Daily Archives: 6 March 2009

Hype: Future Shorts at Gloria

film, tv, video, hype & linkageBy Matthias Wivel 6 March 2009

For our Danish readers. This coming Tuesday and Wednesday will see a number of shortfilm screenings under the Future Shorts umbrella at Gloria, City Hall Square, Copenhagen. The programme includes works by such greats as Kaige Chen and Abbas Kiarostami, acting as locomotives for a bunch of films by emerging directors, one of which is…

Likeness of Leonardo?

commentary and criticism, pictorial artsBy Matthias Wivel 6 March 2009

Last weekend, the discovery of what is claimed to be a new Leonardo drawing was announced on Italian TV. With the help of digital imaging, it has emerged from behind the text of the “Codex on the Flight of Birds”, held at Turin. The proud discoverers suggest that it is actually a partial self-portrait, citing…