Carole Puéo

 

CAROLE PUÉO

Carole Puéo is a contemporary French painter born in Trévoux in 1973, who currently lives and works in Burgundy. She is a renowned figurative artist whose work focuses primarily on female portraits. Carole Puéo has a solid academic background. She studied at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Dijon and then continued her university studies in the history of contemporary art. Her artistic research is strongly inspired by art history, particularly feminist art movements. While she is highly recognized for her acrylics, dry pastels, and ink works, oil painting serves as a foundational medium for her deeper psychological explorations.

Carol Carter | Watercolor on paper

 

Carol Carter (American, born 1955)

Watercolor on paper 

Carol Carter is an internationally recognized artist whose career has spanned more than 35 years. 

Photographer Torbjørn Rødland is Returning to His Perverted Roots

Another Bricolage, 2024-2026. Chromogenic print. 7 7/8 x 12 inches. Courtesy David Kordansky Gallery.

Photographer Torbjørn Rødland is Returning to His Perverted Roots

Lily McMenamy

March 17, 2026

For three decades Norwegian artist Torbjørn Rødland has constructed images that at first glance seem controlled: glossy skin, wholesome setups, meticulous lighting. But if you stick with them, reality starts to crack, and an unsettling, uncanny presence emerges. His latest show, Bones in the Canal and Other Photographs, which opened last week at David Kordansky, marks a return to the calculated perversions he’s spent years perfecting, only this time with a much smaller camera, and a different view. As he told his friend and collaborator Lily McMenamy (who also appears in the exhibition), over Zoom, it’s all about composition, Enneagram types, and his inexhaustible inner world. 

Eduardo Carbonell and Lubia Rodríguez during the new nationwide blackout in Havana.NORLYS PÉREZ (REUTERS)

Cuba in the dark: ‘There are days that go by, the full 24 hours, without electricity’

The island, already used to an unstable grid, suffered its seventh total supply collapse this year

Juan Carlos Espinosa

Abel Fernandez 

Mexico / Miami - AUG 05, 2026 - 05:58 COT

In everyday Cubans’ lives there are two unwritten rules. The first is resolver — finding ways to get by. The second is no coger lucha. In other words: keep your composure even when everything is going wrong. But recently both precepts have been pushed to the limit. Squeezed by U.S. sanctions and cornered by decades of mismanagement, islanders have seen that even after hitting rock bottom a new sinkhole always opens. Within hours the country suffered yet another total collapse of the National Electric System (SEN). The second in less than a day, the seventh in 2026, and the eleventh in the past two years.

The Treachery of Images by Rene Magritte

The treachery of language: the limits of translation

Why language never says what we think it does

Madison Leeson

5 August 2026

In The Misery and Splendour of Translation (1937), José Ortega y Gasset relays his response to a conference attendee who remarked on the “impossibility of translating certain German philosophers.” Rather than dismissing this claim, Ortega leaned into it. He suggested that translation, as a practice, is in some sense utopian – that is, that it aims toward an ideal outcome (perfect equivalence between languages) that can never actually be achieved. In other words, there is no single correct translation, only approximations shaped by context.

 

‘There have been nightmares’ … George RR Martin in 2019. Photograph: Antonio Olmos

‘Getting old is no fun’: Game of Thrones author George RR Martin speaks out about depression amid further book delays

A new blog post by the fantasy writer has outlined his recent difficulties, as fans continue to speculate on the elusive sixth book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series

Emma Loffhagen

Wed 5 Aug 2026

Emily Wilson | An Umcomplicated Man

 

An Uncomplicated Man

By Emily Wilson

Vol. 48 No. 14 · 13 August 2026

The Odyssey 
directed by Christopher Nolan.

Christopher nolan’s $250 million action movie version of Homer’s ancient Greek poem is an entertaining way to hide from the high temperatures for a few hours. Nolan’s trademark jumps and twists in the narrative structure are relatively easy to follow, and appropriate for The Odyssey, a narrative of tales nested in tales. My teenagers had a good time. Unlike some of Nolan’s other films, The Odyssey is not boring, thanks to the source material, which is impossible to mess up entirely. It’s a family-friendly audiovisual spectacle, like an elaborate Fourth of July fireworks display – and with about the same level of narrative and emotional depth.

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‘And all the food looks horrible’ … Emily Wilson. Photograph: Elijah Ellis

‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster

Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’

Andrew Pulver

Monday 27 July 2026

‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson for criticising Nolan’s Odyssey

 

‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson for criticising Nolan’s Odyssey

The novelist suggested Wilson should have been ‘a wee bit more thoughtful and respectful’ towards a film-maker who may have helped boost her book sales

Catherine Shoard

Thursday 30 July 2026

The off-screen drama surrounding Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster version of the Odyssey stepped up a gear overnight, as the novelist Joyce Carol Oates sought to defend the film-maker from an attack by classicist Emily Wilson.

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Nolan’s film could make The Odyssey the most sought-after book in the US

The nearly 2,700-year-old epic poem is flying off shelves at bookstores and libraries after the blockbuster film came out

Marina Dunbar in New York

Monday 3 Aug 2026

Christopher Nolan’s new movie The Odyssey has already broken several records, but its most significant accomplishment might be turning a nearly 2,700-year-old epic poem into the most sought-after book in America. Libraries and bookstores alike are experiencing a rush.

The visual metamorphosis of Enki Bilal’s dystopian worlds

Epok Magazine Special Issue #44: Immortel ad vitam, a film by Enki Bilal (March 1, 2004)

The visual metamorphosis of Enki Bilal’s dystopian worlds

An analysis of medium transition and posthuman imagery in Immortel (ad vitam)

Iren Yildiz
16 March 2026

Having established the broader theoretical framework, this section turns to the medium itself. The transition from still images to moving images introduces a new set of challenges and possibilities. Motion not only reshapes how meaning is constructed but also alters the way audiences perceive, interpret, and emotionally engage with visual narratives.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw on her race-horror thriller

Mbatha-Raw as Claudia with Sheldon Shepherd as Cudjoe East in Possession. Photograph: Des Willie

Interview

‘You can’t paper over the cracks of history. It will haunt you’: Gugu Mbatha-Raw on her race-horror thriller

She paved the way for Bridgerton, lit up Black Mirror’s most joyful episode – and now she stars in a grisly supernatural horror about slavery. The Belle star talks about Possession, partying with Prince and why she loves to shake things up

Emma Loffhagen
Friday 24 July 2026