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While our imagination can sometimes play tricks on our mind, this next story is more about tricking the imagination. Vincent Bal, a Belgian movie producer creates art by making shadow doodles turning something as ordinary as a fork into a head of hair or a bolling pin into a pair of legs.

Vincent Bal. movie producer, shadowologist 0:34

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Something as simple as a piece of paper can take on a whole new life in the right hands. Give Samantha Quinn -the young British paper cut artist- her chosen material and the sky is the limit. Paper changes into absolutely everything from an intricately feathered owl, a whale, her version of the Big Ben, or even the flag, of the United Kingdom.

Samantha Quinn, Artist 0:31

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In 1999, one man changed the way we collect art forever. His name is Will Ramsay and he was responsible for creating, the Affordable Art Fair which features thousands of unique artworks at reasonable prices. The fair was so popular, incarnations of it have popped up everywhere from Hong Kong to Melbourne. Showcase sent Miranda Atty to check what's on offer.

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Montmartre Madrid 1:47

50 years of Mario Puzo's The Godfather 04:38

M. J. Moore, the author of "Mario Puzo - An American Writer's Kwest" 05:26

5 Classic Adaptations 10:50

Shortcuts 15:02

One World Film Festival 16:49

Lasse Lau, an award-winning Danish visual artist and filmmaker 17:58

The Event of a Thread at Istanbul Modern 22:17

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This next story is about making you an offer you can't refuse. Back in 1969, Italian-American author Mario Puzo struck gold when he published his novel The Godfather. The book bloody tale of life within America's mafia stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for sixty-seven weeks.

To talk about the author behind this unforgettable saga, Showcase is joined by his biographer, M. J. Moore, the author of "Mario Puzo - An American Writer's Kwest" which has just been published. 0:25

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The process of transferring a work of literature onto a cinematic medium is not an easy one. More often than not, movie adaptations fail to make both readers and moviegoers happy. The Godfather, on the other hand, is one of the few exceptions, but it isn't the only one. Showcase's Alican Pamir brings us a selection of other highly acclaimed feature films that lived up to the grandeur of the original.

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Paper at Pilevneli Gallery 0:58

The Armory Show 2019 04:25

Zachary Small, Staff Writer at Hyperallergic 07:02

Shortcuts 11:57

Sonar Istanbul 14:00

Van Gogh 18:05

All is True 21:28

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Lying at the intersection between electronic music and digital culture, Sonic Istanbul is set to serve up mean beats by the Bosphorus. The origins of the festival began in Spain twenty-five years ago. But the festival has been presented in a compact form here for the last three years. Taking place this weekend, its mission is finding the link between creativity and technology. Showcase's Aadel Haleem went to check it out.

#Music #Sonar #Showcase

In 1913 an art show organised in New York shook the very foundations of the art world in America with its scandalously radical works of art. The Armory Art show used the phrase "avant-garde" to describe painting and sculpture for the first time and dispelled the American belief that good art had to be beautiful. It also marked the dawn of Modernism in America. For the past 25 years, this show has been one of the mainstreams of the Big Apple's art scene.

Zachary Small, Staff Writer at Hyperallergic 02:03

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It's one of civilizations oldest inventions dating almost as far back as the evolution of writing. Paper has been the vehicle that allowed for a wide variety of expressions to be physically realized - transported from the head AND heart, directly onto the page. Showcase's Sena Arslan tells a new exhibition at Istanbul's Pilevneli Gallery is tracing how the invention of paper, has shaped the contemporary art scene for the last half-century.

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