Related Images is a column in which filmmakers invite readers behind the scenes, into their sketchbooks, or otherwise through the looking glass to learn more about their creative processes.Who Is Sabato de Sarno? A Gucci Story is now showing exclusively on Mubi from March 15, 2024.Who Is Sabato De Sarno? A Gucci Story.Gucci called out of the blue, asking if we wanted to make a doc about their new creative director and his first fashion show. Sabato De Sarno (the new creative director) said he liked our film A Brief History of John Baldessari (2011) about the artist John Baldessari, and could it be something like that? He said the length was flexible, but they were imagining something between six and eight minutes. We didn't know much about Gucci, or Sabato, but we were curious, which for us is a great starting point for a documentary. A few days later...
- 3/15/2024
- MUBI
Though she’d dreamed of owning a Spanish Revival home, there was something about the boxy, modern house that Anonymous Content manager Meredith Rothman couldn’t shake. Maybe it was the floor-to-ceiling windows. Or the abundance of natural light. Or the fact that it was tucked neatly into a canyon in Beverly Hills, conjuring up memories of her childhood home in Bel Air. Rothman asked interior designer Lauren Waters for her thoughts. “I assured her it was a wonderful blank canvas for intriguing furniture and great art,” says Waters.
That advice sealed the deal for Rothman, who tasked Waters with transforming the 2,500-square-foot spec house into a home that would serve as space to unwind, enable her to host the occasional soiree and showcase her burgeoning art collection, which includes works by Analia Saban and John Baldessari, as well as a charcoal drawing by her grandmother Luddie Waters, who was...
That advice sealed the deal for Rothman, who tasked Waters with transforming the 2,500-square-foot spec house into a home that would serve as space to unwind, enable her to host the occasional soiree and showcase her burgeoning art collection, which includes works by Analia Saban and John Baldessari, as well as a charcoal drawing by her grandmother Luddie Waters, who was...
- 10/14/2023
- by Abigail Stone
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Hammer Museum announced today that Grammy Award-nominated recording artist Leon Bridges will perform at its annual Gala in the Garden, which will take place on Sunday, October 14.
Solange Ferguson, Elizabeth Segerstrom, and Darren Star will serve as co-chairs for the event honoring award-winning author Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Glenn Ligon. Also participating in this year’s program are Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson, who will deliver the tribute speeches for Atwood and Ligon, respectively. The annual celebration recognizes artists and innovators who have made profound contributions to society through their work.
International shopping destination South Coast Plaza will partner with the Hammer Museum to present this year’s Gala in the Garden. The highly anticipated event attracts cultural and civic leaders in Los Angeles, as well as artists, collectors, and patrons of the arts. Last year’s event raised $2.4 million for the museum.
Solange Ferguson, Elizabeth Segerstrom, and Darren Star will serve as co-chairs for the event honoring award-winning author Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Glenn Ligon. Also participating in this year’s program are Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson, who will deliver the tribute speeches for Atwood and Ligon, respectively. The annual celebration recognizes artists and innovators who have made profound contributions to society through their work.
International shopping destination South Coast Plaza will partner with the Hammer Museum to present this year’s Gala in the Garden. The highly anticipated event attracts cultural and civic leaders in Los Angeles, as well as artists, collectors, and patrons of the arts. Last year’s event raised $2.4 million for the museum.
- 9/20/2018
- Look to the Stars
About a decade ago, when Doug Davis was 35, he was experiencing what he assumed were your standard, garden-variety symptoms of indigestion and heartburn. Not one for running to the doctor for what he presumed to be a minor ailment, the preeminent entertainment and sports attorney and founder of the New York-based Davis Firm, contemplated heading to the pharmacy.
But the pain persisted, then worsened. Finally, Davis made an appointment with his physician. There followed a string of events that would forever, in his words, “change the course of [my] life.”
“The doctor ordered an emergency appendectomy and, when I woke up, [he] told me that they had found a carcinoid tumor while they were removing my appendix,” says Davis, Variety’s 2018 Power of Law honoree.
“It turned out it had spread to one lymph gland and it would likely have spread throughout my body,” he recalls. “It probably would have become terminal...
But the pain persisted, then worsened. Finally, Davis made an appointment with his physician. There followed a string of events that would forever, in his words, “change the course of [my] life.”
“The doctor ordered an emergency appendectomy and, when I woke up, [he] told me that they had found a carcinoid tumor while they were removing my appendix,” says Davis, Variety’s 2018 Power of Law honoree.
“It turned out it had spread to one lymph gland and it would likely have spread throughout my body,” he recalls. “It probably would have become terminal...
- 4/18/2018
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
2016 New York Film Festival poster - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Cemetery Of Splendor director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has designed the 54th New York Film Festival poster to join the ranks of Laurie Anderson, Andy Warhol, Bruce Conner, Richard Avedon, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Diane Arbus, Martin Scorsese, Julian Schnabel, Jeff Bridges, Maurice Pialat, John Baldessari, Cindy Sherman and Laurie Simmons.
Bruce Conner's Angels (1986) at MoMA in New York City Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Ava DuVernay’s documentary The 13th will open the festival, Mike Mills' 20th Century Women starring Annette Bening with Billy Crudup, Elle Fanning, Lucas Jade Zumann and Greta Gerwig is the centrepiece and James Gray's The Lost City Of Z with Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland and Charlie Hunnam is the Closing Night Gala selection.
“Apichatpong Weerasethakul is more than just a ‘logical’ choice to do our poster—he’s one of the world’s greatest filmmakers...
Cemetery Of Splendor director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has designed the 54th New York Film Festival poster to join the ranks of Laurie Anderson, Andy Warhol, Bruce Conner, Richard Avedon, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Diane Arbus, Martin Scorsese, Julian Schnabel, Jeff Bridges, Maurice Pialat, John Baldessari, Cindy Sherman and Laurie Simmons.
Bruce Conner's Angels (1986) at MoMA in New York City Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Ava DuVernay’s documentary The 13th will open the festival, Mike Mills' 20th Century Women starring Annette Bening with Billy Crudup, Elle Fanning, Lucas Jade Zumann and Greta Gerwig is the centrepiece and James Gray's The Lost City Of Z with Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland and Charlie Hunnam is the Closing Night Gala selection.
“Apichatpong Weerasethakul is more than just a ‘logical’ choice to do our poster—he’s one of the world’s greatest filmmakers...
- 8/15/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
With eight items up for acquisition Saturday at Lacma’s annual Collectors Committee dinner, there was one that struck an obvious chord with a number of industry players who would vote on which artworks to make part of the museum’s permanent collection. “My favorite piece is the video collection. I’m a visual guy,” Will Ferrell told The Hollywood Reporter about a selection of 150 videos from the 1970s featuring artists like Nam June Paik, Mike Kelley and John Baldessari. At $350,000, it also was the favorite of Steve Tisch and Bryan Lourd of CAA. Needless to say, the collection quickly
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- 4/17/2016
- by Jordan Riefe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stephen King has been scaring the hell out of us for 40 years. His debut novel, the epistolary classic Carrie, came out in 1974. Since then, the horror maestro has penned over 60 books. Now, King, 67, will receive the National Medal of Arts from Barack Obama on Thursday at 3 p.m., presumably for being the No. 1 exporter of nightmares in America. This year's other winners include Oscar-winning actress Sally Field, renowned author Tobias Wolff, visual artist John Baldessari, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. You can watch the ceremony at whitehouse.gov. Expect King’s novel on an evil medal that kills best-selling writers to hit bookshelves next summer.
- 9/5/2015
- by Greg Cwik
- Vulture
51st, 52nd, 53rd New York Film Festival Director Kent Jones Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Heart of a Dog director Laurie Anderson has designed the 53rd New York Film Festival poster, joining the ranks of Andy Warhol, Bruce Conner, Richard Avedon, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Diane Arbus, Martin Scorsese, Julian Schnabel, Jeff Bridges, Maurice Pialat, John Baldessari, Cindy Sherman and Laurie Simmons.
The 2015 New York Film Festival poster
Even though this year's New York Film Festival runs from September 25 through October 11, the Opening Night Gala world premiere of Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk in 3D, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit with Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon and Ben Schwartz, will be held on September 26.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center Board Chairman Ann Tenenbaum expressed her delight when the new poster was announced “We are thrilled to welcome Laurie Anderson to the Nyff family, and to have an artist of her...
Heart of a Dog director Laurie Anderson has designed the 53rd New York Film Festival poster, joining the ranks of Andy Warhol, Bruce Conner, Richard Avedon, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Diane Arbus, Martin Scorsese, Julian Schnabel, Jeff Bridges, Maurice Pialat, John Baldessari, Cindy Sherman and Laurie Simmons.
The 2015 New York Film Festival poster
Even though this year's New York Film Festival runs from September 25 through October 11, the Opening Night Gala world premiere of Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk in 3D, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit with Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon and Ben Schwartz, will be held on September 26.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center Board Chairman Ann Tenenbaum expressed her delight when the new poster was announced “We are thrilled to welcome Laurie Anderson to the Nyff family, and to have an artist of her...
- 8/11/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Analia Saban lives and works in a studio with a legendary past. Before she took over the space on Main Street in Santa Monica, it belonged to John Baldessari and, prior to him, William Wegman. Saban is a conceptual artist who reconfigures traditional media, particularly painting. For example, The Painting Ball (48 Abstract, 42 Landscapes, 23 Still Lives, 11 Portraits, 2 Religious and 1 Nude) (2005) is a 26-inch-wide ball of the enumerated paintings ripped in thin shreds and wound like yarn. For Cotton Canvas Thread from a 7.5 ft-wide Landscape Painting, (2005), a one-eighth-inch-wide strip cut horizontally from a landscape painting was framed and mounted on the wall.Saban still uses the darkroom built by Wegman in the early 1970s. “Everything is the same, even though I’ve been here for three years.” Candid photos of Baldessari’s life, including images of his children, remained on the walls of the kitchen area. Baldessari, after vacating...
- 12/10/2014
- by Sarah Trigg
- Vulture
What follows is a highly selective, unavoidably partial guide to the Wavelengths section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, which kicks off today. Perhaps it seems that “selective” and “partial” are synonymous enough to produce redundancy when placed within the same sentence, and in most instances I would agree with this objection. In the first case, "selective," I will note that, of the 28 shorts and features that I was able to preview from the Wavelengths section (impeccably curated, as always, by the perspicacious Andréa Picard), I have chosen to highlight the fifteen that I personally found most aesthetically and intellectually bold, invigo(u)rating, troubling, critical-verbiage-thwarting, or otherwise worthy of hearty recommendation. This in no way implies that the other works were somehow lacking, only that I could not see my way through to them at this particular time and place. A different set of viewing circumstances (the ones you’re about to embark upon,...
- 9/10/2014
- by Michael Sicinski
- MUBI
The Museum of Modern Art’s sprawling extravagant “Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963–2010” is really good. How could it not be, with more than 260 works by a great artist on hand? When Polke died at 69 in 2010, John Baldessari observed that “Any one [Polke] move can provide a career for a lesser artist.” The Whitney curator Chrissie Iles said, "I don’t like using terms like ‘master,’ but Polke is a master; he knows it, and we know it." I think of him as a Rosetta Stone for young artists, one whose material glee, anarchic inventiveness, and hallucinogenic Blakean imagination puts him in the same influential postwar class with Pollock, Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, and his old friend and nemesis Gerhard Richter. He created his own ravishingly visual, impish blends of Pop, Conceptualism, Neo-Dada, Fluxus, Constructivism, and Process Art, all replete with philosophical heft, social bite, and an extraordinary combination of chaos...
- 4/16/2014
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
From charity functions to stylish fashion and art soirees, The Hollywood Reporter presents the go-to guide of the all the star-filled and glamorous events leading up to the March 2 awards show. Tuesday, February 25 Bulgari Naomi Watts will host the brand's "Decade of Glamour" party at the Soho House Garden Terrace. Pret-a-Reporter The Hollywood Reporter celebrates its style site with a party at The Ace Hotel in downtown L.A. CalArts Art Benefit & Auction The opening reception at Regen Projects in West Hollywood features works by artists such as John Baldessari and Ed
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- 2/14/2014
- by Lindsay Flans, Bill Higgins
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One of the reasons that I returned to the East Village so soon was that my previous August art stomp with David Carbone ran longer than expected and we did not get to visit The Sweet Life, a local candy store on Hester Street. So before David and I headed off to see what the art world had to offer, my sweet tooth had to be placated with chocolate cherries and licorice Scotty dogs. What we found after David slapped me out of my diabetic coma was much like the selection at The Sweet Life, extremely surprising and varied.
Speaking of treats, Marlboro Gallery on Broome Street (yeah, you heard me right) has its inaugural show up, entitled Pizza Time, September 8 - October 6, a show dedicated to one of New York’s unofficial edible staples. Beside some great wallpaper works by John Baldessari and a debatable work, "Untitled Circle"by Willem de Kooning,...
Speaking of treats, Marlboro Gallery on Broome Street (yeah, you heard me right) has its inaugural show up, entitled Pizza Time, September 8 - October 6, a show dedicated to one of New York’s unofficial edible staples. Beside some great wallpaper works by John Baldessari and a debatable work, "Untitled Circle"by Willem de Kooning,...
- 9/26/2013
- by Elizabeth Stevens
- www.culturecatch.com
There is a section of features in this year’s New York Film Festival entitled “On the Arts.” The focus is music and performance, spread across widely distant genres. Becoming Traviata, a documentary about Natalie Dessay’s first production of the opera in France, doesn’t have much of its soundtrack in common with Punk in Africa. This diversity of subject continues outside of the official “On the Arts” section and into the shorts programs, where there are a handful of truly celebratory films about artists and their work. (Perhaps they should have somehow been jointly packaged with the features.) A Brief History of John Baldessari, A Story for the Modlins, and Up the Valley and Beyond bridge the gap between cinema and the still arts of painting, sculpture, and photography. They’re a motley bunch, two of them charismatic documentaries and the third an eccentric mini-biopic. Yet they have in common a playful sense of style...
- 10/11/2012
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In a move that seems designed to enrage critics, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles will add a Hollywood uber-agent and a denim impresario to its board. The addition of Ari Emanuel and Maurice Marciano, which was announced today in a press release, means the museum still has no actual artists sitting on its board.
Emanuel may be best known to the public as the inspiration for Ari Gold, the fast-talking, amoral talent agent who brokered deals on the HBO series "Entourage." He is also the brother of Chicago mayor and former White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. As Co-Chief Executive at the influential William Morris Talent Agency, Emanuel is certainly one of Hollywood's elite. In the art world though, he's green -- known neither as a collector nor an insider. In defending the appointment, the release focuses on Emanuel's role in developing MOCAtv, an original YouTube channel devoted to contemporary art,...
Emanuel may be best known to the public as the inspiration for Ari Gold, the fast-talking, amoral talent agent who brokered deals on the HBO series "Entourage." He is also the brother of Chicago mayor and former White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. As Co-Chief Executive at the influential William Morris Talent Agency, Emanuel is certainly one of Hollywood's elite. In the art world though, he's green -- known neither as a collector nor an insider. In defending the appointment, the release focuses on Emanuel's role in developing MOCAtv, an original YouTube channel devoted to contemporary art,...
- 10/3/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, plagued by internal turmoil, has passed on holding its annual fundraising gala this year. The downtown museum said Friday that the event -- it's biggest fundraiser -- won't be held in 2012. In recent years, musicians including Beck, Devendra Banhart, Kanye West and Lady Gaga have headlined the gala, usually slated for November. The next gala is scheduled for the spring of 2013. The shift in timing comes amid the resignations of at least seven board members this year, including artists John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha.
- 9/7/2012
- by Alexander C. Kaufman
- The Wrap
Trustees of Museum of Contemporary Arts split by row over dumbing down of shows
A furious row has broken out at Los Angeles's leading art institution, the Museum of Contemporary Art, which is pitting some of America's most celebrated aesthetes against a billionaire property developer.
Moca, one of the symbols of La's recent emergence as an art hub to match New York, is dedicated to the presentation and study of recent art and has long been a home to the erudite and esoteric. But the museum has been hit by the defection of high-profile artist board members furious at a perceived dumbing down.
The conceptual artist John Baldessari was first to resign, followed by agit-prop graphic artist Barbara Kruger and "queer-space" photographer Catherine Opie. Then Ed Ruscha, possibly the city's best known artist internationally, followed suit. Their resignations, they said, could be read as a protest at the commercial, pop-culture...
A furious row has broken out at Los Angeles's leading art institution, the Museum of Contemporary Art, which is pitting some of America's most celebrated aesthetes against a billionaire property developer.
Moca, one of the symbols of La's recent emergence as an art hub to match New York, is dedicated to the presentation and study of recent art and has long been a home to the erudite and esoteric. But the museum has been hit by the defection of high-profile artist board members furious at a perceived dumbing down.
The conceptual artist John Baldessari was first to resign, followed by agit-prop graphic artist Barbara Kruger and "queer-space" photographer Catherine Opie. Then Ed Ruscha, possibly the city's best known artist internationally, followed suit. Their resignations, they said, could be read as a protest at the commercial, pop-culture...
- 7/23/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Lee Nirenberg is an artist and filmmaker living in New York. His current documentary is Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story.
Bradley Rubenstein: Your most recent action, Redacted, involves overpainting your past works black, repeating this performance from canvas to canvas. Has the result of this performance series turned it into something like a trademark, a signature style based in old Suprematist methodology, a non-dialectical negation that might once have been witty but ultimately only guarantees its own recognition? A gimmick? Has it replaced your work as a filmmaker and documentarian?
Michael Lee Nirenberg: Originally the project began with the immodestly modest premise that, while my earlier paintings might not be worth preserving, the idea of my past history as an artist was. Therefore, by removing the imagery, as such, from the work, I was maintaining its conceptual integrity. In many ways I believe that this conceptual...
Bradley Rubenstein: Your most recent action, Redacted, involves overpainting your past works black, repeating this performance from canvas to canvas. Has the result of this performance series turned it into something like a trademark, a signature style based in old Suprematist methodology, a non-dialectical negation that might once have been witty but ultimately only guarantees its own recognition? A gimmick? Has it replaced your work as a filmmaker and documentarian?
Michael Lee Nirenberg: Originally the project began with the immodestly modest premise that, while my earlier paintings might not be worth preserving, the idea of my past history as an artist was. Therefore, by removing the imagery, as such, from the work, I was maintaining its conceptual integrity. In many ways I believe that this conceptual...
- 7/18/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
You've got to watch this entertaining short documentary on artist John Baldessari. It was made by Catfish and Paranormal Activity 3 directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. The doc is also wonderfully narrated by Tom Waits. In fact it's his distinct voice that takes the film to a whole new level awesome.
The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes. Narrated by Tom Waits. Commissioned by Lacma for their first annual "Art + Film Gala" honoring John Baldessari and Clint Eastwood.
Hope you enjoy the doc!
Source: Vulture (http://www.vulture.com/2012/05/brief-history-of-john-baldessari.html)...
The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes. Narrated by Tom Waits. Commissioned by Lacma for their first annual "Art + Film Gala" honoring John Baldessari and Clint Eastwood.
Hope you enjoy the doc!
Source: Vulture (http://www.vulture.com/2012/05/brief-history-of-john-baldessari.html)...
- 5/19/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
The photographer's new film, about global maritime trade, has been hailed by Occupy activists. Its maker has spent a life challenging new forms of capitalism
Water has always played a large part in the photographer Allan Sekula's life. As a student in San Diego at the end of the 1960s, he used to wander downtown and gaze up at the flophouse hotels through whose windows he could see money being exchanged between prostitutes and sailors. "It was Edward Hopper on military steroids," he recalls. "That was the time of Vietnam, and there were even mutinies on some ships – especially among African-American sailors who were protesting against racism in the navy. Young guys my age from the west coast were being dehumanised and turned into a few good men.
"They'd come to the fence of the Marine Corps Recruiting Depot and say: 'If I can get over this fence will...
Water has always played a large part in the photographer Allan Sekula's life. As a student in San Diego at the end of the 1960s, he used to wander downtown and gaze up at the flophouse hotels through whose windows he could see money being exchanged between prostitutes and sailors. "It was Edward Hopper on military steroids," he recalls. "That was the time of Vietnam, and there were even mutinies on some ships – especially among African-American sailors who were protesting against racism in the navy. Young guys my age from the west coast were being dehumanised and turned into a few good men.
"They'd come to the fence of the Marine Corps Recruiting Depot and say: 'If I can get over this fence will...
- 4/23/2012
- by Sukhdev Sandhu
- The Guardian - Film News
Robert G. Putka‘s Mouthful and Jared Varava‘s Tumbleweed! are two short films that have been selected to screen at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival, which will run in Austin, TX on March 9-17.
Mouthful is Putka’s second short film, a verbally raunchy comedy starring Eilis Cahill and Conor Casey as a young couple whose relationship becomes strained thanks to an overly frank discussion about their sexual histories. The film was recently reviewed on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film saying “one shouldn’t assume too much how the premise of a young man and woman discussing [male] anatomy will play out.”
Putka has also mounted an IndieGoGo campaign to help fund his filmmaking team’s trip to SXSW and for marketing material, such as posters, T-shirts, press kits and such. If you want to help out, please visit the Mouthful IndieGoGo page.
Tumbleweed! is the latest collaboration between...
Mouthful is Putka’s second short film, a verbally raunchy comedy starring Eilis Cahill and Conor Casey as a young couple whose relationship becomes strained thanks to an overly frank discussion about their sexual histories. The film was recently reviewed on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film saying “one shouldn’t assume too much how the premise of a young man and woman discussing [male] anatomy will play out.”
Putka has also mounted an IndieGoGo campaign to help fund his filmmaking team’s trip to SXSW and for marketing material, such as posters, T-shirts, press kits and such. If you want to help out, please visit the Mouthful IndieGoGo page.
Tumbleweed! is the latest collaboration between...
- 2/10/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Here is the place where I will start screaming about how everyone needs to just shut up and make room on their calendar to check out V/H/S because it’s so fun and scary and cool and such a great midnight film and so great to see with a crowd and then I’ll run out of breath from this ludicrous run-on sentence and get back to at least the appearance of professionalism. Joining their previously announced feature line-up, SXSW has now released their full listing of all films showing at the film festival this year, including Midnight features and a positively huge schedule of short films (including narrative shorts, documentary shorts, global shorts, music videos, Texas shorts, and Texas high school shorts). Some highlights to look out for on the Midnight beat include V/H/S (duh), the world premiere of Austin Chick’s Girls Against Boys, the...
- 2/8/2012
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Mike Kelley, one of the most important artists of the last quarter century, died on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at his home in South Pasadena, a suspected suicide brought on by depression. The 57-year-old artist -- whose work was collected by such entertainment world names as filmmaker John Waters and entertainment attorney Alan Hergott -- was known for his subversive work in multiple mediums, including drawing, painting, performance, video and sculpture. "He was the best, a bit like Jesus I’ve been thinking," conceptual artist John Baldessari, a former teacher of Kelley's at the California Insitute for the Arts, told The
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- 2/4/2012
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman Return To Direct 'Paranormal Activity 4,' Hits Theaters On October 19th
It looks like Paramount just plain loves Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Fresh off the announcement that "Paranormal Activty 4" would be coming to theaters this year, Paramount is moving fast, mostly because they have to, with Bloody Disgusting reporting that the studio has re-hired the directing pair to crank out another cheapie movie fast. The pair came to prominence thanks to their slightly controversial, is-it-real/is-it-fake documentary "Catfish" and landed the franchise gig, powering third installment to October box office records and the highest gross worldwide of any film in the series so far. Not bad. And if you're thinking that Joost and Schulman don't have anything better to do, guess again. 2011 has been a busy one for them. Believe it or not they directed the Google Chrome "Dear Sophie" ad that made you cry, this fall, they've been hard at work on a short documentary on artist John Baldessari...
- 1/5/2012
- The Playlist
Mira Schor is a painter and writer living in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts. She is the author of A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life (Duke University Press) and the blog A Year of Positive Thinking. She is an associate teaching professor in Mfa Fine Arts at Parsons The New School for Design. She is represented by CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles and Marvelli Gallery in New York City where she will have a one-person exhibition in March 2012.
Bradley Rubenstein: You grew up in New York City. Your mother was an artist; your father was an artist; you were exposed to art at an early age, both at home and in the museums. Can you remember when you decided that you were going to be an artist?
Mira Schor: The precise moment was during a 19th-century art history class in college. I...
Bradley Rubenstein: You grew up in New York City. Your mother was an artist; your father was an artist; you were exposed to art at an early age, both at home and in the museums. Can you remember when you decided that you were going to be an artist?
Mira Schor: The precise moment was during a 19th-century art history class in college. I...
- 12/30/2011
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
You may recognize Ice Cube as the mild-mannered star of family fare like "Are We There Yet" or, reaching back a little bit, the masterpiece that is "Friday" or -- keep going -- as one of the founding members of Nwa, the rap group that launched his career and gave him a platform to sing about his hometown, Los Angeles.
In a new short film produced by Pacific Standard Time, we get a little deeper into Ice Cube's past and his astute take on L.A., architecture and -- in particular -- Charles and Ray Eames.
"A lot of people think L.A. is just eyesore after eyesore, full of mini-malls, palm trees and billboards," he says. "They don't know the L.A. I know -- the good, the bad and the ugly ... One man's eyesore is another man's paradise."
He ticks off a list of his favorite L.
In a new short film produced by Pacific Standard Time, we get a little deeper into Ice Cube's past and his astute take on L.A., architecture and -- in particular -- Charles and Ray Eames.
"A lot of people think L.A. is just eyesore after eyesore, full of mini-malls, palm trees and billboards," he says. "They don't know the L.A. I know -- the good, the bad and the ugly ... One man's eyesore is another man's paradise."
He ticks off a list of his favorite L.
- 12/8/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Leading names from the worlds of contemporary art, design, fashion and film donated a record 2,900 postcard size artworks to the Royal College of Arts annual RCA Secret event, which culminated in a massive sale in London in the weekend.
Artists including Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry, Yoko Ono, Olafur Eliasson, John Baldessari, Richard Wilson, Jeremy Deller and Christo; designers Sir James Dyson and Kenneth Grange; fashion designers Sir Paul Smith, Erdem, Manolo Blahnik and Dries Van Noten and film-makers Nick Park and Mike Leigh all produced mini masterpieces that went up for sale at just £45. The only twist was that buyers didn’t know who had designed the postcards until after they purchased one!
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Artists including Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry, Yoko Ono, Olafur Eliasson, John Baldessari, Richard Wilson, Jeremy Deller and Christo; designers Sir James Dyson and Kenneth Grange; fashion designers Sir Paul Smith, Erdem, Manolo Blahnik and Dries Van Noten and film-makers Nick Park and Mike Leigh all produced mini masterpieces that went up for sale at just £45. The only twist was that buyers didn’t know who had designed the postcards until after they purchased one!
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- 11/28/2011
- Look to the Stars
"It would be one thing if J. Edgar, Clint Eastwood's bio-pic of FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, were merely another Eastwood film shot in the cloudy, patent-medicine weak-tea sepia tones of a Ken Burns production, with its minor-key piano chords and historically appropriate pop songs," writes James Rocchi for Box Office. "It would be another thing if J. Edgar were simply another Leonardo DiCaprio film where the star — through makeup and miracles — portrays another complex American legend whose public persona was only the smallest part of his complex life, as the actor did in the Martin Scorsese-directed The Aviator. But between Eastwood's direction and Dustin Lance Black's screenplay, what you feel leaking off the screen in every scene is missed opportunity. This material could have inspired a serious and artistic examination of the role of law and intelligence in America, of the toxic nature of secrets, or...
- 11/10/2011
- MUBI
Stars like Kate Hudson, Cameron Diaz, Amy Adams, and Emily Blunt mingled inside the Lacma Art + Film benefit held on Saturday night in La. The event, which honored director Clint Eastwood and artist John Baldessari, was designed to be the first of the museum's plan for annual fundraisers. Many movie studios bought tickets for the dinner and show from Stevie Wonder, with tickets ranging from $5,000 to $100,000! Clint and John were the evening's big honorees, but all eyes were on the ladies' fashions. Reese wore an asymmetrical number from Cushnie et Ochs to mingle with her pals Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore, who made a caped entrance with boyfriend Will Kopelman. Kate Hudson was lovely in a strapless Gucci with her man Matt Bellamy, and Kate Bosworth shared a look of love with Michael Polish while wearing yellow Erdem. Amy Adams went with a light hue to speak with Emily Blunt,...
- 11/7/2011
- by Allie Merriam
- Popsugar.com
Major A-listers came out Saturday night to honor Hollywood royalty Clint Eastwood and artist John Baldessari at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's inaugural Art and Film Gala.
From Reese Witherspoon and Olivia Wilde to Leo DiCaprio and Zac Efron, the red carpet was jumping with celebrities, including Kate Hudson, who showed off her post-baby bod with fiance Matthew Bellamy by her side.
Check out a ton of photos from the elegant evening below!
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From Reese Witherspoon and Olivia Wilde to Leo DiCaprio and Zac Efron, the red carpet was jumping with celebrities, including Kate Hudson, who showed off her post-baby bod with fiance Matthew Bellamy by her side.
Check out a ton of photos from the elegant evening below!
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- 11/6/2011
- by Kelly Fisher
- Huffington Post
Last night's Lacma Art + Film Gala, which was held to honor Clint Eastwood and artist John Baldessari, brought out many of Hollywood's most famous leading ladies and men. Gucci, who sponsored the bash, dressed Kate Hudson, Evan Rachel Wood, Zoe Saldana, and Kate Becksinale. Reese Witherspoon did her own thing in a one-shouldered Cushnie + Ochs, and Kate Bosworth added some color in yellow Erdem. Clint's J. Edgar stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer threw on suits to raise a toast to the legendary director. There were plenty of hot celebrity couples who stopped on the gray carpet before heading inside. Kate Hudson was on the arm of fiancé Matt Bellamy, and Kate Bosworth shared a look of love with her man Michael Polish. John Krasinski looked proud to show off his wife Emily Blunt, who nearly stole the show with her sleek hairstyle and sheer black gown. We caught a moment with Rachel Zoe,...
- 11/6/2011
- by Allie Merriam
- Popsugar.com
Veteran actor/director Clint Eastwood was the toast of the art world on Saturday night as his career achievements were acknowledged by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma).
The Dirty Harry star, 81, was the focus of the inaugural Lacma Art + Film Gala and he was honoured along with artist John Baldessari.
The event was co-chaired by Eva Chow and Leonardo DiCaprio, the star of Eastwood's latest film J. Edgar, about FBI director John Edgar Hoover.
Chow told reporters at the event, "Clint Eastwood is such an amazing filmmaker. I can't think of anyone who can cross over between the front and back of the camera at the level he's been doing it for most of his life. I think he represents the word 'cool,' and I can't believe we are fortunate enough to honour him at our first gala."
Stars including Kate Hudson, Zac Efron, Reese Witherspoon, Emily Blunt, Mickey Rourke and Uma Thurman were on hand to toast Eastwood on his big night.
The Dirty Harry star, 81, was the focus of the inaugural Lacma Art + Film Gala and he was honoured along with artist John Baldessari.
The event was co-chaired by Eva Chow and Leonardo DiCaprio, the star of Eastwood's latest film J. Edgar, about FBI director John Edgar Hoover.
Chow told reporters at the event, "Clint Eastwood is such an amazing filmmaker. I can't think of anyone who can cross over between the front and back of the camera at the level he's been doing it for most of his life. I think he represents the word 'cool,' and I can't believe we are fortunate enough to honour him at our first gala."
Stars including Kate Hudson, Zac Efron, Reese Witherspoon, Emily Blunt, Mickey Rourke and Uma Thurman were on hand to toast Eastwood on his big night.
- 11/6/2011
- WENN
Getty From left, Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer and Clint Eastwood at AFI Fest 2011.
Last night was the opening night of “J. Edgar” in conjunction with the Audi/AFI Film Fest. In attendance? Leo (who doesn’t really need a last name as an identifiable characteristic), Clint (ditto), Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, and one supporting actor who was way beyond smoldering, Ed Westwick (aka, Chuck Bass on “Gossip Girl”).
So. The film went down (almost an hour late) at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre,...
Last night was the opening night of “J. Edgar” in conjunction with the Audi/AFI Film Fest. In attendance? Leo (who doesn’t really need a last name as an identifiable characteristic), Clint (ditto), Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, and one supporting actor who was way beyond smoldering, Ed Westwick (aka, Chuck Bass on “Gossip Girl”).
So. The film went down (almost an hour late) at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre,...
- 11/4/2011
- by Susan Michals
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Los Angeles, Sep 13: Director Clint Eastwood will be honoured by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) for his contribution to the film industry.
The museum has announced that at its its inaugural Art + Film Galaon Nov 5, it will honour Eastwood and conceptual artist John Baldessari. The event will also raise funds to support Lacma's initiative to make film more central to the museum's curatorial programming, while also funding Lacma's broader mission.
Co-chairing the Lacma benefit will be Leonardo DiCaprio and fashion designer.
The museum has announced that at its its inaugural Art + Film Galaon Nov 5, it will honour Eastwood and conceptual artist John Baldessari. The event will also raise funds to support Lacma's initiative to make film more central to the museum's curatorial programming, while also funding Lacma's broader mission.
Co-chairing the Lacma benefit will be Leonardo DiCaprio and fashion designer.
- 9/13/2011
- by Meeta Kabra
- RealBollywood.com
Actor/director Clint Eastwood is to be honoured by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for his contributions to the film industry.
The Dirty Harry star and artist John Baldessari will be toasted at the organisation's inaugural Art + Film Gala on 5 November.
The event, which will be hosted by museum co-chairmen Leonardo DiCaprio and fashion designer Eva Chow, will be held to pay tribute to the night's honourees as well as to raise funds for the foundation.
Chow tells HollywoodReporter.com, "As we are in Hollywood, we would like to make Lacma a major film museum as well, in terms of exhibitions, acquisitions, screenings, restoration and more. We have a lot of things planned and this gala will kind of kick-start that."
And Titanic star DiCaprio, who appears in Eastwood's upcoming film J. Edgar, is excited to help celebrate his pal at the benefit.
In a statement, he says, "I am proud to take part in this celebration of the contributions of Clint Eastwood. His illustrious motion picture career is unparalleled. And I'm so pleased that Lacma recognises film as the art form it is and is dedicated to creating a world-class film department."...
The Dirty Harry star and artist John Baldessari will be toasted at the organisation's inaugural Art + Film Gala on 5 November.
The event, which will be hosted by museum co-chairmen Leonardo DiCaprio and fashion designer Eva Chow, will be held to pay tribute to the night's honourees as well as to raise funds for the foundation.
Chow tells HollywoodReporter.com, "As we are in Hollywood, we would like to make Lacma a major film museum as well, in terms of exhibitions, acquisitions, screenings, restoration and more. We have a lot of things planned and this gala will kind of kick-start that."
And Titanic star DiCaprio, who appears in Eastwood's upcoming film J. Edgar, is excited to help celebrate his pal at the benefit.
In a statement, he says, "I am proud to take part in this celebration of the contributions of Clint Eastwood. His illustrious motion picture career is unparalleled. And I'm so pleased that Lacma recognises film as the art form it is and is dedicated to creating a world-class film department."...
- 9/13/2011
- WENN
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) will honor filmmaker/star Clint Eastwood and artist John Baldessari at their inaugural Art + Film Gala on November 5 as part of their stated initiative to make film a central part of the museum's curatorial program. (Really? Film Independent hired critic Elvis Mitchell to program Lacma's film series, and so far has not announced a fall program.) Lacma Trustee Eva Chow and Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars in Eastwood's upcoming biopic J. Edgar, will co-chair the event. The gala's proceeds will be used to support film at Lacma.
- 9/9/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
On the eve of a major Magritte exhibition, artists with an eye for the peculiar reveal why they love the witty Belgian surrealist
Terry Gilliam Film director and former member of Monty Python
It wasn't until I'd seen Magritte's work collected together in an exhibition at the Tate, at the end of the 1960s I think, that I realised just how incredibly funny his stuff was. People walk around these exhibitions in a religious state of awe and I just walked round this one laughing uncontrollably. Until then, I'd always thought of Magritte as having an interesting and intriguing mind – the way he would turn things inside out or make that which was solid suddenly not solid. But suddenly here he was, this wonderfully dry joke teller. The work that really struck me that day was The Man in the Bowler Hat [1964]. He'd spent months painting a guy in a bowler hat and then,...
Terry Gilliam Film director and former member of Monty Python
It wasn't until I'd seen Magritte's work collected together in an exhibition at the Tate, at the end of the 1960s I think, that I realised just how incredibly funny his stuff was. People walk around these exhibitions in a religious state of awe and I just walked round this one laughing uncontrollably. Until then, I'd always thought of Magritte as having an interesting and intriguing mind – the way he would turn things inside out or make that which was solid suddenly not solid. But suddenly here he was, this wonderfully dry joke teller. The work that really struck me that day was The Man in the Bowler Hat [1964]. He'd spent months painting a guy in a bowler hat and then,...
- 6/20/2011
- by Imogen Carter
- The Guardian - Film News
Migrating Forms has just revealed the full program for its third edition, running May 20 through 29 at Anthology Film Archives in New York. And it's pretty impressive, so we're going to go the quickest route here and reproduce the release below the jump.
Special Events
Georges Perec Double Bill
Serie Noire Dir Alain Corneau (1979)
Georges Perec wrote dialogue made up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman. "The only Thompson adaptation to truly express the author's deeply personal darkness." - Moving Image Source
Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Slept) Dir. Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne (1974)
Adapted from Georges Perec's novel of the same name. Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne reimagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!).
The Art of the...
Special Events
Georges Perec Double Bill
Serie Noire Dir Alain Corneau (1979)
Georges Perec wrote dialogue made up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman. "The only Thompson adaptation to truly express the author's deeply personal darkness." - Moving Image Source
Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Slept) Dir. Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne (1974)
Adapted from Georges Perec's novel of the same name. Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne reimagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!).
The Art of the...
- 5/9/2011
- MUBI
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