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New Indian Express
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New Indian Express
Nishtha Bansal's debut weaves Klimt, couture, and the power of peonies
Chandigarh-based designer Nishtha Bansal is making her debut in couture with her latest collection titled 'Alchemy of Love', inspired by Gustav Klimt's iconic painting 'The Kiss'. 'That painting has so many emotions—it reminds me of something really special in my life,' she says. 'And the colours in it—those reds, greens, and that golden shimmer—I've brought those directly into my collection.' More than just visual inspiration, the painting stirred something deeper in her. 'It's not just about the art, it's about how it made me feel,' Bansal explains. 'There's this long-held emotion in my heart that shaped how I understand love, intimacy, and beauty. That's what I wanted to pour into the collection.' The title itself hints at transformation. 'Like an alchemist turns metals into gold, love has the power to turn vulnerability into strength, longing into creativity,' she says. 'This collection is me trying to distil that magic into something wearable.'
Glasgow Times
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
British band to host 'biggest' Glasgow gig for anniversary
Post-punk group, IST IST, will perform at the city's Oran Mor in the West End on Saturday, November 29. The band, which consists of Adam Houghton, Joel Kay, Andy Keating, and Mat Peters, will host the concert in the city to mark their 10th anniversary. READ MORE: Singer performing at TRNSMT 2025 to host gig at beloved Glasgow venue READ MORE: Huge singer adds second Glasgow Hydro gig date after selling out first show The group will also host shows in Leeds, London, and Birmingham as part of their Winter Tour. Formed in late 2014, IST IST is known for their smash hits, including You're Mine, Lost My Shadow, The Kiss, Black, and Wolves. While announcing their tour, the band revealed they are currently in the studio recording their fifth album. Their fourth record, Light A Bigger Fire, reached 25th in the UK Official Album Charts in 2024. Speaking about what to expect from their upcoming UK Winter tour, IST IST said: 'The four shows in winter will be the biggest UK headliners we've played outside of our home city of Manchester, so it's really exciting for us to be taking the live show into bigger spaces and in front of more people. "The European shows, especially the Netherlands, are growing and growing, so it's about time the UK dates went in the same direction. "We're in the studio recording our fifth album as we speak. "We'll be previewing more of the new album tracks at these shows, so there's a lot of good stuff just around the corner for us.' READ MORE: Extra special tickets released for multi-platinum singer's Glasgow gig READ MORE: Legendary Brit singer announces 'intimate' Glasgow concert Tickets for the event will go on sale on Thursday, May 22, at 10am.
Wall Street Journal
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘The Kiss' Review: A Historical Drama of Human Folly
With his dozens of novels and stories, the wide-ranging Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) has been inspiring filmmakers for more than 90 years. The latest of many examples is 'The Kiss,' from the eminent Danish director Bille August. As is typical of Zweig's work, psychological depth combines with suspenseful plotting, in this case to serve a parable about the follies that led to World War I. An emotionally unstable continent and an equally volatile young woman move in parallel in a tale set in 1914 Denmark, where an impecunious young cavalry lieutenant, Anton (Esben Smed), who struggles for acceptance among his much wealthier peers, is determined above all else to restore family honor after a scandal involving his father. While undergoing vaguely absurd training exercises with his neutral country's army—he and his fellow officers attack straw figures with swords, seemingly unfamiliar with the concept of machine guns—he assists an elderly driver in getting his car out of the mud. This spontaneous act of kindness turns out to have unexpected consequences.
New York Times
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘The Kiss' Review: A Romance Without Love?
This movie begins as many conventional period romances set in Mitteleuropa do: at a formal event in the 1910s, as an ambitious young military man, Anton, asks a daughter of nobility, Edith, to dance. She is willing, but a complication becomes clear as she attempts to rise from her chair: She wears braces on her lower legs, which are paralyzed. She totters forward, and there is a fair amount of embarrassment to go around, but Anton, seeking through Edith a path to the favor of the nobility, is not deterred. 'The Kiss,' the latest picture from the prolific Danish director Bille August, is adapted from 'Beware of Pity,' the sole novel the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig published in his lifetime. Its narrative is persistently discomfiting, but August often tells it in a way that emphasizes the picturesque; if you weren't paying attention to the postures of its characters, you could possibly mistake it for something genuinely romantic like 'Elvira Madigan.' Anton is played by Esben Smed, who's clearly trying to tamp down his character's essential callowness, while Clara Rosager shows purposeful restraint in her work as the smitten and hopeful Edith. The picture moves at a stately pace that one supposes was considered period-appropriate but feels merely logy at times. August and his co-screenwriter, Greg Latter, juggle Zweig's chronology a bit and try to compound his ironies. Then they take a whack at ameliorating those ironies in the movie's coda, as if they themselves are taking pity on the viewer. As executed, it feels like waffling. This director's filmography has long been bumpy — he came out of the gate with 'Pelle the Conqueror,' which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1988, took another Palme in 1992 with 'The Best Intentions' (working from a script by Ingmar Bergman), and took a notable wrong turn with 'Smilla's Sense of Snow' (1997). And despite the best efforts of the cast and technical crew here, 'The Kiss' winds up in the land of 'meh.'
The Guardian
13-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘Very desirable' rare cast of Rodin's The Kiss is up for auction
Auguste Rodin's sensual portrayal of tragic lovers caught in an embrace before being killed by a jealous husband is one of the world's most recognised works of art. The French artist had the idea for The Kiss (Le Baiser) in 1882, and the larger-than-lifesize marble artwork emerged a decade later. By then, Rodin was the most influential international sculptor of the age. Dozens of versions of The Kiss were made before Rodin's death aged 77 in 1917 and dozens more official reproductions and copies emerged after, making it one of the most replicated pieces of art in the world. Now, a rare bronze of The Kiss produced during Rodin's lifetime, signed by the artist and which has been in private hands for most of the past century, will be auctioned this month. The bronze, measuring 60cm high, was one of the first three cast in this size and has retained the artist's original detail. It was commissioned in 1904 by the Argentine Jockey Club to be presented as a marriage gift to Lucien Mérignac, the French fencing world and Olympic champion. Auctioneering expert Raphaël Courant admitted he was surprised to discover what he described as 'a very beautiful work, very sensual' in the living room of a family apartment in western France. 'It's a very desirable object and it's increasingly rare to see this kind of work by Rodin outside of a museum,' he told the Observer. The bronze, estimated at about €500,000, was cast in France in July 1904 and presented to Mérignac two months later in Buenos Aires as a fitting symbol of love to mark his marriage to Christina Ruiz de Castillo. Rodin had initially intended to include the ill-fated lovers in his massive bronze doors, The Gates of Hell, commissioned in 1879 by the French government for a new Paris museum. The figures are of Paolo and Francesca, tragic lovers from Dante's narrative poem The Divine Comedy, who were killed by Francesca's husband after he caught the 13th-century Italian noblewoman in an embrace with his own younger brother. The lovers were condemned to wander eternally through hell. Rodin later removed the couple from the gates and transformed them into a standalone marble sculpture measuring 1.8m that was presented to the Paris Salon in 1898 and is today in the city's Rodin Museum. After the success of The Kiss at the Salon, Rodin contacted the Maison Barbedienne foundry and agreed a 10-year contract to reproduce the sculpture. A total of about 60 bronzes measuring 60cm are believed to have been struck. Sign up to Art Weekly Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions after newsletter promotion The Mérignac bronze has a dedication to the fencing champion on its base. Mérignac and his wife later moved back to France and settled in La Flèche in the west where he was a fencing instructor at the Prytanée military school. Christina died in 1923 and, 14 years later, Mérignac married one of his students, Agathe Turgis. They moved to Angers in the Loire valley and when he died in 1941, Turgis continued to teach fencing. The anonymous private owner was one of Turgis's pupils. She spotted the bronze in a local antique shop and bought it for her Angers flat. 'You really don't expect to see a work of this kind and size in such a domestic setting,' Courant said. The bronze will be sold by auction house Chauviré & Courant in Angers on 25 April.
