The Pastels of Lucas Samaras an Innovative Look Artist’S Exhibit at Morgan Library Into Relationships Through Aug
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S O C V st ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 101 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A wEEkly GrEEk-AmEriCAN PuBliCATiON 1915-2016 VOL. 19, ISSUE 971 May 21-27, 2016 c v $1.50 Lanthimos’ Lobster is Dreams in Dust: the Pastels of Lucas Samaras An Innovative Look Artist’s Exhibit at Morgan Library Into Relationships Through Aug. 21 By Vasilis Papoutsis Best Foreign Language Film at By Penelope Karageorge the 83rd Academy Awards and LOS ANGELES, CA – Director won the Prix Un Certain Regard NEW YORK – Iconoclast Lucas Yorgos Lanthimos’ first English at the 2009 Cannes Film Festi - Samaras presented New York’s language feature film, the Lob - val. Yorgos Lanthimos films deal Morgan Library and the art-lov - ster, opened in New York and with important relationship is - ing public with a gift of 48 of Los Angeles on May 13. sues and the emotional happi - his pastels. “Dreams in Dust: The film won the Jury Prize ness or hardships that deride The Pastels of Lucas Samaras” award at the Cannes Film Festi - from those relationships. Dog - will be on exhibit at the Morgan val and it is an international co- tooth focused on the isolation through August 21. Celebrating production by companies from of a family and the dysfunc - the work of a creative genius Greece, France, Holland, the tional dynamics between its whose work confounds the UK, and Ireland. The cast is also members. humdrum, the Morgan show - a collection of impressive inter - The Lobster examines the cases small, elegant pastels that national film actors, staring pressures that society puts upon vibrate with color and mystery. Colin Farrell, Rachel Wiesz and its members who fail to remain The Kastoria-born Samaras, John C. Reilly. in a longterm committed rela - 79, a favorite of the cognoscenti, The Lobster has received ac - tionship either by choice or cir - breaks the rules to challenge us claim from film critics and on cumstance. In this fictional with unconventional art. “What - Rotten Tomatoes, a consensus world that Lanthimos has cre - ever I do has to be well done,” review reads in part: ''As strange ated, single people are send to Samaras told Interview Maga - as it is thrillingly ambitious, The the Hotel. Singles have 45 days zine. “And it even has to ap - Lobster is definitely an acquired to find true love and if they fail, proach an area of beauty rather taste but for viewers with the then they are turned into the than ugliness. It can be rough fortitude to crack through Lan - animal of their choice. but it has to be beautiful.” thimo's offbeat sensibilities, it When asked if the transfor - Never following popular dic - should prove a cinematic treat.'' mation in animals has a sym - TNH/COSTAS BEJ tates, Samaras began working The Lobster has an eccentric bolic meaning director Lanthi - Helen Chiotes Donates $1.3 Million to Cathedral for Events Hall with pastels during the 1950s, and unconventional style of sto - mos said that'' I do not seek the heyday of Abstract Expres - rytelling, a dark comedy with symbolisms. The society's pun - Helen Chiotes, who donated $1.3 million for a new events hall at the Archdiocesan Cathedral, sionism. Although they were an comedic interludes. And is sim - ishment for those who are not greets Archbishop Demetrios as Cathedral Dean Fr. John Vlahos looks on. The Chiotes Family ilar in style with Lanthimos’ bet - in relationships can be severe. Cathedral Hall is expected to be completed by next year. Story on page 2. Continued on page 6 ter-known film to American au - The transformation into an ani - diences, Dogtooth. mal has a positive aspect as the That film was nominated for individual gets another chance to live a different life. It is not a terminal punishment.'' Colin Events Director Albanis Leaving NYU Farrell stars as David, whose We've Got a wife left him for another man and now finds himself at the By Eleni Sakellis were there on the G.I. Bill. Two at the National Endowment for Whole New Hotel, looking for true love. Life uncles and two aunts also met the Arts or the National Endow - at the Hotel is very structured Gregory Albanis, Senior Di - and married in that same gradu - ment for the Humanities, he and any deviation from the rules rector of University Events at ating class, along with 20 or 30 worked as an admissions officer Look! is punishable. After he turns New York University has a long others.” He noted that they still at NYU before he began organiz - down a woman's sexual ad - connection with the institution. keep in touch, in spite of the ad - ing events at the ever-expanding vances, David seeks the affec - In fact, his parents both attended vancing years, though some have university. By Antonis H. Diamataris tions of the most cold blooded the university and met in what passed away. As NYU transitioned from a person: the Heartless Woman, is now known as the Hellenic There are at least 14 degrees commuter school to becoming We are pleased to pre - played by Angeliki Papoulia. Heritage Association. from NYU in the family, includ - one of the top dream schools in sent you with our new, At first, they are enjoying His father’s side of the family ing the two Albanis himself the United States, Albanis be - vastly improved website, themselves, but when the ro - hails from Mytilene and his earned –a bachelor’s in art his - came the university’s director of which is tangible proof of mance turns sour he decides to mother’s side from outside tory at the College of Arts and special events. After the May 18 our determination to be escape to the Woods and join Olympia. As Albanis told The Na - Science in 1978 and a master’s commencement ceremony, the your source of information the society of the Loners. Sur - tional Herald in an interview, in public administration at the 59-year-old Albanis is stepping online as well as in print. “the Class of 1948 was the first Wagner School in 1980. 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For over Government spokeswoman ier to read on mobile 20 years, the icon was displayed Olga Gerovassili said that the phones and tablets. on the stand in the entryway be - bill with reforms and tax in - fore the narthex of the historic creases, pending the successful church. completion of a review by The theft took place on May Greece’s lenders of its progress 8 around 12:25PM, shortly after on bailout reforms, will be voted Liacouras, 85, the Divine Liturgy and while the on by the end of the week. congregation was at the coffee The new bill is expected to hour at the community center. include a raft of tax hikes, in - Ex-Pres. of It was recorded on security cluding raising consumer tax video which shows the 5-feet, from 23 percent to 24 percent, 3-inch man with a cane hob - increasing taxes on fuel, hotel Temple Univ. bling into the church. He made stays, alcohol and tobacco as the sign of the cross then he well as liberalizing the sale of took off his jacket, picked up the non-performing loans. AP PHOTO/DArkO BANDiC Peter Liacouras, seventh icon of the patron Saint of the However, the government Tensions Flare, Scuffles Arise, at Greece/FYROM Border president of Temple University Church and disappeared. said it wouldn’t include a con - in Philadelphia from 1982- Archdiocesan Chancellor Greek police confront migrants during scuffles at the FYROM border, in Idomeni, Greece, 2000, passed away on May 12 Bishop Andonios of Phasiane Continued on page 11 Wednesday. Thousands of stranded refugees and migrants have camped in Idomeni for months. after a long illness following a told TNH that the man was stroke he suffered in 2010. He “known to the parish and he was 85 years old. Liacouras was once refused access to the transformed Temple University bathroom.” with his vision of a world-class The parish went through a Grecian Rock Prof. Gourgouris on Prose and Poetry institution with star sports huge turbulence a few months teams and a classic American ago with the sex scandal of its college experience for its stu - former priest George Passias Opera Debuts By Aria Socratous litical.