Artist Shai Azoulay Falls Asleep at the Canvas

Shai Azoulay’s Dream (2008). If the sleep of reason creates monsters, does the sleep of creativity create … paintings? Here, in Shai Azoulay’s Dream — an MFA-appropriate version of the Brothers Grimm’s “The Elves and the Shoemaker” — an artist snoozes in his atelier while little paint sprites (pigment figments?) amass around a pristine canvas. Whether they’re about to pounce or leave it in a state of Malevichean whiteness is up in the air, but let’s say they go to town.

Arturo Castro on Alternatino and the Power of Blind Optimism

Arturo Castro. It’s been over ten years since Arturo Castro moved to the United States to pursue acting, and the idea of him finding regular performance work as a native Guatemalan — let alone having his own show based around him one day — often seemed impossible based on how few Latino people were on television. “It was really hard to get TV auditions because there aren’t a lot of roles for people that look like me,” he says.

Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon Hook Up for Netflix Rom-com Your Place or Mine

Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher. Ashton Kutcher will have to clean up good for his new role opposite Reese Witherspoon in the Netflix rom-com Your Place or Mine. Aline Brosh McKenna of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend wrote the script and will make her feature-film directorial debut with the project, per Deadline. Witherspoon and Kutcher star as two best friends on opposite coasts who swap homes for a week and … [cheesy rom-com twist to be disclosed].

Ask a Cold War Expert: How Realistic Is The Americans?

THE AMERICANS – Safe House – Episode 9 (Airs Wednesday, April 3, 10:00 pm e/p) – Pictured: (L-R) Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings, Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings. Most TV spy shows don’t exactly strive for realism, which is one thing that makes The Americans so intriguing. The FX drama, about undercover KGB agents masquerading as American suburbanites, was directly inspired by the Russian spy ring bust of 2010. But instead of crafting a present-day thriller, creators Joe Weisberg (a former CIA operative) and Joel Fields chose to set their show in 1981, placing agents Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) in a minefield of Cold War tensions with nary a cell phone in sight.

ASTROs Rocky Leaves the Group After Ending Contract

Rocky, who’s a member of the K-pop group ASTRO, announced he is leaving his exclusive contract with the agency Fantagio and leaving the group after seven years. According to Soompi, he decided to end his contract with Fantagio and his participation after a “deep discussion” with the agency. This comes two months after four of his bandmates, JinJin, Cha Eun Woo, Moonbin, and Sanha, all renewed their contracts.

Atlanta Recap: Happy Birthday, Lottie

Atlanta Snipe Hunt Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Atlanta Snipe Hunt Season 4 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » To celebrate Lottie’s sixth birthday, Earn, Van, and Lottie embark on a camping trip in the woods. With a show like Atlanta, watching a Black family enter the woods to go camping immediately put me on edge, especially after season three.

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Austin Butlers New Favorite Word Seems to Be Scouser

Given how many interviews happen during a press tour, it’s normal for an actor promoting a new film to do a little recycling. Maybe you’ll hear them repeat the same thing about their parents, or a funny moment on set, or the 100 people that could be in a room. While promoting his new movie The Bikeriders, out now, Austin Butler already seems to have found a new favorite word: “Scouser,” which refers to someone from Liverpool.

Author Charlaine Harris on the End of True Blood, Viewer Backlash, and Fabulous Lafayette

Novelist Charlaine Harris. Warning: Spoilers for the series finale of True Blood ahead, as well as for Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse novels on which the show was based. Did you spot Charlaine Harris in the series finale of True Blood? While Eric and Pam shot their New Blood infomercial, a woman sat at the console, providing the sound mixing. Of course, that same woman provided the basis for the television series to begin with — as the author of The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, otherwise known as the Sookie Stackhouse books.

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