Most moviegoers will know French artist JR from his stirring collaboration with Agnès Varda, “Faces Places,” the Oscar-nominated 2017 documentary that revealed a friendship steeped in artistic ...
The new film tracks his work and his process in a maximum-security California prison, a Rio de Janeiro favela, at the Mexican-U.S. border and a French ghetto: "Doing that project was for them a ...
Photographer JR gives voice to the voiceless via titanic art installations in this superfluous companion piece to 2017’s “Faces Places.” French auteur Agnès Varda may be gone, but graffiti artist and ...
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EXCLUSIVE: The French artist known as JR can do remarkable things with paper and glue—and a few other ingredients, like brilliant photographic talent and a capacity to reframe reality. In his new ...
EXCLUSIVE: In a highly competitive acquisition situation ahead of the documentary’s Tribeca Festival premiere, MSNBC Films has picked up Paper & Glue from Imagine Documentaries, Impact Partners, TIME ...
The French artist JR still goes by the initials he used as a tag in his days as a graffiti artist. He’s never confirmed a name, though now his massive paper works have covered buildings around the ...
From Imagine Documentaries, Impact Partners, Time Studios and MSNBC Films - "Paper & Glue" is a project by renowned French artist JR about a very personal subject: his own artwork. Using unexpected ...
“Paper & Glue,” the feature-length documentary that follows French artist JR as he plasters his provocative large-scale images of people in such places as the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the ...
JR, plying his art of making and displaying gigantic portraits, carries on, this time without the inimitable Agnès Varda. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...
Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Mind, Body, Spirit- Part 3. The artist JR pastes massive photographs on surfaces ranging from the Louvre to the courtyard floor of a supermax prison. JR explores ...