Steven Soderbergh, the Colors of Money

Steven Soderbergh, les couleurs de l’argent

Steven Soderbergh's new film "The Christophers" (2025) is a sharp, chamber-piece drama about art, inheritance, and money. The story follows Julian Skar, a former art superstar from the 1970s now living in seclusion and earning a living by caricaturing himself on social media. His children, Barnaby and Sally, eager to maximize their future inheritance, hire a repentant forger named Lori Butler to secretly complete Julian's unfinished masterpiece, an eight-portrait series titled "The Christophers." The film explores the complex relationships that develop between the four characters in a labyrinthine London house, written in the style of a lively theatrical play.

Ren Light Pan Dramatizes the Dilemma of the Trans Artist.

Ren Light Pan, a transgender artist working in a tiny New York studio, creates striking duotone images using a self-invented process involving ink, water, heat lamps, and transparent film. Her recent works center on the classical figure of Sleeping Hermaphroditus, a marble Roman copy of an ancient Greek bronze, which she reproduces from a photograph that includes spectators' legs. Pan's method, which she developed to circumvent perfectionist tendencies, involves suspending a primed canvas over a mixture of ink and water, then applying heat to transfer the image over one to two hours. She has also made works based on her own body, though she has abandoned the durational performance aspect since transitioning.