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.” Art Hk - Blogs. How Girls challenges the masculine expectations of “good TV” 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!”