Animal videos are shared online nowadays at a pace that can be overwhelming.
Once in a while, though, a video offers a unique and unforgettable message.
Such is the case with a short video of the chimpanzee named Mama, curled up in her enclosure at the Royal Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem, Holland. Shot in 2016 — but only now coming into wide circulation (I saw it for the first time two weeks ago) — the film shows an elderly ape too weak to eat or drink. Read More...
Jones on artCulturePicasso painted the most compelling antiwar images in history. Yet, with his own life in turmoil, a current of brutality electrified his art. Violence, argues Jonathan Jones, was his greatest themePablo Picasso was a tender, gentle painter who - almost uniquely in modern art - tried to find a visual vocabulary for love. He coined the international symbol of peace, the dove, and depicted children with bold innocence. Picasso painted Guernica, every facet of whose compacted horrors expresses his absolute disgust for war. Read More...
It was about time Winston Duke donned the cowl. We just didn’t expect it would be like this. On Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the Us and Black Panther actor will play Bruce Wayne. Only, we won’t get to see his face — and not just because of the bat mask. Duke will be voice-acting as Wayne in the upcoming Spotify podcast Batman Unburied, written by The Dark Knight screenwriter David S. Read More...
