Mario Sorrenti

Jan 30, 2024 | anothermag.com | Mario Sorrenti

Lead Image How have people’s lives been shaped by the print matter they collect? In a new column for AnOthermag.com titled Paper View, Norwegian publisher, curator and critic Elise By Olsen sifts through the libraries of various cultural figures, learning more about their lives and careers in the process.

Dec 8, 2023 | wsj.com | Kelly Crow |Mario Sorrenti

For over six decades, Ruscha (pronounced “rew-SHAY”) has been making art that delights in the ambiguity and cultural anthropology of everyday language. Dada artists before him may have pasted letters from magazines and posters onto art that evoked ransom notes, but Ruscha pioneered the notion of elevating American colloquialisms to the realm of fine art.

Aug 16, 2023 | msn.com | Mario Sorrenti |Edward Bowleg III

This past April, Republican lawmakers in the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel Democratic representatives Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson for protesting on the floor of the chamber in support of stricter gun-control regulations. The demonstration came after six people, including three nine-year-old children, were killed in a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville.

Aug 16, 2023 | msn.com | Mario Sorrenti |Beat Bolliger

Nia DaCosta’s first feature, the 2019 drama Little Woods, was about a young woman, played by Tessa Thompson, on probation after being convicted on drug charges, stuck in a system that seems intent on keeping her down, and torn between dreams, responsibilities, and survival. The film signaled DaCosta’s arrival as a filmmaker with an innate understanding of the social component of storytelling—how what we see reflected back at us can influence our sense of possibility.

Aug 16, 2023 | msn.com | Mario Sorrenti |Beat Bolliger

Golshifteh Farahani has always had an independent streak. Growing up in her native Iran, she bristled against all kinds of authority: her parents and teachers, not to mention the more repressive laws and customs that subjugated women. It’s an impulse that Farahani, 40, continued to honor on her way to becoming a star and one of the most globally famous actors the country has ever produced.