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5 days ago · The end of the Siren’s song is death. In his solo exhibition organized by Transit Gallery, Nikita Kadan juxtaposes the Siren with ancient Greek treasures that depict her image, examples of which were looted by the Russians in the occupied territory, and with air raid alarms; the sirens that tirelessly wail throughout Ukraine since the onset ...
2 days ago · The concept of mermaids can be traced back to some of the earliest human civilizations. In ancient Mesopotamia, the Assyrian goddess Atargatis was often depicted as a mermaid-like figure, with the upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish. According to legend, Atargatis fell in love with a mortal shepherd and accidentally killed him.
4 days ago · A song by pop megastar Taylor Swift has brought new attention to Clara Bow, a major Hollywood film siren in the 1920s who famously left Tinseltown for Southern Nevada to start a new life with with ...
3 days ago · Pete (Torturo), Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson), and Ulysses Everett McGill (Clooney) escape the prison at the beginning of the film at the urging of Everett. You see, George Clooney is at his best as Everett tells his buddies that there’s a treasure to be found at an old cabin, so the crew sets off to find it.
3 days ago · Capturing this fictional space on camera within both the diegetic narrative and the television show incites further incursion into deep waters. The scene operates as a siren song and an allegory of the Anthropocene that shows how media “progress” comes at the price of environmental destruction.
2 days ago · The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker.
