All posts tagged: Filler

Maya Lin Reads ‘Ghosts in the House’ | Martin Filler, Maya Lin

Maya Lin Reads ‘Ghosts in the House’ | Martin Filler, Maya Lin

In the October 21, 1999, issue of The New York Review of Books, Martin Filler wrote “Ghosts in the House,” about Frank Gehry’s life and work at the turn of the century, including the architect’s own house in Santa Monica, his celebrated Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. In this episode of Private Life, Filler’s essay is read by Maya Lin. Best known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. while she was still an undergraduate student, Lin’s forty-year career has also included the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, and the landscape architecture project Wave Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. This reading accompanies the Private Life episode featuring Filler in conversation with host Jarrett Earnest. Source link

The Rise and Fall of David Adjaye | Martin Filler

The Rise and Fall of David Adjaye | Martin Filler

George and Ira Gershwin’s jaunty 1937 song “Nice Work If You Can Get It” begins with this wry observation about the fickleness of renown: The man who lives for only making moneyLives a life that isn’t necessarily sunny;Likewise the man who works for fame—There’s no guarantee that time won’t erase his name. Today the name of David Adjaye, the fifty-nine-year-old Ghanaian British architect who less than three years ago was at the pinnacle of his career, has been erased with record speed. Last fall, when three important buildings by his office were completed on two continents—the Princeton University Art Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum of West African Art in Benin City, Nigeria—Adjaye was conspicuously absent from the American inaugural festivities and barely mentioned in those institutions’ publicity materials. (Press releases for the two US museums stressed the contributions of Cooper Robertson, the projects’ New York–based executive architectural firm, also called the architect of record, which oversaw implementation of the designs, but such firms are seldom accorded equal credit.) A New York …

Martin Filler on Writing, Frank Gehry, and the Dramatic World of Architecture | Martin Filler, Jarrett Earnest

Martin Filler on Writing, Frank Gehry, and the Dramatic World of Architecture | Martin Filler, Jarrett Earnest

In this episode of Private Life, Martin Filler joins Jarrett Earnest for a conversation about architecture criticism, Frank Gehry, and the art that makes us weep.  Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. Martin Filler is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books. His first article for the Review, “Tall Stories,” about the Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, appeared in our December 5, 1985 issue. In the forty years since, Filler has written about, among many other subjects, Richard Meier’s design for the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Micheal Arad’s National September 11 Memorial, and the lost beauty and significance of department stores, alongside the opening of the new Printemps New York. Filler also frequently wrote about Frank Gehry—his Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao—and eulogized “his boldly original approach…the architectural equivalent of punk rock” when Gehry died this past December. (This episode was recorded prior to Gehry’s death.) Three volumes of Filler’s collected essays, The Makers of Modern Architecture, have been published by New York …

Would you have a boob job with ‘zombie filler’ – from a corpse?

Would you have a boob job with ‘zombie filler’ – from a corpse?

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Would you want fat from a dead body pumped into yours for a little added oomph? It’s a morbid question many answered with a resounding “yes” when the so-called “zombie filler” slowly emerged on the US market in 2024. Today, stateside clinics now have months-long backlogs of plump-seeking patients waiting to get their hands on vials of sterilised cadaver tissue. Read: Brazilian butt lifts (BBLs) and boob jobs are now being sourced from the morgue. Zombie filler – real name alloClae – was first released by manufacturer Tiger Aesthetics to a select group of doctors across the pond in 2024. When people donate their bodies to science after their death for altruistic acts like organ donation, tissue banks often collect their fat, too. Tiger …

One Piece filler list: Every filler episode you can skip

One Piece filler list: Every filler episode you can skip

Now officially over the 1150 episode mark, One Piece fans old and new definitely need a dedicated filler list to navigate the hit anime adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s legendary manga — especially for its earlier arcs. Before the more manga-faithful modern seasons on Crunchyroll or the beloved live-action adaptation by Netflix, filler episodes (or part-filler) were part of the norm for anime like One Piece, so that the series’ coverage of the source material would slow down and give its mangakas (manga artists) time to create more chapters or said show to adapt. Even if you’re binging episodes at a time, there’s no real way to tell you’re about to watch One Piece filler until you’re already some minutes in. In order to help reduce the trial and error, and help you get through the canon manga-faithful timeline as fast as possible, here’s the complete list breaking down all skippable filler One Piece episodes, mixed canon and filler episodes, and those purely canon. Which One Piece episodes are purely skippable filler? After confirming reports by …

‘Vaginal estrogen as a face filler? I think not’: Experts critique the new skincare trend | Well actually

‘Vaginal estrogen as a face filler? I think not’: Experts critique the new skincare trend | Well actually

Vaginal estrogen cream is prescribed to ease genital dryness, irritation and discomfort that results from the loss of estrogen during menopause. The name tells you exactly where to put it. Yet a new trend has been making the rounds on social media. People are calling vaginal estrogen cream the new “filler” for the face and other body parts, claiming it can smooth wrinkles, reduce dryness and sagginess and plump up the skin. “Patients are definitely asking about this, usually after seeing videos on TikTok or Instagram,” says Dr Oma Agbai, associate clinical professor of dermatology at the University of California Davis School of Medicine. Online, people suggest “applying it to the face, particularly around the eyes, mouth, neck, and chest, and some are also using it on areas like the thighs, buttocks or abdomen”. “A small number of patients admit they’ve tried it,” Agbai says. “Some report their skin feels less dry or slightly softer. That’s not surprising, because estrogen is known to affect skin hydration. But subjective improvement doesn’t equal proven safety or long-term …

Jaclyn Hill shares how filler has ‘migrated’ across her face after weight loss

Jaclyn Hill shares how filler has ‘migrated’ across her face after weight loss

Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living a healthier, happier and longer life Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Beauty and makeup influencer Jaclyn Hill has revealed that she’s getting rid of the filler in her face after it migrated over time and created a “bulge” near her chin. The 35-year-old shared the process of dissolving her dermal fillers Sunday in a TikTok video as she was about to get an ultrasound of her face. “I’m convinced there’s migrated filler from when I had my smile lines done forever ago,” she said, pointing at the side of her face, right above her jawline. She believes the migration happened after losing weight “over the years.” Her suspicions were confirmed by her doctor during the ultrasound. “I knew this was filler migration. I’m not crazy,” she said during the appointment before adding while getting the filler dissolved, “I’m so happy right now.” Jaclyn Hill says she believes the filler migrated from where …

New ‘filler’ treatment brings hope to people left blind by rare condition

New ‘filler’ treatment brings hope to people left blind by rare condition

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter A groundbreaking medical advance has offered renewed hope to individuals suffering from a rare and untreatable form of blindness, with a low-cost gel injection successfully restoring sight. This innovative procedure, which works by normalising pressure within the eye to improve vision, has been described by specialists as “not dissimilar to cosmetic fillers” due to its mechanism. The impact is already profound, as one participant in the study can now enjoy skiing with her son and anticipates regaining her driving licence. The treatment targets hypotony, a debilitating condition affecting approximately 100 people in the UK annually, where abnormally low eye pressure distorts the eye’s shape. The pioneering research was spearheaded by London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital, supported by funding from Moorfields Eye Charity. Patients received injections of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC), a clear, colourless …

Frank Gehry, The Liberator | Martin Filler

Frank Gehry, The Liberator | Martin Filler

One of the first things I thought of when I heard that Frank Gehry had died was a line from Orson Welles’s 1941 masterpiece, Citizen Kane. A reporter visits the title character’s former business manager, Mr. Bernstein, to interview him following the newspaper mogul’s death, and he comments that the old man had known Kane since the beginning. “From before the beginning, young fellow,” Bernstein interjects. “And now, it’s after the end.” I first met Gehry in 1979, when I was a young editor at Progressive Architecture magazine, where my colleagues and I concurred that he was the most gifted of a new generation of architectural aspirants in this country. We were taken by his boldly original approach, which juxtaposed exaggerated, off-kilter forms executed in cheap materials such as corrugated metal, unfinished plywood, chain-link fencing, and chicken wire glass—the architectural equivalent of punk rock, then in its heyday. We were also convinced, however, that his aggressive aesthetic would never catch on with the masses and that he was destined to remain an esoteric cult figure …

A Cowboy in Winter | Martin Filler

A Cowboy in Winter | Martin Filler

Among the most memorable interactions I’ve ever had with artists occurred during a trip I made to New Mexico in August 1992 to interview Susan Rothenberg for a Vanity Fair profile. It had been three years since she wed her fellow artist Bruce Nauman and moved from New York City to New Mexico, where he’d resettled from Pasadena a decade earlier. Together they bought a seven-hundred-acre spread in Galisteo, a half-hour’s drive south of Santa Fe, and built a compound with a ranch house, corrals, stables, and separate studios. At the time they were the contemporary art world’s golden couple, not least because this unexpected midlife second marriage for both of them was an attraction of opposites so extreme that those who knew them deemed it perfect. Even more remarkably, it lasted three decades, until Rothenberg’s death in 2020 at age seventy-five. She was petite, Jewish, voluble, and a quintessential livewire New Yorker. Nauman is tall, Gentile, taciturn, and a classic self-contained Midwesterner. He’s also a genuine cowboy, having raised cattle and trained quarter horses for resale as …