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Daniel C. Richardson
Daniel C. Richardson is the Century’s art director.
Karen Brummund’s Performing Harmony
As part of a spring 2023 residency sponsored by the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts, Alabama artist Karen Brummund worked closely with the people of Grace Churc...
August 28, 2023
From Meg Hitchcock’s Illuminations
(clockwise from left) Emerge from Invisibility and Become Visible; Of His Vast Almighty Head; The Hundreds and Thousands of My Forms; The Ferryman; The Nine Eyes Widely Opened
July 7, 2023
Vertical churches, by Richard Silver
Photographer Richard Silver began his unique practice of capturing church interiors in a vertical panoramic format in New York City in 2012....
March 16, 2022
Surface Incidents, by Cherith Lundin
According to Cherith Lundin, the handcrafted artist book Surface Incidents (created this year in an edition of 50) began from an intentional reshuffling of some of the piles of raw materia...
November 22, 2021
Class dismissed
From its opening sequence, The Emperor's Club, set in an eastern prep school for boys in the early 1970s, is behind the cinematic eight ball, and it knows it....
February 7, 2003
Quick takes
Based on John Bayley's two memoirs about his marriage to novelist Iris Murdoch, Iris is in almost all respects expertly done....
March 12, 2002
Homecoming
Director Wes Anderson's vision in his latest and (so far) greatest film, The Royal Tenenbaums, is so singular that it is difficult to isolate its individual elements....
January 29, 2002
Idea-dropping
Most of Richard Linklater's previous films, such as Dazed and Confused, Slacker and Before Sunrise, have enjoyed great success by holding up the mirror to 20-somethings' ...
November 20, 2001
On the run
Endurance (1999), directed by Leslie WoodheadRun Lola Run (1998), directed by Tom Tykwer...
November 2, 1999
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