minor characters, who will also end up in the world of FF 14.

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MoAD Announces First Solo Museum Exhibition in the United States of British Painter and Visual Artist Rachel Jones

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – !!!!!’, the exhibition continues the artist’s use of mouths and teeth to symbolize encounters between Black interiority and outward expression, celebrating the artist’s gesture as its own communicative medium. Additionally, the series of new paintings will boldly add a new dimension through negative space, with raw untouched linen augmenting her phantasmic landscapes. Tickets to the exhibition are available now at moadsf.org/tickets

“Rachel Jones wields a distinct vision and we’re honored that the museum will be hosting her very first museum solo exhibition in the United States,” said Monetta White, Executive Director. “She shares our commitment to exhibit work that inspires each of us to locate the joy found within ourselves. Her work carries vast entry points that allow viewers to linger, contemplate, and settle inside her vivid, psychic landscapes.”

Born in 1991 in London, Jones completed her MA in Fine Art in 2019 at the Royal Academy Schools. In recent years she’s become internationally-renowned for her large-scale, abstract paintings featuring teeth and mouths amongst energetic color fields. Jones makes the mouth’s outline its own glyph or icon, becoming a vessel to explore Black expression and world building. For her exhibition at MoAD, Jones will take these queries a step further, adding her interests in text and the process of signification more explicitly. The show’s title, pronounced as “five exclamation points,” gestures toward the gap between symbols and what they seek to describe. This mysterious excess in between the mind and the mouth is used as painterly raw material in the artist’s vibrant works, creating worlds of new and unrestrained emotion.

“Having observed Rachel’s practice evolve over the past four years, it is an honor to collaborate with her to debut this distinctive body of work at MoAD,” said Erin Jenoa Gilbert. “I’ve witnessed her mesmerizing compositions enforce the idea that at a cellular level, the mouth is central to our comprehension of human emotion. For people throughout the African diaspora, it is a site in which decipherable and indecipherable experiences are transformed through poetic intonation and incantation. Rachel’s practice forcefully contends with the history of painting, transcending categories as her work oscillates between abstraction and figuration.”

‘!!!!!’ will feature twelve new paintings made in 2023 and 2024: six large-scale paintings on linen all titled ‘!!!!!’ accompanied by six smaller works on canvas, each titled ‘!!!!!’ . The large linen pieces frequently employ the artist’s familiar mouth and teeth motifs which take up the entire painting, aiming toward a monstrous and comical effect. For this exhibition, Looney Tunes imagery and scenes are used as references that shore up parallels between real and fictional environments. Swirling hues and deep pigments foreground or submerge the mouths, illustrating internal psychological states like angst, goofiness or slyness.

Teeth are sometimes conventionally-shaped but rendered in a comic style to spark intrigue and curiosity. The smaller paintings on canvas are more heavily layered, linked directly with the punctuating force of the exhibition’s title. Their fullness and titling signals the conceptual importance of sound, noise, and speech. Mouths, as the origin point of sound, represent the mysterious, elusive qualities of a protected inner life. Rachel Jones’ ‘!!!!!’ invites viewers to bask in these enigmatic inward journeys, where literal interpretation is left behind in favor of seeing and feeling for oneself.

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Leyla Yenirce: Sound Performance – Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris

Fitzpatrick Gallery is pleased to present a sound performance by Leyla Yenirce, this Saturday, February 24th, at 6 pm, in Paris, marking the end of the artist’s residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, in Paris.

Leyla Yenirce is a multi-disciplinary artist working between video, installation, and performance. Her works deal with multi-layered themes such as cultural and medial structures of dominance. She often creates cinematic, staged works based on found footage that are politically and critically charged. A central aspect of her work is the deliberate use of sound.

Leyla Yenirce is currently based in Hamburg, Germany. Having graduated from the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, her first solo exhibition SO MUCH ENERGY took place at the Kunsthaus Hamburg in 2022. In 2024, Yenirce’s video work Being Stong is Hard was screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The artist will also participate in group exhibitions at Museum Folkwang, Essen and Kunsthalle Münster, and perform at the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg. Among other notable institutions, Yenirce has exhibited at Haus der Kunst, Munich (2023); Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2023) and Halle für Kunst Lueneburg (2022).

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Joanna Beall Westermann, ‘Works from the Estate’ – George Adams Gallery, New York

The George Adams Gallery is pleased to announce its representation of the Estate of Joanna Beall Westermann. Our first exhibition of her work will be held from February 23rd to April 6th in the back gallery. The gallery will host a reception on February 23 from 6-8 pm.

Beall Westermann’s artistic style was a fusion of various influences, notably modernism, expressionism, and surrealism. She exhibited a masterful command of color and composition, often blending multiple scenes and elements within a single plane. While surrealism permeated much of her work, her paintings and drawings remained firmly grounded in reality rather than delving into a purely dreamlike realm. Over time, her artistic expression evolved toward greater abstraction, culminating in works of profound simplicity and depth.

Born in Chicago in 1935 and raised in Connecticut, Joanna Beall Westermann was deeply immersed in the world of art from an early age, as the daughter of the renowned graphic designer and painter Lester Beall Sr. Her education took her to Yale University, where she studied under Josef Albers, and to Mexico, where she apprenticed with Diego Rivera, before completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1958. It was in Chicago that she met her husband, H.C. Westermann, a sculptor and printmaker, with whom she shared a symbiotic artistic relationship, exchanging ideas and techniques.

Beall Westermann’s work was featured in numerous institutional presentations, including exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1973; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1973; The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, 1976; UCLA University Galleries, Los Angeles; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Oakland Museum, California; and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. Beall Westermann showed extensively throughout her career including exhibitions at Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, 1960 and 1961; Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, 1968 and 1971; The Great Building Crack Up Gallery, New York, 1973; James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, 1974, 1977 and 1985; and Xavier Fourcade Gallery, New York, 1980. Her work is held in the collections of the Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago and the Copley Foundation, New York. Beall Westermann passed away in 1997 in Connecticut.

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Who is the actor Trevante Rhodes?

Trevante Rhodes is an American actor who has gained recognition for his exceptional talent and performances in both film and television. His journey to success has been remarkable, starting from his early days as a sprinter to becoming an award-winning actor.

Early Life

Trevante Nemour Rhodes was born on February 10, 1990, in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. He grew up in a supportive family, with his parents, Demour Dangelo and Jessi Rhodes, always encouraging his dreams. When he was ten years old, the family relocated to Little Elm, Texas, where Rhodes would embark on his athletic and acting journey.

Rhodes attended Little Elm High School, where he excelled in both football and track and field. As a running back in football, he showcased his agility and speed, while in track and field, he specialized in sprinting events like the 100 and 200 meters. Rhodes earned four letters in both sports and even competed in the 2007 UIL Track and Field Championships, finishing second in both the 100 and 200 meters.

Sports Career

Rhodes’ talent as a sprinter did not go unnoticed, and he continued to pursue his passion for athletics at the University of Texas at Austin. Representing the Texas Longhorns from 2008 to 2012, Rhodes competed in various track and field events, including the 4×100 meters relay. His dedication and hard work paid off when he helped the U.S. team secure a gold medal in the 4×100 meters relay at the 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Transition to Acting

After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, Rhodes made a bold career move by transitioning from athletics to acting. He relocated to KwaThema and immediately immersed himself in the world of acting. Rhodes landed supporting roles in several notable films, including “Ingoma,” “Open Windows,” “Shangri-La Suite,” and “The Night Is Young.” His talent and dedication caught the attention of industry professionals, leading to more significant opportunities.

Breakthrough in Film

In 2016, Rhodes had his breakthrough moment in the film industry when he portrayed the character of Chiron in the critically acclaimed film “Moonlight.” Directed by Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight” explored themes of identity, sexuality, and self-discovery. Rhodes’ performance as the adult Chiron garnered widespread praise and earned him accolades. He brought depth, vulnerability, and authenticity to the character, leaving a lasting impression on audiences and critics alike.

Notable Filmography

Rhodes’ success in “Moonlight” opened doors to more prominent roles and exciting projects. In 2018, he co-starred in the science fiction action film “The Predator,” where he showcased his versatility as an actor. He then appeared in the post-apocalyptic thriller film “Bird Box,” starring alongside Sandra Bullock. Rhodes’ captivating performances continued to resonate with audiences, solidifying his position as a rising star in Hollywood.

In 2021, Rhodes portrayed the character of Jimmy Fletcher in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” a biographical drama film. His portrayal of the complex and conflicted FBI agent earned him critical acclaim and further showcased his range as an actor. Rhodes’ dedication to his craft and ability to bring depth to his characters have made him a sought-after talent in the industry.

Here is a comprehensive list of Trevante Rhodes’ filmography:

YearTitleRole2012I Came BackDr. Peter Montgomery (Short film)2014Open WindowsBrian2015The Night Is YoungGeorge2016Lady LuckDaryl2016Shangri-La SuiteMike2016MoonlightChiron (a.k.a. Black)2017Burning SandsFernander2017Song to Song(Scenes deleted)2017SmartassMike C201812 StrongSergeant First Class Ben Milo2018The PredatorNebraska Williams2018Bird BoxTom2021The United States vs. Billie HolidayJimmy Fletcher2022BruiserPorter2023Candy Cane LaneTre2024Mea Culpa(Post-production)Awards and Nominations

Rhodes’ exceptional talent and performances have been recognized by various award ceremonies and organizations. Here are some of the notable awards and nominations he has received throughout his career:

YearCeremonyCategoryNominated WorkResult2016Chicago Film Critics AssociationBest Supporting ActorMoonlightNominated2016Chicago Film Critics AssociationMost Promising PerformerMoonlightNominated2016Detroit Film Critics SocietyBest BreakthroughMoonlightNominated2016Austin Film Critics AssociationBest Supporting ActorMoonlightNominated2016Austin Film Critics AssociationBreakthrough Artist AwardMoonlightNominated2017Independent Spirit AwardsRobert Altman AwardMoonlightWon2017Dorian AwardsFilm Performance of the Year — ActorMoonlightNominated2017Screen Actors Guild AwardOutstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion PictureMoonlightNominated2017NAACP Image AwardsOutstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion PictureMoonlightNominated2017Black Reel AwardsOutstanding Breakthrough Performance, MaleMoonlightWon2023NAACP Image AwardsOutstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Limited Series or Dramatic SpecialMikeNominated2023Independent Spirit AwardsBest Supporting PerformanceBruiserNominated2024Black Reel AwardsOutstanding Supporting Performance in a TV Movie/Limited SeriesNominated

Trevante Rhodes has captivated audiences with his raw talent, versatility, and dedication to his craft. From his humble beginnings as a sprinter to becoming an award-winning actor, Rhodes’ journey is a testament to his perseverance and passion. With each role he takes on, he continues to push boundaries and leave a lasting impact on the film industry. As Rhodes’ career evolves, we eagerly anticipate the remarkable performances he has yet to deliver.

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Can I Tell You A Secret? (2024) – A True Crime Documentary on Netflix: Are you afraid of social networks? You should be

Can I Tell You A Secret? is a docuseries directed by Liza Williams. A two-part documentary on cyberbullying is available on Netflix.

Several girls share their experiences, both personal and professional, through social media. One day, they start receiving strange messages from strangers claiming to know everything about them. After creating a fake account, the perpetrator pretended to be one of the girls and contacted someone close to them. This was not an isolated case, as the stalker used multiple fake accounts on the internet, pretending to be different people in order to harass and terrorize the victims and their loved ones.

“Can I Tell You A Secret?” is a true crime documentary divided into two 50-minute episodes, featuring testimonies from these girls who were cyberbullied by someone using various fake identities to terrorize them.

About the True Crime Documentary Genre

If you’ve never watched a true crime documentary, this is a prime example: it is a genre that uses various cinematic techniques to heighten the horror of the events, going beyond the documentary itself and creating a cinematic narrative that, while based on real events, can sometimes feel more like fiction than a documentary. But, as the creators know, by playing on the fact that everything they tell is true and often featuring testimonies from the victims themselves.

“Can I Tell You A Secret?” is a perfect example of the good and the bad of this genre: it manages to captivate because the story is real and terrifying, and it does so by behaving like a horror film, concealing the stalker’s identity to create suspense, using scary music, and employing shots and situations to constantly keep the viewer on edge.

A documentary that lies? Not at all, it uses cinematic storytelling throughout, blending film and reality, and seeks to impress and terrorize the viewer with a terrifying story that will leave an impression. And as we all know, true crime generates thousands of views and has fans all over the world, no matter how much we may criticize it.

About the Documentary

“Can I Tell You A Secret?” is perfectly in line with its intentions: it creates suspense, has a shocking story to terrify us, and does so directly because, dear viewers, we came here to feel afraid of reality. It makes us feel fear, it provokes us constantly, and the story is terrible, making us want to close our social media accounts and pray to a higher power to prevent someone from impersonating us and ruining our lives.

A documentary that knows how to create panic, that knows how to frighten and use everything it has to create fear beyond the story it tells and make us realize that “it could happen to you too.”

A warning, almost apocalyptic in its social implications: no matter how much you try to run, you cannot escape the fact that someone may impersonate you and contact your family and friends.

Our Opinion

Consider yourselves warned: viewers know what they are getting into, and this genre produces a mix of fascination and terror by turning a terrifying reality into a fictional film.

Where to Watch “Can I Tell You A Secret?”

Netflix

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Refik Anadol – Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive – Serpentine North Gallery

Serpentine is thrilled to present Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, an exhibition of new and recent works by internationally renowned artist, technologist, and pioneer in artificial intelligence arts, Refik Anadol. The exhibition is on view at Serpentine North

Known for his digital works and large-scale public installations that present real-time generative environments, Anadol’s collaborative creative process with Al plays on human perception. Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive presents years-long experimentation with visual data of underwater landscapes and rainforests.

Refik Anadol, Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, 2024. Installation view, Serpentine North. Photo: Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy Refik Anadol Studio and Serpentine.

The exhibition features Artificial Realities: Coral (2023), an immersive installation enveloping viewers in an AI’s imagination of underwater landscapes. For this artwork, Refik Anadol Studio trained a unique Al model with approximately 135 million images of corals openly accessible online. Generating abstracted coral images, the Al constructs new visuals and colour combinations based on the dataset.

Anadol’s solo exhibition also features the UK premiere of Living Archive: Large Nature Model a new site-specific installation which was first introduced at the World Economic Forum 2024 in Davos, Switzerland. At Serpentine North, the installation transforms the gallery into the Al model’s interpretation of a rainforest. It is the first installation in a growing body of work that is created employing The Large Nature Model, the world’s first open­ source generative Al model dedicated to nature. For this ongoing research, the artist worked with the data of majar institutions, including the Smithsonian lnstitution and London’s Natural History Museum. As additional data partners, such as universities, museums, foundations, government entities and libraries join the effort, the model, centred around archival images of fauna, flora and fungi, will expand over the coming years.

Refik Anadol said: “I am thrilled to bring our Studio’s most ambitious Al Art projects to date to Serpentine this year. A ground-breaking initiative that we call the Large Nature Model, developed by our Studio, stands as the world’s first open-source, generative Al multimodal focused on nature, trained on an extensive and ethically sourced dataset of the natural world. Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive displays multisensory artworks derived from this model, featuring visuals and sound. Collaborating on such a significant project with my long-time mentor, Hans Ulrich Obrist, with whom I’ve shared many stages discussing the future of Al art, is an immense privilege.”

Bettina Korek, CEO, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine, said: “Refik Anadol brings art, science and technology together to create generative, immersive environments that fascinate, educate and enchant audiences. This show kicks off ayear of research and projects by the Serpentine Arts Technologies department focused on Al, and we could not be more pleased than to collaborate with him.”

Taking the data that surrounds us as primary material, and using a neural network, a method of Al that is inspired by the human brain, as a collaborator, Anadol creates compelling visualisations of our digitised memories and expands the possibilities of interdisciplinary arts. His work explores the meaning of humanity in the era of artificial intelligence as well as the challenges that ubiquitous computing has brought forth. He investigates the profound ways in which the dominance of technology in our daily lives alters our perception and experience of time and space.

Refik Anadol, Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, 2024. Installation view, Serpentine North. Photo: Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy Refik Anadol Studio and Serpentine.

The exhibition is part of the New Alliances strand of the Serpentine programme which aims to widen audiences through engagement and collaborations. Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive is presented in collaboration with 10F1, led by patron and philanthropist Ryan Zurrer, which partners with forward thinking artists and institutions by contextualising and supporting art of the digital age.

Since 2014, Serpentine has developed Al projects with Cécile B. Evans, James Bridle, Jenna Sutela, Ian Cheng, Pierre Huyghe and Hito Steyerl that have prefigured subsequent technological developments in the field. The establishment of Creative Al Lab in collaboration with King’s College London in 2019 offered a space for research into Al systems from artistic and cultural perspectives and interests, generating a solid foundation for thought leadership on this topic as Al gains increasing mainstream attention in 2024 which will also see Serpentine Arts Technologies develop a new Al project with Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst later in the year.

Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive is curated by Claude Adjil, Curator at Large, with Liz Stumpf, Assistant Curator and produced by Brittany Stewart, Creative Producer and Halime Ozdemir, Production Manager.

Refik Anadol, Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, 2024. Installation view, Serpentine North. Photo: Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy Refik Anadol Studio and Serpentine.

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