TV Club - The A.V. Club. Writers, Quotes, Interviews, Artist, Biography - Paris Review. The Art Newspaper. Student activists get creative in Caracas Toy soldiers take to the streets Art students around Caracas have dressed up as green-faced soldiers, armed themselves with toy weapons and taken to the streets to condemn the country's military crackdown on protests that started in February. Photos of the “creative protests” by students from Venezuela’s Experimental Art University started appearing on Twitter as early as Wednesday. They have visited spots around Caracas and taken over the city's Metro.
At each post they take different pseudo-military positions around a single “civilian” who holds up a banner that reads: “When I was a child they were my heroes, now they repress me.” But will turning the mirror back on the soldiers help their cause? You can follow the protesters on Twitter @unearteresiste or using the hashtag #protestacreativa. From In The FramePublished online: 12 April 2014 This month: He said, she said Roberta and Jerry both consider George W's self-portrait unfinished Damien Hirst. Art Hk - Blogs. How Girls challenges the masculine expectations of “good TV” | TV | For Our Consideration. Girls entered the world with the kind of hype that all but guarantees a backlash. Scoring an 87 on Metacritic—a score my own rave review of the first three episodes didn’t factor into—the show was the second-highest-rated new show of the 2011-12 TV season, behind only Homeland.
It inspired think-piece after think-piece, often in New York-based publications that were apparently thrilled at having yet another show exposing the “truth” of life in that city. The series was almost fatally overexposed, particularly for an unassuming show that was bound to have lower ratings, being on HBO and all. That meant an “overrated!” Backlash was all but inevitable, particularly given that the pilot isn’t as strong as most of the episodes that followed. Some of that’s just the Internet, where the culture of comments sections—both here and elsewhere—all but guarantees that negative opinions will turn into an echo chamber, while positive opinions will fight for oxygen. Girls takes a similar tack.