Contributed by Emily Hochman (Bowdoin, ’15)
Dante: Restaurant-Bar and Ice Cube
[…] “Preserved in ice. Gaze down at the huge ice cube floating in your old-fashioned at Dante, the Italian-style aperitif bar in Greenwich Village, and you’ll have no doubt about where you’re drinking. Cut into the side of the frozen block is the bar’s poetic name.” […] –Robert Simonson, New York Times, May 15, 2015
Read more about Dante’s award-winning success here.
Dante: 79-81 Macdougal Street, NY, NY 10012
Zhao Liang’s “Inferno”-inspired documentary (2016)
“Zhao Liang’s Behemoth blurs the lines between video art and documentary, visually exploring multiple open-pit coal mines in the sparse hinterlands of China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The film, loosely inspired by Dante’s Inferno, forgoes the spoken word completely. It stylistically melds poetry and performance art to portray the lives of various coal miners and iron smelters as they struggle to produce raw material fast enough for China’s ever-growing economy. The largely plotless film draws one in through the sheer juxtaposition of its monstrous, inhuman-sized landscapes and the intimate close-ups of miners’ soot-covered faces. Though banned from being screened inside China, the film was shown to a packed house in an underground screening room on the outskirts of Beijing this past February. The next day, we sat down in Zhao’s Beijing art studio, where the filmmaker was as wry in his humor as he was cynical, discussing everything from his views on censorship to the relationship between art and activism.”
See the interview in Slant, March 16, 2016.
“Map of Hell” on National Geographic Channel (May 2016)
“Short of booking Satan himself, the National Geographic Channel could not have found a better celebrity guide than Danny Trejo for its Sunday special, “Map of Hell.” Mr. Trejo is everything you want in an underworld escort: scary, snarly, seeming as if he could reach out of the television set, slash your throat and eat you at any moment.
Credit his persona from the movies, where he tends to play extremely nasty characters. He takes enthusiastic advantage of that image here as he leads a tour of the evolution of ideas about hell, beginning with Virgil and proceeding to early Christianity, Dante, evangelicals and so on, with side trips to things like horror movies. […]”
–Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times, May 13, 2016
See also, Mark Strauss, “The Campaign to Eliminate Hell,” National Geographic, May 13, 2016
Valentino Dress at the Met Gala 2016
Rachel McAdams in a gold-beaded Valentino dress with lines from Dante’s Divine Comedy. —US Magazine, May 2, 2016
Contributed by Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio
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