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given to or marked by reflection of the past
Her book takes a retrospective look at the actor's long and distinguished career.
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Entitled From Here to Eternity, the Fred Zinnemann retrospective will be running at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon over Oct. 12-Oct. 20, before heading through France and other territories.
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Lise Pedersen, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
Shaped in large part by Svenskt Tenn’s long-term collaboration with Austrian architect and designer Josef Frank beginning in the 1930s, the centenary retrospective unfurls in 13 rooms.
—Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2024
The retrospective, which currently occupies an entire floor of the museum, is organized non-chronologically such that Schütte’s early subversions of Minimalism and Conceptualism, dating back to the 1970s, are interspersed among his more recent creations.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
An instinctive social observer, the lensman’s retrospective features royals, A-listers, artists, authors and other power brokers at ease and at work.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 3 Oct. 2024
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Lise Pedersen, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
Shaped in large part by Svenskt Tenn’s long-term collaboration with Austrian architect and designer Josef Frank beginning in the 1930s, the centenary retrospective unfurls in 13 rooms.
—Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2024
The retrospective, which currently occupies an entire floor of the museum, is organized non-chronologically such that Schütte’s early subversions of Minimalism and Conceptualism, dating back to the 1970s, are interspersed among his more recent creations.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
An instinctive social observer, the lensman’s retrospective features royals, A-listers, artists, authors and other power brokers at ease and at work.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Retrospective.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retrospective. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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