Among the aisles and booths of ARCO, Madrid’s contemporary art fair, lurks the apparition of a man who looms large over the history of modern art. Picasso’s lifeless body forms the basis for a work by the Spanish artist Eugenio Merino, titled Aquí Murió Picasso (Picasso Died Here), news 2017. Rather than being based on Picasso’s actual corpse, it draws inspiration from the image of the artist that many associate with him: the blue-striped Breton shirt, white linen pants, espadrilles. The work is also quite literally larger than life. Picasso was said to stand 5 feet 4 inches tall, whereas the sculpture is just over 6 feet long. Related Articles According to the Spanish publication El País , the sculpture “managed to concentrate groups of onlookers” on opening day. La Vanguardia described the work as “death as a souvenir,” one of the “main centers of attraction for selfie addicts” and the “safe way get likes on Instagram.” Curated by Los Interventores and presented by ADN Gallery, the sculpture was conceived as a critique of mass tourism, the art fair industrial complex, and the general selfie-fication of the cultural sphere. The work all but begs fairgoers to snap pictures of themselves next to Picasso’s body. “The sculpture is basically a Tourist Attraction we made based on the Dean MacCannell’s 1976 book The Tourist ,” Merino wrote in an email to ARTnews. “In the book, the author explains the characteristics of an attraction, and for us, it was basically what the art world and the art fairs have turned into. “Institutions and companies wash their image in culture,” Merino added, “that’s why it’s important that this work presents itself, openly, as an object to be sold but also from which to extract symbolic value. A place where a ‘tourist art consumer’ can have its selfie…a souvenir that reminds us they were here, where Picasso died. Obviously, [it’s] as fake as any tourist attraction.” The work comes in an edition of three and sells for a tidy €45,000. ARCO runs through February 26.
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Atomic Heart could have been the next BioShock
Atomic Heart wears its BioShock influences on its sleeve. Both games place first-person adventure mechanics in elaborate utopias gone wrong. Both feature verbose, bombastic leaders dead set on making their grandiose dreams into reality; combat repertoires mix traditional weapons with in-game “magic” (instead of BioShock’s Plasmids or BioShock Infinite’s Vigors, we have Atomic Heart’s Polymers); a confused, amnesiac main character has mysterious ties to said leader, forming the narrative crux.
Yet, crucially, Atomic Heart fails to nail down what made the BioShock series — as divisive as it is — work: a keen laser-focus on a few central themes.
Instead of carefully weaving a textured dimension to its plot and gameplay, Atomic Heart developer Mundfish cast its net wide. And by embracing so much, it held onto very little. This lack of focus, whether intentional or not, on careful narrative threading in favor of paint bombs of set pieces results in a vague sketch of BioShock rather than a detailed reimagining. None of this is to mention the chum of its writing bloodying the waters of its world, or the incessant whining and unjustified antagonism of its unlikeable protagonist, all within a haphazard mess of levels that needed more editing, not more variety.
While my initial impressions of the game were (and remain) highly favorable, and I do recommend trying it on Game Pass — just not buying it — I cannot help but be underwhelmed by the consistency of the game’s inconsistencies. While the retro Soviet “aesthetic” is prominent, that bombastic, beautiful opening theme is abandoned in favor of occasional notes. It’s symphony more than solo.
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Image: Mundfish/Focus Entertainment, 4Divinity
This disease of diversity seeps into the bones of gameplay too. While Atomic Heart’s approach is initially fun — it jumps from areas replete with plant zombies to spaces with hulking monsters — it quickly feels like the designers took the kitchen sink approach. There is no connection between these sections of the world, and as a result, the game feels more like a patchwork, rather than several strong ideas that are gradually iterated upon in each subsequent level.
Crucial parts of the game take place in underground facilities — interesting, initially haunting, beautiful corridors — but when Mundfish thrust me into Atomic Heart’s open world, I actually considered turning the game off.
In the game’s semi-open world, the murky depths of an empire’s fragmented failings are abandoned in favor of a garish pastoral environment. The space is wide open, and filled with security cameras and robots and machines that make more robots when alerted by said security cameras. Everything you spent hours learning is abandoned — Atomic Heart’s open world might as well be a completely different game. Filled with robots that are endlessly repaired and swarms of bullet-sponge enemies that are positioned at almost every corner, these open-world areas are some of the worst-designed spaces I’ve encountered.
Image: Mundfish/Focus Entertainment, 4Divinity
Aside from playing host to numerous useful crafting materials, I advise — if you insist on continuing — skipping the open world altogether. The game is stingy with ammo which you’re better off saving for corridor fights and boss battles.
After all, let me repeat: Atomic Heart’s open-world robots endlessly respawn. I cannot fathom this design choice or why it is so antagonistic to your presence. Even FromSoftware games, famous for their worlds’ antagonism toward players, semi-permanently kill enemies.
But the open-world design is illustrative of the wider point: The game is trying to do everything and therefore wins at almost nothing. BioShock had big beautiful spaces, but did not inject such design into gameplay — there was no need to diversify its focus, as it stuck to one theme and played it. Atomic Heart, in its attempt at complexity, spins a thousand plates and drops many. If the developers had hewed more closely to BioShock, it would have stuck to its underground facilities, playing carefully to its core theme. It would have made a sometimes enjoyable game into a memorable one.
Woody Harrelson Floats COVID Vax Conspiracy on ‘SNL’
Woody Harrelson raised more than a few eyebrows during his “Saturday Night Live” appearance … this after the actor went all conspiratorial on COVID vaccines … something he’s done before. Harrelson leaned in on COVID as this week’s SNL host, delivering a rambling opening monologue about smoking a joint and parking himself against a tree in Central Park while reading the “craziest script.” After 6 minutes, Woody got to the point, and it was sumpin’ …“So the movie goes like this: The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes. And people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over.” He wrapped it up this way …“I threw the fitness script away. I mean, who was going to believe that crazy idea? Being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day.” Thank you, @nbcsnl, for Woody Harrelson’s insipid anti-vax monologue. Who are going to have guest host next week, Scott Baio? Rob Schneider? Kevin Sorbo? Maybe invite Kanye back while you’re at it.
— Lee Goldberg (@LeeGoldberg) February 26, 2023 @LeeGoldberg Social media wasn’t amused. TV producer, Lee Goldberg tweeted, “Thank you, @nbcsnl, for Woody Harrelson’s insipid anti-vax monologue.” A second person wrote, “That’s NOT COOL! I lost the best mother figure to me & my sister that we had who died only 4hrs after contracting the f***ing virus!” Another person chimed in, “This Guy IS a joke.” As you may know, Woody has previously floated conspiracy theories about the COVID pandemic, also calling mask-wearing “absurd” and bragging that he never contracted the virus because he’s “internally clean.” He also suggested 5G cellular networks were responsible for the spread of COVID, but he later deleted the post.
Iranian currency hits new bottom amid anti-government protests – National
Iran’s currency fell to a new record low on Sunday, plunging to 600,000 to the dollar for the first time as the effects of nationwide anti-government protests and the breakdown of the 2015 nuclear deal continued to roil the economy. Story continues below advertisement
Iranians have formed long lines in front of exchange offices in recent days, hoping to acquire increasingly scarce dollars. Many have seen their life savings evaporate as the local currency has deteriorated. Inflation reached 53.4% in January, up from 41.4 per cent two years ago, according to Iran’s statistics center.
The dire economic conditions have contributed to widespread anger at the government, but have also forced many Iranians to focus on putting food on the table rather than engaging in high-risk political activism amid a fierce crackdown on dissent.
Iran’s currency was trading at 32,000 rials to the dollar when it signed the 2015 nuclear accord with world powers. The agreement lifted international sanctions in return for strict limits on and surveillance of its nuclear activities.
The agreement unraveled when then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from it and restored crippling sanctions. Iran responded by ramping up its enrichment of uranium, and now has enough for “several” atomic weapons if it chooses to develop them, according to the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog.
Iran insists its nuclear program is entirely peaceful, but experts say it had a nuclear weapons program until 2003 and is developing a breakout capacity that could allow it to quickly build an atomic weapon should it decide to do so. Trending Now Story continues below advertisement 0:41 Iran supreme leader pardons ‘tens of thousands’ of prisoners linked to mass protests: state media The Biden administration supports a return to the 2015 agreement, but negotiations hit an impasse last year and appear to have ground to a halt. Iran has further angered Western countries by supplying armed drones to Russia that have been used in its invasion of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Iran has seen waves of anti-government protests since the September death of a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who was detained by the morality police for allegedly violating Iran’s strict Islamic dress code.
The protests rapidly escalated into calls for the overthrow of Iran’s ruling Shiite clerics, marking a major challenge to their four-decade rule. Iran’ has blamed the unrest on foreign powers, casting it as an extension of the sanctions, without providing gaming evidence.
The Trump administration had hoped that maximum sanctions would force Iran to make major concessions on its nuclear activities, its ballistic missile program and its military involvement in countries across the Middle East, but it has yet to do so.
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Court Loss Pressures Sweden To Reassess Permit Needs
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