Nadie como Godard

Did you know that, according to director Chris Columbus, Robin Williams improvised so much during the filming of Mrs. Doubtfire that the studio had enough footage to release PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 versions of the movie? Or that Robin ad-libbed all his lines in Good Morning, Vietnam because the DJ the movie was based on didn’t really do comedy during his shows? Robin Williams, American Master looks at Robin’s seventy movies, from his earliest appearance in Can I Do It…’Til I Need Glasses? to his final posthumous voice-only appearance in Absolutely Anything. Each film is discussed...

El escritor venezolano Gustavo Guerrero re ne tres ensayos que constituyen un amplio recorrido a trav s de la historia de la poes a l rica. Apoy ndose en los trabajos de Claudio Guill n y de G rard Genette, el autor traza la trayectoria del g nero l rico a trav s del tiempo, ofreciendo al lector la evoluci n del concepto de poes a l rica, desde sus or genes griegos hasta la po tica prerrom ntica.

A manera d'antologia, es presenten al lector uns materials textuals sens dubte rellevants històricament, amb un fil conductor comú que subratlla el nou enfocament que el segle XVIII va concedir a les qüestions de l'àmbit de 'l'Estètica'. Aquesta nova disciplina il·lustrada, va intentar sistematitzar, des dels seus inicis oficials (Baumgarten, 1750), termes, entre l'arc de la teoria i de la pràctica, a primera vista dispars com art, tècnica, bellesa, gust, crítica, judici, poètica, imitació, expressió, belles arts o belle nature, per citar només alguns dels articles que la...

Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area’s indigenous cultures. The collection includes a wealth of exquisitely made traditional weavings, many that are now considered rare. The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca details a joint project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico to conserve the collection and to document current use of textile traditions in daily life and...