#Sarah Maria Scicluna

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Two artists Sarah Maria Scicluna and Ruth Ancilleri at Malta Society of Arts, Documents of Inheritance / Poetics of Desire is presenting a body of work of digital photos that explore Maltese nature.

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Time, April 29/May 6

Cover: The 100 Most Influential People -- Dwayne Johnson

Cover: Taylor Swift

Cover: Gayle King

Cover: Sandra Oh

Cover: Nancy Pelosi 

Page 9: Contents 

Page 10: Contents 

Page 14: From the Editor 

Page 18: Behind the Scenes 

Page 20: The 100 most influential people in the world 

Page 22: Points of Origin -- Where this year’s Time 100 were born 

Page 25: Pioneers -- Sandra Oh

Page 26: Sandra Oh by Shonda Rhimes, Barbara Rae-Venter by Paul Holes

Page 27: Fred Swaniker by Mo Ibrahim 

Page 28: Ninja by Juju Smith-Schuster, Chrissy Teigen by Eric Ripert 

Page 29: Lynn Nottage by Martha Plimpton 

Page 30: Naomi Osaka by Chris Evert 

Page 32: Aileen Lee by Kirsten Green, Tara Westover by Bill Gates 

Page 36: Massimo Bottura by JR 

Page 38: Jay O’Neal and Emily Comer by Dolores Huerta, He Jiankui by Jennifer Doudna 

Page 40: Marlon James by Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy by Priyanka Chopra 

Page 41: Shep Doeleman by Lisa Randall 

Page 45: Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin by Ayanna Pressley 

Page 46: Hasan Minhaj by Trevor Noah 

Page 47: Adam Bowen and James Monsees by Tom Miller, Samin Nosrat by Alice Waters 

Page 48: Indya Moore by Janet Mock 

Page 50: Motivating factors -- which books, movies, shows, songs and places they turn to for inspiration 

Page 53: Artists -- Dwayne Johnson 

Page 54: Dwayne Johnson by Gal Gadot, Ariana Grande by Troye Sivan 

Page 55: Rami Malek by Robert Downey Jr. 

Page 56: Regina King by Viola Davis 

Page 57: Richard Madden by Kenneth Branagh 

Page 58: Brie Larson by Tessa Thompson, Luchita Hurtado by Hans Ulrich Obrist 

Page 59: Emilia Clarke by Emma Thompson 

Page 60: BTS by Halsey 

Page 65: Mahershala Ali by Octavia Spencer, Chip and Joanna Gaines by Tim Tebow 

Page 66: Glenn Close by Robert Redford, Clare Waight Keller by Julianne Moore 

Page 68: Ozuna by Daddy Yankee 

Page 69: Yalitza Aparicio by Alfonso Cuaron, dream hampton by Tarana Burke 

Page 71: Khalid by Alicia Keys 

Page 72: Motivating factors 

Page 75: Leaders -- Nancy Pelosi 

Page 76: Nancy Pelosi by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mahathir Mohamad by Clare Rewcastle Brown 

Page 77: Donald Trump by Chris Christie 

Page 78: Ren Zhengfei by Charlie Campbell 

Page 79: Jane Goodall by Leonardo DiCaprio, Matteo Salvini by Steve Bannon 

Page 80: Leana Wen by Cynthia Nixon, Xi Jinping by Jon Huntsman 

Page 81: Robert Mueller by Sally Yates 

Page 82: Abiy Ahmed by Feyisa Lilesa, Cyril Ramaphosa by Vivienne Walt 

Page 83: Jacinda Ardern by Sadiq Khan 

Page 84: Zhang Yiming by Kai-Fu Lee, Benjamin Netanyahu by David French 

Page 86: Imran Khan by Ahmed Rashid 

Page 87: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador by Jorge Ramos, Mitch McConnell by John Boehner

Page 88: Juan Guaido by Juan Manuel Santos 

Page 90: Pope Francis by Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna, Hoesung Lee by Ban Ki-Moon

Page 91: Brett Kavanaugh by Mitch McConnell 

Page 92: Jair Bolsonaro by Ian Bremmer, Greta Thunberg by Emma Gonzalez

Page 93: Zhang Kejian by Scott Kelly 

Page 94: William Barr by Rod Rosenstein, Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Zayed by Ryan Bohl 

Page 95: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Elizabeth Warren 

Page 102: Motivating factors 

Page 105: Titans -- Mohamed Salah 

Page 106: Mohamed Salah by John Oliver, Jeanne Gang by Anna Deavere Smith 

Page 107: Pat McGrath by Beverly Johnson 

Page 108: Gayle King by Ava DuVernay 

Page 109: Ryan Murphy by Jessica Lange 

Page 110: Jennifer Hyman by Diane Von Furstenberg, Mark Zuckerberg by Sean Parker 

Page 111: Jerome Powell by Janet Yellen 

Page 112: LeBron James by Warren Buffett 

Page 114: Vera Jourova by Margrethe Vestager, Alex Morgan by Mia Hamm

Page 115: Mukesh Ambani by Anand Mahindra 

Page 116: Tiger Woods by Justin Timberlake, Marillyn Hewson by Penny Pritzker 

Page 117: Bob Iger by Michael R. Bloomberg 

Page 118: Motivating factors 

Page 121: Icons -- Taylor Swift 

Page 122: Taylor Swift by Shawn Mendes, Loujain al-Hathloul by Sarah Leah Whitson 

Page 123: Pierpaolo Piccioli by Frances McDormand 

Page 124: Spike Lee by Jordan Peele, Grainne Griffin and Ailbhe Smyth and Orla O’Connor by Ruth Negga 

Page 125: Desmond Meade by Stacey Abrams

Page 126: Christine Blasey Ford by Kamala Harris 

Page 128: David Hockney by Edwin Becker 

Page 130: Caster Semenya by Edwin Moses, Mirian G. by Kumail Nanjiani 

Page 131: Maria Ressa by Madeleine Albright 

Page 132: Lady Gaga by Celine Dion 

Page 134: Radhya Almutawakel by Bernie Sanders 

Page 135: Michelle Obama by Beyonce Knowles-Carter 

Back Cover: Simon Baker for Longines 

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Art Through The Years

Artworks tell a lot about our history. These pieces often tell stories and trends of a certain period in time. You can also tell what technology is available in those times based on the materials used. Primitive men used sharp rocks to carve out figures on the walls of prehistoric caves. As the years go by and man evolves to become more superior in intellect, the tools they use to express their artistic side also improved.

If you look at popular and well-preserved artworks in most museums today, you can learn a lot not only about the artist but about that period in history. The art also connected people regardless of race, religion or personal differences. Appreciation for the arts is universal. So, find out now how the arts shaped and connected the world through the years.

The Malta Stock Exchange is sponsoring an art exhibition, curated by artist Adrian Scicluna, within the Exchange building at the Garrison Chapel at Castille Place in Valletta.

The exhibition investigates notions of connectivity, with participating artists presenting works that explore the theme not merely from an interest in instruments and infrastructures, but by acknowledging the phenomena of what connectivity says about us.

The exhibition features works by artists, Matthew Attard, Noel Attard, Vince Briffa, Clint Calleja, Glen Calleja and Sandro Spina, Giola Cassar, Valerio Schembri, Adrian Sciculna, Sarah Maria Scicluna and Darren Tanti.

“Clint and Valerio link religion with mo­dern communication technology. Through the use of metaphor Valerio investigates inclusion and exclusion in society; while Clint references the Tower of Babel from the Bible, sending a cautious message that we must be wary of today’s communication technology,” Scicluna explains.

He continues how Darren Tanti’s painting connects two realities, exploring how Eastern and Western contemporary and historical culture influence each other and subsequently merge.

(Via: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170402/arts-entertainment/connectivity-through-art.644236)

We learn a lot about our past by looking at old artworks and it gives us a glimpse of what the future also holds for us.

The world is built on binaries: good and evil, war and peace and life and death. The work of Sherin Guirguis, an artist, associate professor and vice dean of faculty at the Roski School of Art and Design, challenges notions of the informal and formal, the structured and chaotic, the arts and the politics.

Even one artist can make a big impact in this world.

Her work focuses on connecting opposites together, both in art and in life.

Her most recent work “One I Call,” which is currently on display at the Desert X exhibit in Palm Springs, is an interactive complex based on the pigeon towers of Egyptian villages. Often used to serve as beacons of the outskirts of civilizations or the ancient mail systems of rural communities, these pigeon towers were central places for communities. “One I Call” aims to do the same by incorporating the natural landscape of the Whitewater Reserve of the Coachella Valley into a beautiful complex with which visitors can interact.

The final piece is a beehive-esque tower, in which gold leaf circles and sticks align in geometric patterns that collect sunlight in a dazzling way. The landscape of the exhibit — tall mountains where sheep graze, and birds burrow in the boulders — complements the small tower nested in a beautiful desert. When visitors come, they truly are able to interact and experience the history behind the pigeon tower, theCoachella Valley and the civilizations before it.

“We came to a place, we made a work about that place and then we had people from that place engaged,” Guirguis said. “That felt good.”

(Via: http://dailytrojan.com/2017/03/08/roski-professor-speaks-power-art/)

If you go to the Horror section of your local bookstore today, you won’t find books by Stephen King, Mary Shelley or HP Lovecraft; instead, you’ll find a stack of newspapers from the past couple of years.

Okay, that’s not quite true—let’s just call it an alternative fact—but it may as well be. Because with Trump, Brexit, the refugee crisis, and the rising tides of rightwing populism, nationalism, racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia, the real world has become so nightmarish that no amount of snarky online commentary can make a difference. Even this article.

But there may be something that can: art.

We’ve seen millions of protesters standing up for what they believe in, fighting back against the seemingly inevitable fascism and fake tan-tinged future, and now artists are bringing their progressive messages to as wide an audience as they possibly can.

As Paul Gauguin said at the turn of the last century, “Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionary.” Leo Tolstoy called art “a method of communication between humans about the conditions of life itself.” And as Sam Lewis-Hargreave recently put it, “Don’t worry, I’ll stop quoting old artists and get to the point.”

Historically, art has been about resistance. It’s a tradition that goes further back than Picasso, but let’s start with him anyway. Described with uncertainty on the artist’s own website as “probably Picasso’s most famous work,” the 1937 painting Guernica used Cubism in a way that finally made sense: to portray the tragic, distorting, and downright confusing nature of the suffering of war.

(Via: http://www.thelondoneconomic.com/entertainment/arts/art-last-hope-liberal-future/23/03/)

History teaches us that art played a big role on how we shaped our society today. Artworks have been instrumental in pushing for reforms and changes that were desperately needed by the people of yesteryears. Until now, artists hide messages in their art pieces that let the public know about their stand on certain issues that plague the world today. And it is inspiring to realize that these beautiful and timeless pieces serve a dual purpose that not only pleases the eye but also works for the common good.

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wo artists Sarah Maria Scicluna and Ruth Ancilleri at Malta Society of Arts, Documents of Inheritance / Poetics of Desire is presenting a body of work of digital photos that explore Maltese nature.

Two artists Sarah Maria Scicluna and Ruth Ancilleri at Malta Society of Arts, Documents of Inheritance / Poetics of Desire is presenting a body of work of digital photos that explore Maltese nature.