Opening scene from ‘The Player’, by Robert Altman (1992)
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Francis Alÿs
Francis Alÿs, stills from ‘Tornado’ (2000-10)
Since 2000, Alÿs has visited an area in the Mexican countryside where tornadoes occur, and has filmed his attempts to run into the eye of the storms.
John Baldessari
John Baldessari with Ear-Couch and Nose-Scones, designed for the Mies van der Rohe’s Haus Lange of 1928, in Krefeld, Germany. (2009)
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter, ‘Two Sculptures for a Room by Palermo’ (1971)
Two plaster heads, painted with gray oil paint, one a self-portrait of Richter, the other a portrait of the German artist Blinky Palermo. The heads face each other across the room, with eyes closed as if each artist is actually looking inward.
