Art 3 years ago

Wassily Kandinsky, the painter who heard his own colors

A Russian artist who abandoned law at thirty to follow the conviction that color could carry the same charge as music, Kandinsky did not arrive at abstraction through theory — he arrived through neurology. His synesthesia made what…

Actors 3 years ago

Heather Graham, the FBI daughter who walked into every room her father warned her about

Raised by an FBI agent who said Hollywood would claim her soul, she walked in anyway — Rollergirl,…

Actors 3 years ago

Josephine Langford, the actress critics dismissed and audiences kept for five years

Five After films. Zero percent from critics. Ninety-three from audiences. Then she built her own exit and found…

Actors 3 years ago

Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, the goalkeeper turned mob boss who arrived at Sundance quietly

Four years as Vartolu Sadettin made him the most watched criminal on Turkish television. Then came a Sundance-awarded…

Actors 3 years ago

Bae Suzy, the actress Korea never stopped loving — and what she built inside that love story

For fifteen years, South Korean audiences have called Bae Suzy their national first love. She didn't argue. She…

Art 3 years ago

André Derain, the painter who ignited Fauvism and chose to walk away

Of the two men who invented Fauvism, Henri Matisse stayed. Derain did not. A career that began as…

People 3 years ago

Heather McMahan, embracing her physical attributes for authentic comedy

Heather McMahan, the hilarious and authentic comedian, is taking the world by storm with her unique brand of…

Actors 3 years ago

Vanessa Kirby, turned down by drama school, chosen by BAFTA, Venice, and Marvel

She was rejected by LAMDA and spent a gap year volunteering at an AIDS hospice in South Africa.…

Actors 3 years ago

Rebecca Ferguson, the actress who keeps walking away from the franchises that made her

She came back to the screen after raising her son in a Swedish coastal town, broke through as…

Actors 3 years ago

Hayley Atwell, the actress Marvel made famous and theatre refuses to give back

Hayley Atwell built a dual career that most actors never manage: a Marvel franchise that made her face…

Directors 3 years ago

Mike Flanagan, the horror director who keeps proving grief is the real haunting

Mike Flanagan keeps making the same argument inside a different haunted house. The Hill House is a family…

Actors 3 years ago

Tommy Lee Jones, the cattle rancher with an Oscar and a Cannes prize on the same shelf

His Harvard roommate ran for president. His thesis was on Flannery O'Connor. Tommy Lee Jones has spent fifty…

Actors 3 years ago

Taissa Farmiga, the actress who became a horror queen without ever becoming a horror fan

She played Violet Harmon on her first professional audition and Sister Irene in the highest-grossing film in The…