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• Dara Birnbaum obituary

  12-05-2025 18:06
  Pioneering American video, installation and media artist who used television as her enduring materialDara Birnbaum’s reinvention of video art was born of frustration. In 1977 the American artist was reading Screen magazine, then full of academic essays deconstructing the language of cinema.While she was keen on applying psychoanalysis to understand moving image, and felt a strong kinship with the burgeoning feminist discourse, Birnbaum, who has died aged 78, became exasperated by the lack
  
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• ‘I add the human touch’: the beautiful, bespoke work of Berlin’s last cinema poster artist

  12-05-2025 06:00
  Götz Valien recreates promotional adverts in giant hand-painted images that add a distinct pop art flourishGötz Valien is Berlin’s last movie poster artist, for more than three decades earning a modest living producing giant hand-painted film adverts to hang at the city’s most beloved historic cinemas – a craft he says will probably die with him, at least in western Europe. The studios’ own promotional posters serve as a template, but Austrian-born Valien, 65, a
  
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