Tschabalala Self, "Koco at the Bodega" (2017), colored pencil, photocopies of hand-colored drawings, acrylic, Flashe, fabric and painted canvas on canvas, 243. 8 x 213. 4 cm (courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias, London / photo: Andrea Rossetti) Tschabalala Self's lovely, shrieky, rackety mixings of paint and collaged fabrics are the only works in this show that do not feel weighed down by the burden of the various kinds of anxiety that seem to buzz about here so frenziedly, ranging from the fact of being a painter at all, to the horrible uncertainties surrounding the very idea of the human condition in a nasty, predatory world such as this one. In fact, they are marvelously, toe-tappingly celebratory, and they come the closest that this show ever does to the great idea that being alive in this world, as we casually contemplate each other flouncing around in the local corner store, might be pleasurable and neighborly and more than a tad sexy. Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium continues at Whitechapel Gallery (77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London, England) through May 10.
Viola Davis to co-star with Sandra Bullock in Netflix movie adapted from UK crime drama miniseries Unforgiven Published: 19:37 EDT, 16 December 2019 | Updated: 19:45 EDT, 16 December 2019 Viola Davis has signed on to star in the upcoming Netflix film Unforgiven. The movie is based on the 2009 UK three-episode crime drama mini-series of the same name, not to be confused with the 1992 Clint Eastwood western. Aisling Franciosi and Rob Morgan have also hopped aboard the cast led by Sandra Bullock, Deadline reported this Monday. New role: Viola Davis has signed on to star in the upcoming Netflix film Unforgiven - the movie is based on the 2009 UK three-episode crime drama mini-series of the same name Christopher McQuarrie, who won an Oscar for his The Usual Suspects screenplay and is known for his work with Tom Cruise, is adapting the series into a film. German filmmaker Nora Fingscheidt, whose latest film System Crasher bowed this September, is directing the Netflix movie. Sally Wainwright wrote the original series starring Suranne Jones as Ruth, who struggles to adjust to life outside jail after serving time for a double-cop-killing.