Christopher Nolan, David Hockney, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara

A Hyperallergic roundup reports that Cuban dissident performance artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was released after five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana and exiled to Miami, while noting continued political and economic pressures on Cuba. The issue also includes a review of Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming film adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey” by CUNY Graduate Center scholar Joel P. Christensen, who calls it “a fantastic success” as spectacle but says “as a reflection of us, it fails.” It further highlights criticism by London-based critic Olivia McEwan of the late David Hockney’s iPad paintings. Separately, it reports backlash after Zendaya wore 3,000-year-old Iranian gold discs—recently mounted into earrings in 18-karat gold and diamonds by jeweler Glenn Spiro and held by Barron London—at a London photocall for Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” raising concerns about provenance and the red-carpet use of ancient artifacts.

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