HERO MAGAZINE: CULTURE NOW
HERO 32 cover story. Icons of horror: John Carpenter in conversation with Claudio Simonetti
Björn Andrésen: The tragic story of the most beautiful boy in
May 13, 2021 · Above image: Still, Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti, 1971. Despite’s its lukewarm reception at the time of release, Death in Venice turned 15 year-old Swedish actor Björn Andrésen into an international icon of forbidden lust. Cast by Italian director Luchino Visconti as the film’s embodiment of beauty and temptation, the image took Andrésen hostage from then on, creating a cult ...
Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud: the French cartoonist whose seminal ... - Hero
Jul 1, 2020 · In 1963, with a style that still closely resembled that of his mentor, Giraud created Fort Navajo with Belgian scriptwriter Jean-Michel Charlier. The immediate success of lead character Blueberry – a hard-nosed, cigarillo-chewing cowboy – led Giraud to create an entirely new comic, with Blueberry as its central titular character.
Outer Banks star Rudy Pankow charts the trajectory of his ... - Hero
Apr 21, 2023 · Netflix’s Outer Banks was at the epicentre of pandemic TV. First airing in 2020 at a time when the world stood still, viewers lived vicariously through a tight- knit group of local teens (the ‘Pogues’) on the hunt for shipwrecked treasure …
Family ties: Bill Skarsgård in conversation with Stellan Skarsgård
Aug 17, 2016 · Bill Skarsgård has just been announced as the eponymous character It (otherwise known as the clown Pennywise) in the new big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s infamously childhood-ruining novel.And by the looks of the new images, Pennywise is still set on destroying all your naive dreams.
Iconic skate brand Vision Street Wear has returned – HERO
Mar 15, 2022 · Founded in 1976 by Brad Dorfman, Vision Sports arrived on the skate scene just as the movement was making serious waves across America’s west coast.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: the land art duo who moved …
May 13, 2020 · Born on the same day, 13 June 1935, Christo and Jean-Claude’s fate was seemingly tied from the start. Both escaped their place of birth, arriving in Paris during the late 50s, Christo from behind the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria (after studying in Prague and Vienna) and Jeanne-Claude from her stately Morroccan family.
Louise Bourgeois: absent mothers, childhood trauma and Freudian ...
May 20, 2020 · It wasn’t until 1954, when Bourgeois joined the American Abstract Artists Group that her career really transformed. Befriending the likes of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, Bourgeois broke new ground as an artist, pushing the scale and material of her sculptures and becoming a leading figure in feminist art.
Joan Miró: the Spanish surrealist who inspired Dalí and Magritte
Sep 8, 2021 · Among Miró’s most famous works are a series of 23 paintings he produced on paper from January 1940 to September 1941 that he referred to as Constellations.Having hastily left Paris for the Spanish island of Mallorca to escape the German advance, the near-two year period in which the series was created came at a time of great fear and uncertainty.
HERO 31 Cover Interview: Julian Casablancas and Alex Carapetis
Mar 30, 2024 · AJT: During the pandemic, I watched all your S.O.S. Earth is a Mess videos where you hosted conversations with great thinkers like Noam Chomsky and Richard D. Wolff, a topic that came up frequently was the advancement of technology. I wondered what your opinions are on this as we stand today, especially in terms of the rapid growth of AI and computer-generated materials. 2023 felt like a ...