Even as daily Covid case numbers fall in Los Angeles, there has been a rash of infections at one of the city’s glitziest addresses: 321 Hampton Drive in Venice. That’s the location of Google’s Silicon Beach campus.
The compound was, of course, famous even before the search giant set up shop there about a decade ago. Designed by Frank Gehry, the so-called “Binoculars Building” is most notable for the giant sculpture by artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen out front.
Today, however, the location is notable because, according to reporting from Los Angeles County Public Health, it is the locus of one of the biggest workplace outbreaks in the region. L.A. County Covid Outbreaks page indicates that there have been 145 infections at the 321 Hampton Drive address. It also lists another 15 at the adjacent 320 Hampton Drive address, also identified as Google. That makes for a total of 159 infections.
The compound was, of course, famous even before the search giant set up shop there about a decade ago. Designed by Frank Gehry, the so-called “Binoculars Building” is most notable for the giant sculpture by artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen out front.
Today, however, the location is notable because, according to reporting from Los Angeles County Public Health, it is the locus of one of the biggest workplace outbreaks in the region. L.A. County Covid Outbreaks page indicates that there have been 145 infections at the 321 Hampton Drive address. It also lists another 15 at the adjacent 320 Hampton Drive address, also identified as Google. That makes for a total of 159 infections.
- 8/19/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Relatively few new limited releases are launching against the likes of Rocketman and Godzilla this weekend. Sony Pictures Classics is rolling out The Fall Of The American Empire, from French-Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand and starring Alexandre Landry, in New York and Los Angeles, and after more than a decade of very limited screenings at a few film festivals, British filmmaker Gerald Fox’s doc Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank is finally getting a regular theatrical release. Indie Rights is heading out with satirical comedy Loners in Los Angeles, and Strand Releasing is launching Cannes 2018 title Yomeddine by Abu Bakr Sawky in New York.
Among other limited release titles headed to theaters this weekend are Mouthpiece from Crucial Things and First Generation Films, and Dogwoof’s For The Birds and Vertical Entertainment’s Rich Boy, Rich Girl.
The Fall Of the American Empire
Director-writer: Denys Arcand
Cast: Alexandre Landry,...
Among other limited release titles headed to theaters this weekend are Mouthpiece from Crucial Things and First Generation Films, and Dogwoof’s For The Birds and Vertical Entertainment’s Rich Boy, Rich Girl.
The Fall Of the American Empire
Director-writer: Denys Arcand
Cast: Alexandre Landry,...
- 5/31/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
1963 was a pivotal year in the history of avant-garde film in the United States. In Visionary Film, P. Adams Sitney calls it “the high point of the mythopoeic development within the American avant-garde.” He explains:
[Stan] Brakhage had finished and was exhibiting the first two sections of Dog Star Man by then; Jack Smith was still exhibiting the year-old Flaming Creatures; [Kenneth Anger‘s] Scorpio Rising appeared almost simultaneously with [Gregory Markopoulos‘s] Twice a Man. The shift from an interest in dreams and the erotic quest for the self to mythopoeia, and a wider interest in the collective unconscious occurred in the films of a number of major and independent artists.
(An inclusive list of American avant-garde films made/released in 1963 can be found here.)
On Christmas Day of 1963 began the weeklong third edition of Exprmntl, a competition of worldwide avant-garde films held in Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium. The two previous Exprmntl competitions took place in 1949 and 1958. Exprmntl...
[Stan] Brakhage had finished and was exhibiting the first two sections of Dog Star Man by then; Jack Smith was still exhibiting the year-old Flaming Creatures; [Kenneth Anger‘s] Scorpio Rising appeared almost simultaneously with [Gregory Markopoulos‘s] Twice a Man. The shift from an interest in dreams and the erotic quest for the self to mythopoeia, and a wider interest in the collective unconscious occurred in the films of a number of major and independent artists.
(An inclusive list of American avant-garde films made/released in 1963 can be found here.)
On Christmas Day of 1963 began the weeklong third edition of Exprmntl, a competition of worldwide avant-garde films held in Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium. The two previous Exprmntl competitions took place in 1949 and 1958. Exprmntl...
- 10/1/2017
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Cate Blanchett and Julian Rosefeldt talk Manifesto animals and more inside the Crosby Street Hotel Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Through the words of Yvonne Rainer, Louis Aragon, Olga Rozanova, Guy Debord, Lars von Trier, Stan Brakhage, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Thomas Vinterberg, Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, Claes Oldenburg, Sol LeWitt, Barnett Newman, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, André Breton, Antonio Sant'Elia, Lebbeus Woods and others in Julian Rosefeldt's film Manifesto, a chameleonic Cate Blanchett in 14 roles, speaks lines of truth and dare to us giving them all new context in contemporary situations.
Cate Blanchett: "Julian and I were both in New York and we sat down and he had come up with sort of about fifty characters, about fifty, sixty different scenarios." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The role of the Manifesto animals as being "another way of portraying humanity", how the changing of the settings each day "was a...
Through the words of Yvonne Rainer, Louis Aragon, Olga Rozanova, Guy Debord, Lars von Trier, Stan Brakhage, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Thomas Vinterberg, Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, Claes Oldenburg, Sol LeWitt, Barnett Newman, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, André Breton, Antonio Sant'Elia, Lebbeus Woods and others in Julian Rosefeldt's film Manifesto, a chameleonic Cate Blanchett in 14 roles, speaks lines of truth and dare to us giving them all new context in contemporary situations.
Cate Blanchett: "Julian and I were both in New York and we sat down and he had come up with sort of about fifty characters, about fifty, sixty different scenarios." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The role of the Manifesto animals as being "another way of portraying humanity", how the changing of the settings each day "was a...
- 4/28/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Attempting to codify director Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto is like attempting to unify a mass of artistic movements into a clearly defined and coherent whole without contradiction. Which makes sense, as the apparent theme behind Rosefeldt’s film is that the nebulous nature of art defies definition or unification. In Manifesto, artistic movements interact with, react to, and undermine one another through the person of Cate Blanchett, who represents them on screen, and through the mis-en-scene that mirrors the essence of the words, just as the words mirror the essence of the art they describe.
Manifesto creates a loosely defined argument comprised of thirteen vignettes, all of them featuring Blanchett as the central character in a variety of roles from different social classes, ages, and professions (among them a school teacher, a punk, a grieving widow, an industrial worker, a socialite, and a homeless man). The monologues she speaks draw...
Manifesto creates a loosely defined argument comprised of thirteen vignettes, all of them featuring Blanchett as the central character in a variety of roles from different social classes, ages, and professions (among them a school teacher, a punk, a grieving widow, an industrial worker, a socialite, and a homeless man). The monologues she speaks draw...
- 4/27/2017
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
C. Michael Norton: When Paintings Awake David&Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn April 14, 2017 - May 7, 2017
There was a time, over a century ago, when the idea of a purely abstract painting, one which referenced only the means of its creation, was a far-off goal, a seemingly unattainable dream. In the following decades this idea was tested, tried, worked, and re-worked until the project engendered many and various permutations. Post-modern, appropriational, deconstructed -- the list of approaches to this idea is legion; yet there endures some compulsion, some drive that seems hardwired, to create paintings of pure visuality. Just when we think we have come to the end of this story we find new characters waiting in the wings, new gladiators wanting into the arena. In C. Michael Norton’s current exhibit at David&Schweitzer Contemporary we see that this project still has viability. Indeed, Norton seems to open new fields of exploration.
There was a time, over a century ago, when the idea of a purely abstract painting, one which referenced only the means of its creation, was a far-off goal, a seemingly unattainable dream. In the following decades this idea was tested, tried, worked, and re-worked until the project engendered many and various permutations. Post-modern, appropriational, deconstructed -- the list of approaches to this idea is legion; yet there endures some compulsion, some drive that seems hardwired, to create paintings of pure visuality. Just when we think we have come to the end of this story we find new characters waiting in the wings, new gladiators wanting into the arena. In C. Michael Norton’s current exhibit at David&Schweitzer Contemporary we see that this project still has viability. Indeed, Norton seems to open new fields of exploration.
- 4/21/2017
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Manifesto starts with a dictionary definition of its title, and pulls off the considerable feat of not being terrible after doing so. Still, I feel confident that it works better in its original form as an art installation. The film is more of a clip show, awkwardly cutting together elements once presented in a drastically different manner. In doing so, it obfuscates the power of a manifesto, allegedly what it means to pay tribute to.
As an installation, Manifesto consists of 13 screens in a space, each one projecting a different 10-minute film of Cate Blanchett reciting speeches cobbled from different manifestos on a similar theme. On each screen, she portrays a different character. As a (male) hobo, she quotes Marx. As a mourner giving a speech at a funeral, she talks about Dada. As a schoolteacher, she instructs her young students with Dogme 95 and Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Rules of Filmmaking.
As an installation, Manifesto consists of 13 screens in a space, each one projecting a different 10-minute film of Cate Blanchett reciting speeches cobbled from different manifestos on a similar theme. On each screen, she portrays a different character. As a (male) hobo, she quotes Marx. As a mourner giving a speech at a funeral, she talks about Dada. As a schoolteacher, she instructs her young students with Dogme 95 and Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Rules of Filmmaking.
- 3/7/2017
- by Daniel Schindel
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Deals have gone to multiple territories including Italy and Australia.
Following on from the North American deal announced with FilmRise yesterday, The Match Factory’s Cate Blanchett film Manifesto has racked up multiple other sales.
The film, directed by Julian Rosefeldt and feted in Sundance last month, has now sold to fifteen territories.
Manifesto premiered in Sundance last month. I Wonder Pictures has come on board for Italy and Madman for Australia and New Zealand, Cis and Baltics is with A-One and Front Row has the Middle East. The Match Factory expects to finalise deals with further territories, including UK, South Korea, Brazil and Scandinavia, in the next couple of days.
The film questions the role of the artist in society today. Manifesto draws on the writings of Futurists, Dadaists, Fluxus artists, Suprematists, Situationists, Dogma 95 and other artist groups, and the musings of individual artists, architects, dancers and filmmakers.
Manifesto also draws...
Following on from the North American deal announced with FilmRise yesterday, The Match Factory’s Cate Blanchett film Manifesto has racked up multiple other sales.
The film, directed by Julian Rosefeldt and feted in Sundance last month, has now sold to fifteen territories.
Manifesto premiered in Sundance last month. I Wonder Pictures has come on board for Italy and Madman for Australia and New Zealand, Cis and Baltics is with A-One and Front Row has the Middle East. The Match Factory expects to finalise deals with further territories, including UK, South Korea, Brazil and Scandinavia, in the next couple of days.
The film questions the role of the artist in society today. Manifesto draws on the writings of Futurists, Dadaists, Fluxus artists, Suprematists, Situationists, Dogma 95 and other artist groups, and the musings of individual artists, architects, dancers and filmmakers.
Manifesto also draws...
- 2/11/2017
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto star Cate Blanchett is on Broadway in The Present, directed by John Crowley Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In 2014, Cate Blanchett starred with Isabelle Huppert in Andrew Upton's adaptation of Jean Genet's The Maids (Les Bonnes) at Lincoln Center. Now in New York, Blanchett appears live on stage at the Barrymore Theatre, opposite Richard Roxburgh in The Present, Upton's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Platonov, and on screens in Julian Rosefeldt’s enthralling Manifesto at the Park Avenue Armory.
Cate Blanchett as CEO in Manifesto combines the ideas of Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Wyndham Lewis and Barnett Newman
The words of Yvonne Rainer, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Olga Rozanova, Adrian Piper and Elaine Sturtevant flow alongside those of Lars von Trier, Stan Brakhage, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Thomas Vinterberg, Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, Claes Oldenburg, Sol LeWitt, Barnett Newman, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, André Breton, Antonio Sant'Elia,...
In 2014, Cate Blanchett starred with Isabelle Huppert in Andrew Upton's adaptation of Jean Genet's The Maids (Les Bonnes) at Lincoln Center. Now in New York, Blanchett appears live on stage at the Barrymore Theatre, opposite Richard Roxburgh in The Present, Upton's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Platonov, and on screens in Julian Rosefeldt’s enthralling Manifesto at the Park Avenue Armory.
Cate Blanchett as CEO in Manifesto combines the ideas of Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Wyndham Lewis and Barnett Newman
The words of Yvonne Rainer, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Olga Rozanova, Adrian Piper and Elaine Sturtevant flow alongside those of Lars von Trier, Stan Brakhage, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Thomas Vinterberg, Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, Claes Oldenburg, Sol LeWitt, Barnett Newman, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, André Breton, Antonio Sant'Elia,...
- 12/28/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
There’s an old acting exercise wherein an actor plays the same text ten different ways — as petulant child, scolding parent, scorned lover, and evil maniac — stretching the actor and revealing undiscovered nuances in the text. Cate Blanchett’s 13 performances in “Manifesto,” an immersive video installation by the artist Julian Rosefeldt currently making its American premiere at Park Avenue Armory, is the closest a film performance may ever come to capturing the spirit of live theater.
The film will screen as a 90-minute experimental feature at the Sundance Film Festival next month, but starts its life in New York in a very different form.
Read More: ‘Manifesto’ First Look: Cate Blanchett Channels Lars Von Trier and Jim Jarmusch In Sundance Premiere
Like an actor in rehearsal, Blanchett is playful and inventive, surprising her scene partners and even herself. At their best — and Blanchett is at hers here — actors are vessels through which creativity flows uninhibited.
The film will screen as a 90-minute experimental feature at the Sundance Film Festival next month, but starts its life in New York in a very different form.
Read More: ‘Manifesto’ First Look: Cate Blanchett Channels Lars Von Trier and Jim Jarmusch In Sundance Premiere
Like an actor in rehearsal, Blanchett is playful and inventive, surprising her scene partners and even herself. At their best — and Blanchett is at hers here — actors are vessels through which creativity flows uninhibited.
- 12/15/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2013 discoveries”… Katie Stern: One of my favorite movies of the year was Spring Breakers, my favorite book was Kate Bornstein’s A Queer and Pleasant Danger, I finally saw and enjoyed Me at the Zoo, loved the Claes Oldenburg exhibit at MoMA, and felt sadly, underwhelmed by the Depeche Mode album (Delta Machine).
Lavallee: The underrated/under the radar Francine was your first fiction feature as a producer. I’d like to know what lessons carried over from making a miniscule film and how did the project come to you?
Stern: Francine was a true labor of love. I met Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky through Washington Square Films (where we represent them as commercial directors) and we instantly became friends. When they told me about the idea for the film, I was immediately intrigued. The world they described (and ultimately,...
Lavallee: The underrated/under the radar Francine was your first fiction feature as a producer. I’d like to know what lessons carried over from making a miniscule film and how did the project come to you?
Stern: Francine was a true labor of love. I met Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky through Washington Square Films (where we represent them as commercial directors) and we instantly became friends. When they told me about the idea for the film, I was immediately intrigued. The world they described (and ultimately,...
- 1/15/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
He talked a big game ... but Arnie Klein folded like a cheap suit when authorities came banging on his door this morning ready to arrest him unless he told officials where to find his expensive (missing) art collection ... TMZ has learned. We broke the story ... a warrant was issued for Klein's arrest after he allegedly failed to turn over more than 100 pieces of wildly expensive artwork as well as a 2001 Ferrari Spider to the bankruptcy...
- 2/26/2013
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Dr. Arnold Klein, the dermatologist to the stars who was best friends with Michael Jackson and injected him with powerful drugs, has a warrant out for his arrest.As you know, Klein has plummeted from grace after Mj's death. TMZ broke a number of stories, revealing that the Doc injected Mj with Demerol scores of times in the months leading to his death. He also used multiple aliases for Mj in prescribing meds.Klein --...
- 2/21/2013
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The actor's latest role is as a shop assistant but art's tacit link to commerce is centuries old. Every gallery is a shop
Actor and artist James Franco is to man a pop-up store in Mayfair as the Christmas shopping season gets going to raise funds for a south London art gallery. He's played a hiker trapped under a rock in Danny Boyle's film 127 Hours, so standing behind a counter should be a doddle.
The shop is called House of Voltaire, and it will occupy a space in Adam's Row, Mayfair, in aid of the art gallery Studio Voltaire. Other celebrities are also working in it, and artists including Mark Titchner and Pablo Bronstein have designed goods for this upmarket art boutique.
What is it about art and shopping? They have a long history together. House of Voltaire claims inspiration from the Omega Workshops, which opened in 1913 (hey, that's...
Actor and artist James Franco is to man a pop-up store in Mayfair as the Christmas shopping season gets going to raise funds for a south London art gallery. He's played a hiker trapped under a rock in Danny Boyle's film 127 Hours, so standing behind a counter should be a doddle.
The shop is called House of Voltaire, and it will occupy a space in Adam's Row, Mayfair, in aid of the art gallery Studio Voltaire. Other celebrities are also working in it, and artists including Mark Titchner and Pablo Bronstein have designed goods for this upmarket art boutique.
What is it about art and shopping? They have a long history together. House of Voltaire claims inspiration from the Omega Workshops, which opened in 1913 (hey, that's...
- 11/20/2012
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Franz West, the hard-living Austrian maestro-Mephistopheles of organic sculptures that veer between excremental visions, demonic beanstalks, sex toys for creatures from other dimensions — a great anti-formalist and colorist in his own right — died yesterday at 65. I met him once, in the early nineties, and he was so grizzled and gassed I thought he was 65 then.West became known in the seventies, a time when few European artists, let alone Austrian ones, could make much of a dent on the international art scene. I have vague memories from back then of seeing his work and thinking Wtf? Using papier-mâché, plaster, wire, wood, straw, and who-knows-what, topped off with scads of white paint, West made medium-size and portable abstract sculptures that come out of the sketchy semi-dead-and-alive figures of Giacometti, the bulbous constructions of early Claes Oldenburg, the smashed-up shapes of John Chamberlain, Cy Twombly's weird white anti-classical sculptures,...
- 7/26/2012
- Vulture
This American artist's photographs of spindly assemblages, destitute factories and dancers from her hometown seem frozen in time and elusive like memories
Sara VanDerBeek's photos capture things that weren't meant to last. She first made her mark as an artist a few years ago, building spindly assemblages strung with images from art books or magazines as well as beads, twigs and feathers. Once she'd captured the precarious little sculptures with her camera, she broke them up again. Her airy constructions may recall Alexander Calder's mobiles, but they were also inspired by the makeshift roadside memorials that dotted New York in the wake of 9/11. Photographed in her studio against a dark backdrop, her images seem like memories, floating through our heads.
These early works create a surreal art-history pick'n'mix, from illustrations of classical sculpture to old black-and-white photography, and similar forms are echoed from work to work. VanDerBeek's instinct for...
Sara VanDerBeek's photos capture things that weren't meant to last. She first made her mark as an artist a few years ago, building spindly assemblages strung with images from art books or magazines as well as beads, twigs and feathers. Once she'd captured the precarious little sculptures with her camera, she broke them up again. Her airy constructions may recall Alexander Calder's mobiles, but they were also inspired by the makeshift roadside memorials that dotted New York in the wake of 9/11. Photographed in her studio against a dark backdrop, her images seem like memories, floating through our heads.
These early works create a surreal art-history pick'n'mix, from illustrations of classical sculpture to old black-and-white photography, and similar forms are echoed from work to work. VanDerBeek's instinct for...
- 6/7/2012
- by Skye Sherwin
- The Guardian - Film News
Google The Doodle museum is the main entrance into the new Google Los Angeles
Google celebrated the opening of its new Los Angeles outpost Thursday night with a party for its 500 employees and select guests. Googlers were welcomed to the neighborhood by Mayor Antonio Villaraigos, who briefly stopped by the 100,000-square-foot campus to wish the company well and encourage other La-based venture capitalists and entertainment companies to invest in “Silicon Beach.”
“We have a growing creative economy in Los Angeles,...
Google celebrated the opening of its new Los Angeles outpost Thursday night with a party for its 500 employees and select guests. Googlers were welcomed to the neighborhood by Mayor Antonio Villaraigos, who briefly stopped by the 100,000-square-foot campus to wish the company well and encourage other La-based venture capitalists and entertainment companies to invest in “Silicon Beach.”
“We have a growing creative economy in Los Angeles,...
- 11/4/2011
- by Michelle Kung
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
It has been announced via the Frameworks listserv that pioneering experimental animator Robert Breer passed away on Aug. 11. The news came with no information regarding the circumstances of his death. Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film believes Breer was born in 1926, so although we don’t know the specific date of his birth, he was either 84 or 85 years old.
(Bad Lit is also not a member of Frameworks, but had this information forwarded to us.)
According to Sheldon Renan’s An Introduction of the American Underground Film, Breer began his artistic career originally as a painter, graduating from Stanford in 1949 with a degree in that field. Upon graduation, he moved to Paris where he first began making animated collage films such as Form Phases I (1953).
Then, he moved into line animation films, including one of his most famous short works, A Man and His Dog Out for Air (1957), which...
(Bad Lit is also not a member of Frameworks, but had this information forwarded to us.)
According to Sheldon Renan’s An Introduction of the American Underground Film, Breer began his artistic career originally as a painter, graduating from Stanford in 1949 with a degree in that field. Upon graduation, he moved to Paris where he first began making animated collage films such as Form Phases I (1953).
Then, he moved into line animation films, including one of his most famous short works, A Man and His Dog Out for Air (1957), which...
- 8/13/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Updated through 5/6.
The series Anthology Film Archives is running from Friday through May 5, Drop Edges of Yonder: The Films of Rudy Wurlitzer, takes its name from Wurlitzer's 2008 novel and complements the relatively recent reprinting of his first three, Nog (1969), Flats (1970) and Quake (1974). And the series features more than films. Drag City has released an audio version of Wurlitzer's 1984 novel Slow Fade narrated by Will Oldham and, on Friday evening, Oldham and Wurlitzer himself, accompanied by musician Ben Chasny, will be giving something of a performance built on what Joe O'Brien, introducing his 2008 interview with Wurlitzer for Arthur Magazine, calls "a dark, masterful novel written in a more straightforward style than his earlier work. It is set in the divergent worlds of Hollywood and India, and finally Nova Scotia, and exudes a spiritual exhaustion tied in with frustrations with the shuck and jive of the film business." Wurlitzer and Oldham won't be winging it,...
The series Anthology Film Archives is running from Friday through May 5, Drop Edges of Yonder: The Films of Rudy Wurlitzer, takes its name from Wurlitzer's 2008 novel and complements the relatively recent reprinting of his first three, Nog (1969), Flats (1970) and Quake (1974). And the series features more than films. Drag City has released an audio version of Wurlitzer's 1984 novel Slow Fade narrated by Will Oldham and, on Friday evening, Oldham and Wurlitzer himself, accompanied by musician Ben Chasny, will be giving something of a performance built on what Joe O'Brien, introducing his 2008 interview with Wurlitzer for Arthur Magazine, calls "a dark, masterful novel written in a more straightforward style than his earlier work. It is set in the divergent worlds of Hollywood and India, and finally Nova Scotia, and exudes a spiritual exhaustion tied in with frustrations with the shuck and jive of the film business." Wurlitzer and Oldham won't be winging it,...
- 5/6/2011
- MUBI
<div>Bankrupt financial group Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc plans to sell about 450 works by contemporary artists including Robert Rauschenberg at an auction in September, according to court documents.</div><div></div><div>Lehman, which filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, has named Sotheby's art auction house to handle the sale, which could raise $10 million to help pay back creditors.</div><div></div><div>Lehman's collection also includes works by Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Cy Twombly, Swedish sculptor Claes Oldenburg and Maya Lin, who is best known for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.</div><div></div><div>Lehman said in court documents that none of the items had a book value higher than $300,000, but Sotheby's estimated in a statement that some of the pieces could fetch much more. For instance, it said Damien Hirst's We've Got Style (The Vessel Collection - Blue) could bring in between $800,000 and $1.2 million.</div><div></div><div>Other top sellers may include Liu Ye's The Long Way Home, Julie Mehretu's Untitled...
- 6/4/2010
- Filmicafe
Aside from Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper, one of the most famous artworks of all time, food is an under-explored subject in art, especially in comparison with how much of our daily lives it occupies. Artist Wayne Thiebaud is probably the most renowned contemporary painter of food, but the work is predominantly lushly frosted cakes. Claes Oldenburg has done a lot of soft-sculptures—a hamburger, French fries, and ice-cream cones among them—but no one has really made real food into an art form. And aside from a particularly elaborate centerpiece, the catering at museum galas (which are rife in the spring in New York) infrequently ascends to something that qualifies as spectacle. Last Thursday night at the Brooklyn Museum's gala, however, Jennifer Rubell changed all that. She staged a series of "happenings" that elevated her art medium—food and drink—into an interactive bacchanal that was truly lavish.
- 4/26/2010
- Vanity Fair
Exit Through the Gift Shop is a marvelous, one-of-a-kind contraption, a joyfully spinning top of a movie that keeps zigging and zagging and taking the audience right along with it. It's easily the cream of this month's crop of movies, though it's so tricky and layered that before I saw it, everything I'd heard about it made it sound a little…complicated. Maybe even intimidating. Not to worry: For all its through-the-looking-glass playfulness, it is really, at heart, a vividly direct and witty and biting look at the world of contemporary street art. A lot of the kick of the...
- 4/21/2010
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW.com - The Movie Critics
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