Category Archives: art

The Art and Politics of Painting

Posted on February 28, 2021 by zev

A new documentary project about the history of art, linking painting, the artist and the social context in which it was made. Continue reading →

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Vermeer’s Imagination

Posted on June 27, 2018 by zev

as I’m not currently working on any food and sustainability related documentary at present – though more are on the horizon – I now have a window of opportunity to start one on Vermeer that I’ve been thinking about for quite a while. Continue reading →

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Art and Ego: Rembrandt and Hirst

Posted on March 30, 2015 by zev

Later on, Vermeer would make extraordinary universes out of small rooms in the provincial town of Delft, but Rembrandt needed to leave his native Leiden for Amsterdam in order to drape his sitters in exotic costumes and enjoy the worldly … Continue reading →

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Unstuck in Time

Posted on February 24, 2015 by zev

He sits there lifesize or perhaps larger-than-life, still frozen almost 50 years later, with the vacant stare of a witness struck dumb and nothing at all like the numerous small reproductions seen so often in books and magazines. Don McCullin … Continue reading →

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