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Boston Globe
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
An art fair of a different vibe opens in North Adams
So she and two like-minded colleagues from the Boston art world, gallery owner Yng-Ru Chen and artist . The biannual event is thought to be the first ambitious fair for commercial art galleries in New England. Advertisement Arrival will be more intimate than most other fairs: Exhibiting galleries will set up in rooms at Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The Tourists hotel will be the site of the Arrival Art Fair. (Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff) Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff Admission is free, though Arrival was conceived in 2023, when Chen, who owns Advertisement Chen was looking for 'a more level playing field for exhibitors,' she said, 'because there are so many exorbitant costs associated with traveling and shipping and then accommodations for exhibitors, while you're also paying for a booth.' Arrival is a seat-of-the-pants operation compared to behemoths like Art Basel and The North Adams fair, with 36 exhibitors from around the U.S., offers a broad price range, with art books and limited edition prints starting in the hundreds. Delaney Kennedy, "White," exhibited by Jessica Silverman Gallery at Arrival Art Fair. (Jessica Silverman Gallery) Jessica Silverman Gallery Lacouture, Chen, and Galender Meyer formed an LLC, which in this first iteration as an incubator project has accepted donations. One of those donors, the Cambridge-based 'We need opportunities for artists, and we really need an ecosystem to support them,' said Wagner. Arrival, she added, is 'an innovative model, and I think it's really invested in the region's cultural economy.' Opting not to create a nonprofit left the three founders, who haven't been paying themselves, able to pursue their own ideas without having to answer to a board. 'We really wanted to have our own agency,' Lacouture said. 'All three of us are mothers. All three of us have full time jobs. We wanted to have direct impact as we went.' Advertisement North Adams seemed an ideal spot. Chen and Galender Meyer attended Williams College together, and Lacouture lives in North Adams part time. With "Drum Major" by artist Cindy Elizabeth will be exhibited by Martha's at Arrival Art Fair. (Meredith Williams) Meredith Williams 'There's so many well-known curators, art historians, and museum directors who graduated from Williams and are always happy to come back,' Chen said. Historically, contemporary art has been slow to thrive in New England. In the last 20 years, Mass MoCa, the Institute of Contemporary Art, and other museums have turned that around. 'A lot of exhibitors intentionally wanted to come and do Arrival because they know so much about the strength of the museums in Massachusetts, and also the curators,' Chen said. Commercial galleries have been another story. If Boston is known for its art schools and its museums, commercial galleries have struggled. Some say Arrival may be an opportunity to give the New England gallery scene a shot in the arm. A painting by Elizabeth King Stanton, "Ignoring The Weeds," will be exhibited by Abigail Ogilvy Gallery at Arrival Art Fair. (Abigail Ogilvy Gallery) Abigail Ogilvy Gallery Gallery owner who ran a Boston gallery until last year but is now based in Los Angeles, lauded the contemporary art scene in Boston but said the city 'often acts in isolation of its peers. If you want something to happen in Boston you have to build it,' she said. Advertisement She will be showing art at Arrival and said she sees the new fair 'bringing the best of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and more, together to Massachusetts where in collaboration, galleries are much stronger.' Arrival's co-founders hope gallerists and art lovers alike will network, find community, and enjoy themselves. 'We want people to feel taken care of,' said Chen. 'Maybe that's the mothering in us.' ARRIVAL ART FAIR At Tourists, 915 State Rd., North Adams, June 13-15. Admission free, registration required. Cate McQuaid can be reached at
Axios
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Sci-fi movies that'll make you cry about your dad
Want to feel emotional about fatherhood this Father's Day? Watch sci-fi. The big picture: Sci-fi films often use fantastical plots to explore something deeply human: the love and heartbreak of the parent-child bond. Zoom in:"The Empire Strikes Back" is about interplanetary war — and unresolved daddy issues. "Interstellar" is about secret space travel — and the grief of being a dad watching your kids grow up. "Contact" is about extraterrestrial communication — and the power of a father-daughter bond. The list goes on. And there are plenty of sci-fi titles about motherhood, too — " Arrival" and " Terminator 2," to name a couple. Zoom out: What better way to capture the vastness of the parent-child connection than through the language of the cosmos? And at the same time, "parenthood is a very clean, direct way" to make stories with fairies, aliens or multiple dimensions "emotionally recognizable," says TV writer Marc Bernardin ("Star Trek: Picard," "Carnival Row"). "It also kind of lumps in with the feeling of being lost in a world bigger than you are, and trying to find some sense of comfort in that loss," he tells Axios. You don't have to be a parent to connect with the themes. FWIW: George Lucas wasn't a dad when he made the first couple of "Star Wars" films, and James Cameron didn't have children before the first two "Terminator" movies came out. Between the lines: There's a pattern worth noting. Many of these stories are haunted by loss — often a parent or child. You already know this if you watch enough movies and, in Bernardin's apt wording, "start to see the code of the matrix." From the writer's perspective, when you're more than 30 minutes into the movie about to crest into the second act, "we need to propel our hero out of the comfort of the womb," Bernardin says, speaking metaphorically. "How do we do that? Somebody's gotta go." Carly's thought bubble: Last year, pregnant and weepy during a sci-fi movie marathon, I realized how deeply the genre explores parent-child bonds. "Arrival" and "Dune: Part Two" are now two of my favorite films. (Yes, I'm a Denis Villeneuve fan.) The former is my biggest personal tearjerker, and I'm convinced that the latter — which I saw in theaters twice — encouraged my baby to kick for the first time. We're re-watching "Interstellar" for my husband's first Father's Day. And this line from Matthew McConaughey's character lingers with me: "Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future." OK, one more, from Anne Hathaway's character:"Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can't understand it." Father's Day movie picks Let screenwriter Colby Day ("Spaceman," "In the Blink of an Eye" out this year) be your personal Blockbuster salesperson with five of his recommendations for Father's Day sci-fi films: 1. "Contact" (1997) " Based on a story from one of the fathers of modern science writing, Carl Sagan, this explores the intersection of faith and science. The hero's entire journey is at its core the story of a father-daughter relationship." 2. "Children of Men" (2006) " What would our world look like without any children? Pretty bad! Clive Owen plays a reluctant hero and reluctant father figure in a sci-fi movie that also has enough action for the dads." 3. "Interstellar" (2014) "Our generation's 'The Odyssey,' a science fiction myth of epic proportions about a man leaving his family behind to hopefully save the world, and in the process nearly losing himself." 4. "The Mitchells vs. the Machines" (2021) " A really special father-daughter depiction and family film that also happens to have evil robots." 5. "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" (2001)
Daily Record
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
'One of the best biopics ever' streaming on Prime Video director says is greatest war movie
The acclaimed director was choosing some of his favourite films An Oscar-nominated director has revealed his pick for one of the greatest war films ever produced. Earlier this year, Denis Villeneuve had the opportunity to visit the Criterion Closet and share his favourite films and recommendations with fans. His selection included films that have inspired him as a filmmaker, as well as his favourite works from renowned directors. Villeneuve is recognised for directing films such as Sicario, Arrival, Prisoners, Blade Runner 2049, and Dune Parts One and Two. His work has earned him numerous Oscar and BAFTA nominations, including a Best Director nod for Arrival, reports the Express. The Criterion Closet is a physical or sometimes mobile space created for events, housing every title distributed by The Criterion collection. Reportedly home to at least 1,700 films, celebrities are often invited to select their favourites while being filmed. During his visit earlier this year, Villeneuve's picks included The Three Colours trilogy directed by Krzysztof Kielowski, Lars von Trier's Europa, Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, Satyricon by Fellini, and Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear. The director also expressed his appreciation for documentaries, recommending Le Mystère Picasso from Henri-Georges Clouzot. Additionally, he highlighted a film about a historical figure which, in his opinion, ranks among the best war movies. He remarked: "Che, with the great Benicio del Toro. For me, it's by far one of the best movies about war, about what it is to be a leader of men." Expanding on his thoughts, he stated: "The research behind this movie is astonishing, and I absolutely adore the directing. I think it's a movie that is underrated. Honestly, it's a masterful work by Soderbergh. My favourite movie from Soderbergh." Intriguingly, he hinted as well at a possible source of inspiration for his own monumental interpretation of the Dune novels when examining the double DVD boxset, noting: "Part one, part two. Maybe there's an influence there. I don't know." The 2008 epic biographical flick Che unfolded the story of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara and came in a nearly five-hour-long two-part format. For those intrigued to delve into what Villeneuve extolled, they will be pleased to find both chapters available for streaming on Prime Video. Under the directorial prowess of Steven Soderbergh, the film starred Benicio del Toro as Che and strayed from the conventional linear storytelling, instead opting to weave together various segments from Che's life journey. One enthusiast hailed the film, asserting: " One of the best biopics ever. It should have won Oscar." A separate individual praised it further saying: "Gorgeously shot, superbly acted, and poignantly relevant." For those inclined to watch, 'Che Parts One and Two' are streamable now via Prime Video.
Forbes
29-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
GenAI In The Supply Chain: Predicting Disruption As A Competitive Edge
Sadagopan S, Executive Vice President, Global Head of SaaS & Commercial Applications, Digital Business Services at HCLTech. getty What makes extraterrestrials invincible in the movie Edge of Tomorrow or so superior in Arrival? It is because they could foresee the future. Today, we may not have the technology to know the future, but we have the tools and means to guess it with a high degree of precision. Artificial intelligence (AI)—particularly, generative AI (GenAI)—is the key. It gives us the ability to analyze both structured and unstructured data in real time and predict probable future scenarios. And, needless to say, one practice that needs it the most is supply chain management. We know how supply chains are and have always been. Any disturbance in the fabric of space-time seems to have a direct impact on the supply chain. No wonder supply chain managers have been active in the adoption of technologies that can help them foresee risks. The same is the case with GenAI. A study found that 72% of supply chain executives have deployed GenAI, with most of them already registering modest productivity and revenue gains. GenAI harnesses the latent potential of traditional AI. Let's look at how it does so and whether its applicability in supply chain management is hyped or real. GenAI is particularly helpful in predicting potential supply chain disruptions. Traditionally, organizations have relied on historical sales data, market trends and subjective human intuition to forecast risk scenarios in supply chains. However, compared to traditional methods, GenAI is more effective in accounting for complex factors—economic fluctuations, shifts in consumer behavior, geopolitical tensions, weather conditions, social media trends, etc.—in real time. As a result, it is more accurate in its predictions. This predictive capability of GenAI enables us to anticipate challenges with higher precision, chart models of risk scenarios more comprehensively and develop contingency plans that reduce the impact of disruptions. We can make proactive adjustments to our procurement and inventory management strategies to mitigate expected disruptions. Supply chains typically involve far too many touchpoints and interdependencies to allow confident decision-making. As mentioned above, there are myriad factors—international transportation bottlenecks, natural disasters and supplier insolvency, among others—that need to be considered simultaneously in real time to decide what's best for the business. To be able to revise decisions and adapt to the circumstances, deep visibility and insights into all the factors is imperative. However, traditional methodologies for imbuing agility in decision-making entail considerable human subjectivity, which lowers the probability of achieving the desired outcomes. GenAI can simulate all probable risk scenarios and recommend different courses of action to avoid or mitigate each of them. This data-driven approach to decision-making gives us the necessary foresight for short-term, medium-term and long-term strategies, minimizing the vulnerabilities in the supply chain. The impact of GenAI on supply chains is not a theoretical concept or in the beta phase. There are many organizations across industries that are leveraging the technology to overcome supply chain roadblocks and achieve higher consistency and certainty. For instance, a major logistics company in the U.S. has been leveraging GenAI to optimize in-warehouse pick-up routes. Its GenAI platform accounts for fuel consumption, delivery priorities, weather variations and other factors to recommend the best route. The space and material handling optimization thus achieved has improved the company's productivity and reduced its operational expenditure. Besides, the GenAI solution also analyzes the company's trade network and recommends improvements accordingly. Similarly, a utility company is using GenAI for sewer pipe inspection and prioritization of maintenance tasks. The solution analyzes videos of the insides of the pipes to detect cracks, deformities, root intrusions and debris deposits, as well as structural defects and joint misalignments. The GenAI-enabled software also classifies defects in terms of severity. And whenever operators override the GenAI's classification, the solution learns from the interaction and updates its priority index to generate more accurate results. Also, a globally renowned pizza brand has incorporated GenAI into its analytics tool for more accurate demand forecasts. As a result, the company has improved its product availability and delivery timeliness, thereby enhancing customer experience. Deploying GenAI to achieve superior supply chain resilience is no mean feat. Irrespective of the industry, there are certain imperatives that you must fulfill to leverage the technology to its potential. The use of GenAI is poised to expand throughout the supply chain landscape amid an increasingly complex and tumultuous global business environment. Considering how actively supply chain managers are adopting the technology and improving use cases, they will achieve hyper-efficiency, resiliency and sustainability in the ecosystem soon. Similarly, those who are trailing in the GenAI adoption race or have not considered it yet may soon find themselves lagging too far behind to catch up. Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Do I qualify?
Mint
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
‘To Make a Home with You': A group show that makes space for queer solidarity
A group exhibition at Art and Charlie, a contemporary space in Bandra, Mumbai, comes just ahead of Pride Month in June. Titled To Make a Home with You, the show curated by Mihir Thakkar brings together five young artists—Aksh Diwan Garg, Deepak Dhiman, Lakshya Bhargava, Namrata Arjun and Zoya Lobo—from diverse backgrounds. The curator and artists identify as queer and their visual reflections in the show stem from deeply personal and lived experiences. Thakkar, who is making his curatorial debut with the show, would like to break this notion that queerness sits outside of mainstream society. 'I want to push back against attempts at 'othering' queer people as a subculture," he adds. 'Queers are not different from heteronormative people in seeking a support system in friendships, which offer them a safe space and a sense of belonging. And this is an aspect that the show focuses on." There are some interesting interpretations and renditions in the show. For instance, Namrata Arjun's Arrival (after Masaccio) (2025) critically examines the early Renaissance artist's work The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. In Masaccio's fresco, which can be viewed in the church of Santa Maria Del Carmine in Florence, Adam covers his face and Eve her breasts in shame as an angel with a sword drives them out of heaven. In contrast, Arjun's version represents the two naked figures as non-binary and liberated. 'I have attempted to erase the gender markers of the Biblical story by doing a queer retelling of it." she shares. Also read: Can AI replace children's book illustrators? The arms are the most direct expression of this radical subversion—instead of being self-censoring, Adam's arms reach out to Eve as an invocation of mutual trust and solidarity. It is an assertion for acceptance and a refusal to be shamed. 23-year-old Garg recently completed a residency at Space Studio Baroda, which is an independent not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting artists and developing creative practices. His practice is rooted in figuration and is often autobiographical. Through his playfully titled paintings, Garg explores ideas of belonging through intimate yet public social settings like restaurants which create spaces for togetherness for him. The compositions, rendered in warm palettes, are framed cinematically to cue emotional drama but in a subtle and playful way. One of the works, Mosquito Bite (2025), is inspired by an actual experience that took place when he was out with his close friends. 'It's a humorous take on how we sometimes refer to love bites as mosquito bites when they are exposed but everyone understands what they actually are," reveals Garg. The characters in his paintings are usually women. 'I often explore the sense of femininity within myself. Also, as someone who grew up surrounded by my mother and elder sisters, I have learned their values," he adds. Also read: Lounge Loves: The Looksmith, 'Thudarum' and more Deepak Dhiman's paintings Outcome-ing and We Thrive Seeing You Live (2025) focus on the cathartic moments of compassion when he came out to his family. They underscore the importance of such vulnerable moments in queer journeys and the criticality of support from loved ones. Meanwhile aspiring photojournalist Zoya Lobo's photographs reveal tender moments of kinship between friends in the transgender community. Her own life is quite inspiring—she begged on trains and brought a camera, ended up learning photography and is now finding recognition for her work as a media person. Her photographs create a sense of family within the community and reflect her efforts to fight for their rights. In contrast, Lakshya Bhargava's works are marked by absence of people in domestic spaces. Rather, it is the objects that stand as personifications of intimate relationships in terms of the residual memory they hold through shared acts of care. The objects are often paired in his works, be it a couple of t-shirts in After Wash (2025) or a pair of spoons in Morning Bed (2025). 'I was also thinking about what happens to these spaces once we have gone our different ways. There's a sadness in imagining them unattended, and yet that impermanence feels very real," he says. For Bhargava, who is currently pursuing a master's degree from the Slade School of Fine Arts in London, being away from home has also encouraged him to seek new forms of belonging. Sharing domestic chores with fellow students have made him feel at home and imprints of these have found their way into the works he has exhibited. Also read: 'A Show of Hands': Celebrating the generous mentorship of artist Gieve Patel There is also a concerted effort to activate the space for the exhibition. The restored Portuguese-style house, which now acts as the gallery space, will be hosting an evening of comedy by members of Queer Rated Comedy on 17 May and a day later, the KASHISH Pride Film Festival team will showcase a set of short films, followed by sessions with the cast and crew. In India, in the last one year, there have been a couple of notable shows drawing attention to queer journeys. This show's impact lies in its building of empathy towards vulnerabilities and shared moments within the queer community. It is an element that would also appeal to the heteronormative audience at large. 'To Make a Home with You' can be viewed at Art and Charlie Gallery, Mumbai till 8 June. Anindo Sen is an independent art and culture writer.
