A few years ago, Eric Wareheim took a photo of his then-girlfriend's naked ass and sent it to an ice sculptor. Wareheim likes to throw raucous house parties "based on different parts of anatomy," he says. "I did one called Black Cock [black light and penis-themed]. Another one was Laser Boobs." The sculptor took Wareheim's photo and used it to carve an enormous ice butt, which became the centerpiece of an ass-focused party called Snow Booty. The sculpture had a canal carved into it that served as a conduit for booze, with its lower opening at the butt hole.
- 9/26/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Billy Zane couldn't help pointing out the irony of the cause that reunited him with Titanic costars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet Wednesday.
"Gangs back together," Zane captioned a photo of the three Hollywood heavyweights on social media. "Now we're saving icebergs. Go figure…"
The trio made up one of the most memorable love triangles in cinematic history, with 1997's Oscar-winning blockbuster Titanic – a movie that largely revolved around the imminent destruction of a ship after it hit an iceberg. In the classic, DiCaprio and Winslet played Jack and Rose,...
"Gangs back together," Zane captioned a photo of the three Hollywood heavyweights on social media. "Now we're saving icebergs. Go figure…"
The trio made up one of the most memorable love triangles in cinematic history, with 1997's Oscar-winning blockbuster Titanic – a movie that largely revolved around the imminent destruction of a ship after it hit an iceberg. In the classic, DiCaprio and Winslet played Jack and Rose,...
- 7/27/2017
- Rollingstone.com
The “Material Girl” helped raise $30 million in one night for Leonardo DiCaprio‘s charity auction this year.
Madonna performed as a surprise guest for the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s fourth annual fundraising gala in St. Tropez, France on Thursday night.
The singer, 58, played a collection of hits for the star-studded gathering that included Prince Albert II of Monaco, Madonna’s ex Sean Penn, Uma Thurman, Jared Leto, Cate Blanchett, Marion Cotillard, Kate Hudson, Tobey Maguire, Edward Norton and Tom Hanks.
The event also featured Titanic reunion – Leo posed for a selfie with Kate Winslet and Billy Zane, who played Winslet’s wealthy fiancé.
Madonna performed as a surprise guest for the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s fourth annual fundraising gala in St. Tropez, France on Thursday night.
The singer, 58, played a collection of hits for the star-studded gathering that included Prince Albert II of Monaco, Madonna’s ex Sean Penn, Uma Thurman, Jared Leto, Cate Blanchett, Marion Cotillard, Kate Hudson, Tobey Maguire, Edward Norton and Tom Hanks.
The event also featured Titanic reunion – Leo posed for a selfie with Kate Winslet and Billy Zane, who played Winslet’s wealthy fiancé.
- 7/27/2017
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
Tattooed Tokyo – A Combination of Factors Prince Gallery, Copenhagen
In his Post-Apocalyptic Tattoo (1998-2008) and Graffoo series (2006-2009) -- currently on show at Prince Gallery in Copenhagen -- D. Dominick Lombardi playfully tackles the theme of the human condition. In these series, a distant future is imagined where pollutants, transgenic food and tainted water cause genetic mutations at the reproductive level. Despite the brightly colored, graphic renditions of cartoon-like tumorous mutations often set on candy colored backgrounds (photographs taken on a trip to japan, and reworked in Photoshop), the works tell a much bleaker story of a deeply impacted society seen from the perspective of a future tattoo artist whose final designs record the extreme mutations of the distant future.
What strikes you when confronted with the pieces is Lombardi’s choice of visual strategy in conveying his dystopian point of view. Many artists produce work dealing directly with dystopia; uncomfortable,...
In his Post-Apocalyptic Tattoo (1998-2008) and Graffoo series (2006-2009) -- currently on show at Prince Gallery in Copenhagen -- D. Dominick Lombardi playfully tackles the theme of the human condition. In these series, a distant future is imagined where pollutants, transgenic food and tainted water cause genetic mutations at the reproductive level. Despite the brightly colored, graphic renditions of cartoon-like tumorous mutations often set on candy colored backgrounds (photographs taken on a trip to japan, and reworked in Photoshop), the works tell a much bleaker story of a deeply impacted society seen from the perspective of a future tattoo artist whose final designs record the extreme mutations of the distant future.
What strikes you when confronted with the pieces is Lombardi’s choice of visual strategy in conveying his dystopian point of view. Many artists produce work dealing directly with dystopia; uncomfortable,...
- 6/4/2016
- by Erik Bendix
- www.culturecatch.com
Magpie-eyed artist Jim Shaw has spent most of his career in the shadows of his good friends and colleagues Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy. He recently told The New Yorker that that he played "Poncho" to the late Kelly’s “Cisco Kid.” Now the New Museum is giving Shaw his time in the sun with an excellent, full-fledged three-floor retrospective, “The End Is Here,” which examines his eccentric activities and includes him functioning simultaneously as collector, curator, and artist. This is not altogether unusual for artists of his generation. Yet Shaw is his own breed of appropriation artist who both does and doesn't fit his generation. His appropriation has a distinct, self-effacing quirky generosity about it — something encyclopedic, delirious, manic that helped perpetuate and detonate lots of subsequent ideas about styles of two-dimensional rendering, including calendar and fashion illustration, pulp fiction and pinup depiction, porn, and other semi-looked-down-on or low...
- 12/8/2015
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
“Long live rock and roll!” Turns out that this is really true. I mean the Rolling Stones are still filling up arenas well past the usual retirement age, as does Paul McCarthy (excuse me, Sir Paul!). Well, some of those rockers do slow down a bit and ease into more pop ballads and standards. We saw that earlier this year with Al Pacino as Danny Collins. Is the same true for their managers and agents? Hey, Christopher Plummer took on that role with Al. This new film’s focus on one such aging music agent, a fellow who will never let go of the beat, the melody. And what actor still embodies rock star cool? How about Mr. Bill Murray. Tossing him into the music scene should guarantee big laughs, but how about stranding him in the volatile Middle East for a fish out of water twist? With the bullets...
- 10/23/2015
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Diane Keaton: An impossibly cool Oscar winning actress who is passionate about architecture, interior design and red wine with ice cubes. Paul McCarthy: An envelope-pushing artist who sometimes mixes vulgar with nostalgia and who iced critics last year with a Parisian sculpture resembling a butt plug. Sure, the two may be strange bedfellows but they spent Saturday night together sharing a stage as the night’s top honorees at the Hammer Museum’s Gala in the Garden, the contemporary art museum’s 13th annual fundraising event sponsored by fashion house Bottega Veneta. The celebration is always a hot gathering of a demographic
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- 10/11/2015
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pondling Written by Genevieve Hulme-Beaman Directed by Paul Meade Gúna Nua and Ramblinman 59E59 Theaters, NYC September 8-October 4, 2015
Of all the chores on her grandfather's farm, Madeleine particularly loves crushing cans. She especially enjoys those cans that put up a bit of resistance right at the end, admiring how they fight the inevitable. Her satisfaction in dispatching cans contrasts with those times when she must hold the flashlight while her brother and grandfather feed the cows: at these times, she knows that her task is essentially a ploy to keep her from feeling useless, an insight that speaks to her relative isolation in Genevieve Hulme-Beaman's Pondling, part of New York City's annual 1st Irish Festival.
Of course, it is likely that Madeleine, played by Hulme-Beaman herself, is not actually our protagonist's name. She likes to introduce herself as Madeleine Humbel Buttercup, pronounced with a French accent, one part of her campaign of self-fashioning.
Of all the chores on her grandfather's farm, Madeleine particularly loves crushing cans. She especially enjoys those cans that put up a bit of resistance right at the end, admiring how they fight the inevitable. Her satisfaction in dispatching cans contrasts with those times when she must hold the flashlight while her brother and grandfather feed the cows: at these times, she knows that her task is essentially a ploy to keep her from feeling useless, an insight that speaks to her relative isolation in Genevieve Hulme-Beaman's Pondling, part of New York City's annual 1st Irish Festival.
Of course, it is likely that Madeleine, played by Hulme-Beaman herself, is not actually our protagonist's name. She likes to introduce herself as Madeleine Humbel Buttercup, pronounced with a French accent, one part of her campaign of self-fashioning.
- 9/16/2015
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
Even during an art boom, are the costs of an Mfa a realistic burden for students? First organized in 1883, the USC Roski School of Art and Design is the largest art school in Southern California. The school boasts of its proximity to institutions like the Getty Museum and Lacma. Its graduates include iconic West Coast artists like Paul McCarthy and Kenneth Price. For the first time in its history, however, the school has lost an entire class of Mfa students over a dispute that highlights the difficulties of such programs for artists. Roski’s rising class of seven Mfa candidates (Julie Beaufils, Sid Duenas, George Egerton Warburton, Edie Fake, Lauren Davis Fisher, Lee Relvas, and Ellen Schafer) have publicly dropped out of the program, arguing that the school has gone back on its promises for funding, as Hyperallergic reported late last week. Rather than receiving funding and teaching opportunities for...
- 5/18/2015
- by Kyle Chayka
- Vulture
This week, Miley Cyrus hits the recording studio dressed in a taco costume, Adrian Grenier says he actually enjoys going to the dentist and Kim Kardashian plays in the sand dunes in Dubai! And, James Franco says he beat up Paul McCarthy in Paris, Lady Gaga gets a back massage from her sexy boyfriend Taylor Kinney and Justin Bieber posts a new pic ... that sounds more like a message for his ex Selena Gomez. Plus, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson shares one of the most amazing tattoos of his face that we've ever seen, Rihanna looks like she's having some fun in Barbados and John Stamos walks around Memphis with a Rob Lowe mask! Click "Launch Gallery" above to see these stars' personal photos and even more celeb candids in this week's best celebrity TwitPics! Read more...
- 11/29/2014
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
Allison Schulnik’s second New York solo exhibition at ZieherSmith, Eager, included a startling array of painting, sculpture, drawing, and film, creating a beautiful, yet haunting world. Schulnik talks with Bradley Rubenstein about her new show, her dance background, the difference between working in New York and Los Angeles, and, of course, cats.
Bradley Rubenstein: I just read that you had originally been a dancer, and after watching the film Eager it makes perfect sense. There is a real sense of choreography in it. Can you talk a little about your beginnings as a filmmaker and painter?
Allison Schulnik: I have a lot of painters in the family, so I was painting at a young age. I think everyone expected me to be a painter, including myself, so I decided to go to film school instead. I didn't really have an interest in going to school for painting.
Bradley Rubenstein: I just read that you had originally been a dancer, and after watching the film Eager it makes perfect sense. There is a real sense of choreography in it. Can you talk a little about your beginnings as a filmmaker and painter?
Allison Schulnik: I have a lot of painters in the family, so I was painting at a young age. I think everyone expected me to be a painter, including myself, so I decided to go to film school instead. I didn't really have an interest in going to school for painting.
- 4/30/2014
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Eating Animals
Director: Christopher Dillon Quinn
Producers: Natalie Portman, Christopher Dillon Quinn and Jonathan Safran Foer
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
He landed on the docu-scene with 2006′s Sundance Grand Jury Prize/Audience Award winning God Grew Tired of Us and if Christopher Dillon Quinn adds more “bite” to the book to docu film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, then we’ll have a stronger discourse/kitchen table conversation about the wrongs of the farming industry and the rights of anti-Super Size Me plant-based diet. Sir Paul McCarthy is among the talking heads found in the docu.
Gist: Based on the New York Times best-selling book by Jonathan Safran Foer, this will explore the realities of contemporary animal agriculture alongside the complexities of food ethics and is an examination of our dietary choices and the food we put in our bodies.
Release Date: At this point,...
Director: Christopher Dillon Quinn
Producers: Natalie Portman, Christopher Dillon Quinn and Jonathan Safran Foer
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
He landed on the docu-scene with 2006′s Sundance Grand Jury Prize/Audience Award winning God Grew Tired of Us and if Christopher Dillon Quinn adds more “bite” to the book to docu film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, then we’ll have a stronger discourse/kitchen table conversation about the wrongs of the farming industry and the rights of anti-Super Size Me plant-based diet. Sir Paul McCarthy is among the talking heads found in the docu.
Gist: Based on the New York Times best-selling book by Jonathan Safran Foer, this will explore the realities of contemporary animal agriculture alongside the complexities of food ethics and is an examination of our dietary choices and the food we put in our bodies.
Release Date: At this point,...
- 2/4/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
In the film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Filth, Imogen Poots plays it straight alongside James McAvoy's hideously corrupt policeman, the latest in a series of eyecatching supporting roles. So does she yearn to be the lead one day?
• Filth is on release in the UK now
• Watch James McAvoy talking about his role in Filth
Imogen Poots arranges to meet in a tea shop. The music is gentle and the air smells of pine. The decor sparkles white and the drinks sound like fairytales – Enchanted Forest, Gentle Giant, Russian Caravan. A scene from her new film, Filth, pops into my head. Detective sergeant Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy) is having rough sex with a colleague's wife; she tightens a belt around his neck as he screams at her to "cut off the gas". The cafe feels wrong. It would be tough work talking self-annihilation over a cup of Caramel Sweetheart.
• Filth is on release in the UK now
• Watch James McAvoy talking about his role in Filth
Imogen Poots arranges to meet in a tea shop. The music is gentle and the air smells of pine. The decor sparkles white and the drinks sound like fairytales – Enchanted Forest, Gentle Giant, Russian Caravan. A scene from her new film, Filth, pops into my head. Detective sergeant Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy) is having rough sex with a colleague's wife; she tightens a belt around his neck as he screams at her to "cut off the gas". The cafe feels wrong. It would be tough work talking self-annihilation over a cup of Caramel Sweetheart.
- 10/3/2013
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Kim Gordon has a busy month ahead of her.
The Sonic Youth co-founder is due to release a new double-record with free-noise guitarist, Bill Nace. The two musicians are the sole members of Body/Head, an experimental group that formed in 2011, shortly after Gordon announced her separation from husband and No Wave icon, Thurston Moore.
Body/Head's upcoming album, "Coming Apart," marks the duo's widest distribution yet, delivering two LPs worth of Nace's ominous riffs and Gordon's bellowing vocals. Call it "unrock" or "scripted improvisation," the collaborators serve up minimal, raw sounds corralled by the reinvigorated screams of Gordon that seem to live in a genre all their own.
"My friend Ed Yazijian called [the music] 'alchemy,'" Nace explained in an email exchange with The Huffington Post. "Kim improvises lyrics sometimes while we're playing, or she'll have something she was working on earlier. It's a process in a way, being open to whatever happens.
The Sonic Youth co-founder is due to release a new double-record with free-noise guitarist, Bill Nace. The two musicians are the sole members of Body/Head, an experimental group that formed in 2011, shortly after Gordon announced her separation from husband and No Wave icon, Thurston Moore.
Body/Head's upcoming album, "Coming Apart," marks the duo's widest distribution yet, delivering two LPs worth of Nace's ominous riffs and Gordon's bellowing vocals. Call it "unrock" or "scripted improvisation," the collaborators serve up minimal, raw sounds corralled by the reinvigorated screams of Gordon that seem to live in a genre all their own.
"My friend Ed Yazijian called [the music] 'alchemy,'" Nace explained in an email exchange with The Huffington Post. "Kim improvises lyrics sometimes while we're playing, or she'll have something she was working on earlier. It's a process in a way, being open to whatever happens.
- 9/3/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy Rebel Dabble Babble Hauser & Wirth Gallery Through July 26, 2013 Paul McCarthy Ws Park Avenue Armory Through August 4, 2013
James Franco is finishing a joke. "Natalie Wood…get it? What kind of wood doesn't float?" Everyone is very hung over this morning, but fortunately Franco sent his Maybach Landaulet and driver to whisk us to Chlamydia, the new Bobby Flay café in Chelsea, where we are drinking revivifying Bellinis and an assortment of other smart cocktails with Vito Schnabel, Slavoj Žižek, Natalie Portman (or possibly Keira Knightley, or Keira Knightley's body double), Sasha Grey, Heath Ledger, Michael Lee Nirenberg, Lena Dunham, Chloë Sevigny, and a Thai/Puerto Rican pre-op transsexual Franco introduces as "Pinball."
We are all sweating slightly and staring at Billy Cyborg passed out in a bowl of muesli. Inexplicably, the table is cluttered with untouched Chinese take-out containers and bottles of Evian, and there...
James Franco is finishing a joke. "Natalie Wood…get it? What kind of wood doesn't float?" Everyone is very hung over this morning, but fortunately Franco sent his Maybach Landaulet and driver to whisk us to Chlamydia, the new Bobby Flay café in Chelsea, where we are drinking revivifying Bellinis and an assortment of other smart cocktails with Vito Schnabel, Slavoj Žižek, Natalie Portman (or possibly Keira Knightley, or Keira Knightley's body double), Sasha Grey, Heath Ledger, Michael Lee Nirenberg, Lena Dunham, Chloë Sevigny, and a Thai/Puerto Rican pre-op transsexual Franco introduces as "Pinball."
We are all sweating slightly and staring at Billy Cyborg passed out in a bowl of muesli. Inexplicably, the table is cluttered with untouched Chinese take-out containers and bottles of Evian, and there...
- 7/9/2013
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
I'm not sure that "stage door", our live theater series, is the right place for a video installation but since it's only "live" in NYC, here goes...
If Snow White were a real Princess rather than a fictional one, you'd have to consider her corpse thoroughly exhumed by now. From the 75th anniversary of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) which we celebrated right here through the release of three new filmed incarnations of the princess (Snow White and the Huntsman, Mirror Mirror and, the best of them, Spain's silent feature Blancanieves) and even a Broadway show Vanya and Sonia and Sasha and Spike which uses her costume (on Sigourney Weaver) as plot device and laugh generator, Snow White just isn't getting any sleep these days. She must be exhausted. But sleep deprivation might just be preferrable to the nightmare she's experiencing on Park Avenue right about now.
If Snow White were a real Princess rather than a fictional one, you'd have to consider her corpse thoroughly exhumed by now. From the 75th anniversary of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) which we celebrated right here through the release of three new filmed incarnations of the princess (Snow White and the Huntsman, Mirror Mirror and, the best of them, Spain's silent feature Blancanieves) and even a Broadway show Vanya and Sonia and Sasha and Spike which uses her costume (on Sigourney Weaver) as plot device and laugh generator, Snow White just isn't getting any sleep these days. She must be exhausted. But sleep deprivation might just be preferrable to the nightmare she's experiencing on Park Avenue right about now.
- 7/8/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Paul McCarthy's building-filling video and sculptural installation at the Park Avenue Armory opened last night. In it, videos depict actors, costumed and not, playing the roles of Walt Disney characters like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. One Dwarf is called "Too Happy"; another, seeming to copulate with a roast chicken, is named "Humpey (Humper)." There's a button-nosed naked Snow White who mumbles things, washes out the mouth of an actor playing Walt Disney, and is sexually preyed upon by the male actors in this demented nightmare drama. There's even someone who looks like a porn actor committing obscene acts with a naked rubber manikin.As predictable as clockwork, the New York Post — the Sarah Palin of newspapers — has already gone the full Rupert on McCarthy's show in two scathing pieces (one ostensibly a straight news story, the other an opinion column). The shocked and appalled writer of one...
- 6/19/2013
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
Tags: Afternoon DelightSarah PaulsonThe Out ListJuno TempleIMDbSerena WilliamsMarcia Gay HardenOlivia MunnRachel Maddow
Good afternoon everyone!
Happy birthday to Ivana Baquero, Diana Taurasi and Robyn!
Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images
The trailer for the HBO documentary film The Out List has arrived! This movie is totally going to make me cry.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter Sarah Paulson discussed shooting those disturbing American Horror Story: Asylum scenes.
Juno Temple (Cracks, Jack and Diane) joins forces with Emily Browning and Arrested Development’s Michael Cera for the thriller Magic Magic, which is now available on DVD.
Not surprisingly, Pretty Little Liars made EW’s Summer Must See List.
Tennis superstar Serena Williams graces the cover of Essence and encourages us to love our bodies.
Check out the Season 2 trailer for The Newsroom featuring a stellar Marcia Gay Harden and a violent Olivia Munn. The Newsroom returns to HBO on Sunday,...
Good afternoon everyone!
Happy birthday to Ivana Baquero, Diana Taurasi and Robyn!
Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images
The trailer for the HBO documentary film The Out List has arrived! This movie is totally going to make me cry.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter Sarah Paulson discussed shooting those disturbing American Horror Story: Asylum scenes.
Juno Temple (Cracks, Jack and Diane) joins forces with Emily Browning and Arrested Development’s Michael Cera for the thriller Magic Magic, which is now available on DVD.
Not surprisingly, Pretty Little Liars made EW’s Summer Must See List.
Tennis superstar Serena Williams graces the cover of Essence and encourages us to love our bodies.
Check out the Season 2 trailer for The Newsroom featuring a stellar Marcia Gay Harden and a violent Olivia Munn. The Newsroom returns to HBO on Sunday,...
- 6/11/2013
- by Bridget McManus
- AfterEllen.com
What made the actor dress up as Janet Leigh and recreate her murder in Psycho? Here, he explains the thinking behind his latest artwork
What interests me about Psycho is how the film addresses one man's imaginary life – how Norman Bates keeps his mother alive in the world of his imagination. It's all about role-playing: he plays her and the character then takes him over. And he excuses his extreme actions, including murder, because they occur when he has slipped into a different psychological state. I do love Hitchcock's 1960 film, but Psycho Nacirema, the art installation I have made with the Scottish video artist Douglas Gordon, isn't supposed to be a homage.
The show is about using films and performances as the inspiration for new works. Last year, I did a collaborative show with a group of artists that included Douglas, the film-maker Harmony Korine and the La-based artist Paul McCarthy.
What interests me about Psycho is how the film addresses one man's imaginary life – how Norman Bates keeps his mother alive in the world of his imagination. It's all about role-playing: he plays her and the character then takes him over. And he excuses his extreme actions, including murder, because they occur when he has slipped into a different psychological state. I do love Hitchcock's 1960 film, but Psycho Nacirema, the art installation I have made with the Scottish video artist Douglas Gordon, isn't supposed to be a homage.
The show is about using films and performances as the inspiration for new works. Last year, I did a collaborative show with a group of artists that included Douglas, the film-maker Harmony Korine and the La-based artist Paul McCarthy.
- 6/10/2013
- by Skye Sherwin
- The Guardian - Film News
James Franco’s new art film Interior. Leather Bar., directed by him and filmmaker Travis Mathews, is all about gay sex, and Franco’s damn proud of it.
Premiering at this week’s Sundance Film Festival, the gay S&M film reimagining 40 minutes of footage rumored to be taken out of William Friedkin’s 1980 drama Cruising blurs the boundaries between observer and observed, truth and fiction, delight and pain.
Just check out this seriously Not Safe For Work exclusive clip from the movie, below, featuring Franco — playing a version of himself — flinching as a man is pleasurably beaten off camera.
Premiering at this week’s Sundance Film Festival, the gay S&M film reimagining 40 minutes of footage rumored to be taken out of William Friedkin’s 1980 drama Cruising blurs the boundaries between observer and observed, truth and fiction, delight and pain.
Just check out this seriously Not Safe For Work exclusive clip from the movie, below, featuring Franco — playing a version of himself — flinching as a man is pleasurably beaten off camera.
- 1/15/2013
- by Solvej Schou
- EW - Inside Movies
March 23
8:00 p.m.
The Menil Collection (outdoors)
1533 Sul Ross
Houston, Texas 77006
Hosted by: Aurora Picture Show
Inspired by the Menil Collection‘s retrospective of the drawings of Richard Serra, which is currently on display until June 10, Aurora Picture Show curator Mary Magsamen will screen a series of short films that focus on gestures and lines created through animation, documentary and/or computer graphics.
This is an outdoor screening, so please bring your own blankets, lawn chairs and, if you like, a picnic dinner.
The Richard Serra exhibit inside the Menil is the first retrospective of the sculptor’s drawings, some of which have directly inspired his sculpture work while some remain completely independent of his other art. The show is organized chronologically and includes new large-scale works that were produced specifically for this exhibit.
The films and videos that will be shown, which range from work by accomplished filmmakers...
8:00 p.m.
The Menil Collection (outdoors)
1533 Sul Ross
Houston, Texas 77006
Hosted by: Aurora Picture Show
Inspired by the Menil Collection‘s retrospective of the drawings of Richard Serra, which is currently on display until June 10, Aurora Picture Show curator Mary Magsamen will screen a series of short films that focus on gestures and lines created through animation, documentary and/or computer graphics.
This is an outdoor screening, so please bring your own blankets, lawn chairs and, if you like, a picnic dinner.
The Richard Serra exhibit inside the Menil is the first retrospective of the sculptor’s drawings, some of which have directly inspired his sculpture work while some remain completely independent of his other art. The show is organized chronologically and includes new large-scale works that were produced specifically for this exhibit.
The films and videos that will be shown, which range from work by accomplished filmmakers...
- 3/19/2012
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Joyce Pensato: Batman Returns Friedrich Petzel Gallery Through February 25, 2012
In the 1970s, The Joker, Batman's greatest nemesis, had his own nine-issue comic book series, in which he faced off against a variety of both superheroes and supervillains. Because of the restrictive "comic books code," "good" ultimately had to triumph over "evil" in every storyline. This led to some creative writing strategies -- that is, how to make one of the most morally unhinged villains in superhero lore appear to do something "good" every third issue.
In the fourth and fifth issue, this problem was solved by The Joker's kidnapping of a Charles Schultz-like character and keeping him a prisoner in the HaHaHacienda. Although The Joker demanded a huge ransom for the return of Gotham's beloved cartoonist, he also derived great, sadistic pleasure from forcing the artist to write cartoons in which the Charlie Brown character was drowned, beaten up,...
In the 1970s, The Joker, Batman's greatest nemesis, had his own nine-issue comic book series, in which he faced off against a variety of both superheroes and supervillains. Because of the restrictive "comic books code," "good" ultimately had to triumph over "evil" in every storyline. This led to some creative writing strategies -- that is, how to make one of the most morally unhinged villains in superhero lore appear to do something "good" every third issue.
In the fourth and fifth issue, this problem was solved by The Joker's kidnapping of a Charles Schultz-like character and keeping him a prisoner in the HaHaHacienda. Although The Joker demanded a huge ransom for the return of Gotham's beloved cartoonist, he also derived great, sadistic pleasure from forcing the artist to write cartoons in which the Charlie Brown character was drowned, beaten up,...
- 2/5/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Mike Kelley, the daring and influential contemporary installation artist who counted the band Sonic Youth and artist Paul McCarthy among his collaborators, has died, police said Wednesday. He was 57. Kelley's body was found at his home Tuesday night and it appeared he had committed suicide, South Pasadena Police Sgt. Robert Bartl said, without providing further information on the death. An autopsy was pending. The artist's death brings to a tragic end a career empowered by both a punk-rock rebelliousness and pop-culture kitsch. He famously filled spaces with sculptures and unorthodox objects, and his solo exhibit "Catholic Tastes"
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- 2/2/2012
- by The Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paul McCarthy: The Dwarves, The Forests Hauser and Wirth Through December 17, 2011
Once upon a time, as a queen sat sewing at her window, she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell on the snow gathered on the ebony windowsill. As she looked at the blood she said, "Oh, how I wish I had a daughter who had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair black as ebony." Soon after, the queen gave birth to a baby girl whose skin was white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair black as ebony. She named her Snow White. The Dwarves, The Forests is the first exhibition of sculptures to come from Paul McCarthy's recent exploration of the classic 19th century German folk tale Snow White (Schneewittchen) and of the modern reinterpretation, Disney's 1937 animated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Bronze sculptures...
Once upon a time, as a queen sat sewing at her window, she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell on the snow gathered on the ebony windowsill. As she looked at the blood she said, "Oh, how I wish I had a daughter who had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair black as ebony." Soon after, the queen gave birth to a baby girl whose skin was white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair black as ebony. She named her Snow White. The Dwarves, The Forests is the first exhibition of sculptures to come from Paul McCarthy's recent exploration of the classic 19th century German folk tale Snow White (Schneewittchen) and of the modern reinterpretation, Disney's 1937 animated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Bronze sculptures...
- 12/8/2011
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
A month ago today, an announcement appeared that had Twitter all aflutter: "On the occasion of the centennial of the birth of acclaimed film director and Hollywood legend Nicholas Ray (Galesville, 7 August 1911 - New York, 16 June 1979), the Venice Film Festival announces the world premiere screening on Sunday 4 September at the Lido of the restored/reconstructed copy of We Can't Go Home Again, the definitive version that is faithful to the original idea of Ray's posthumous masterpiece." A panel followed yesterday's screening, "with the participation of American director and actor James Franco and Spanish director Victor Erice, author with Jos Oliver of the book Nicholas Ray y su tiempo (Madrid, 1986). Also invited at the panel are the acclaimed visual artist and filmmaker Douglas Gordon, and Henry Hopper — the son of Dennis Hopper, who starred in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and accompanied Nicholas Ray in several of his subsequent artistic endeavors. Henry Hopper...
- 9/6/2011
- MUBI
HollywoodNews.com: There’s been a lot of speculation about why James Franco’s art installation in New York was shut down last week. His “High Low/Rob Lowe” show at the Asia Song Society in Soho (aka Ass) had a hot (literally) opening night, but then was suddenly put out of business. The show included readings from Rob Lowe’s recent autobiography on video. But it also included the “Three’s Company” installation that Franco put together last winter at Sundance. That piece was fun and a big hit. Actor Richard Kline, who played Larry on the show, even came to Sundance to check it out.
But apparently the creators of “Three’s Company” had only given permission for use at Sundance, and didn’t realize it could go on to other venues. Franco’s astute manager Miles Levy realized this too late, and decided it was best to...
But apparently the creators of “Three’s Company” had only given permission for use at Sundance, and didn’t realize it could go on to other venues. Franco’s astute manager Miles Levy realized this too late, and decided it was best to...
- 8/17/2011
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
The ABC’s latest political satire, At Home With Julia, wraps today. The series, which invites Australians into The Lodge and life of Prime Minister Gillard (Amanda Bishop) and her partner Tim Mathieson (Phil Lloyd) is set to air on ABC1 on Wednesday 7 September, 9.30pm.
The 4×30 minute series finds the Prime Minister and Mathieson struggling with alone time as they get harrassed by Bob Katter, live in fear of terrorist attacks and receive unsolicited advice from Paul Keating.
In a statement, Executive Producer/co-writer Rick Kalowski said, “We can’t believe the quality of the cast we got. Or how little we were able to pay them.”
With a cast of sketch and stage comedians, the production is set to spoof Kevin Rudd (Paul McCarthy), Paul Keating and Tony Jones (both played by Jonathon Biggins), Wayne Swan (Alan Dukes) Tony Abbott (Nicholas Cassim), Bob Katter (Drew Forsythe), and Rob Oakeshott...
The 4×30 minute series finds the Prime Minister and Mathieson struggling with alone time as they get harrassed by Bob Katter, live in fear of terrorist attacks and receive unsolicited advice from Paul Keating.
In a statement, Executive Producer/co-writer Rick Kalowski said, “We can’t believe the quality of the cast we got. Or how little we were able to pay them.”
With a cast of sketch and stage comedians, the production is set to spoof Kevin Rudd (Paul McCarthy), Paul Keating and Tony Jones (both played by Jonathon Biggins), Wayne Swan (Alan Dukes) Tony Abbott (Nicholas Cassim), Bob Katter (Drew Forsythe), and Rob Oakeshott...
- 8/12/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
James asked Rob to contribute to his piece in a major art exhibit but, apparently, the ‘Twilight’ heartthrob ‘didn’t get the point’!
James Franco is an actor, director, writer, and student so it’s no surprise he’d stretch himself even further into the world of contemporary art. James is participating in the invite-only Venice Biennale art exhibit, but apparently fellow-actor Robert Pattinson thinks the 127 Hours star should stick to acting!
In an interview with Playboy, James revealed plans for his project, to be presented at the Venice, Italy, art exhibit, but admitted that not everyone was a fan of his ideas!
“It’s a huge project I’m incredibly honored and proud to be presenting,” said James, “It’s based on Rebel Without a Cause, and some of the best contemporary artists alive—Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Ed Ruscha, Aaron Young, Damon McCarthy and Harmony Korine—worked on different sections.
James Franco is an actor, director, writer, and student so it’s no surprise he’d stretch himself even further into the world of contemporary art. James is participating in the invite-only Venice Biennale art exhibit, but apparently fellow-actor Robert Pattinson thinks the 127 Hours star should stick to acting!
In an interview with Playboy, James revealed plans for his project, to be presented at the Venice, Italy, art exhibit, but admitted that not everyone was a fan of his ideas!
“It’s a huge project I’m incredibly honored and proud to be presenting,” said James, “It’s based on Rebel Without a Cause, and some of the best contemporary artists alive—Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Ed Ruscha, Aaron Young, Damon McCarthy and Harmony Korine—worked on different sections.
- 7/19/2011
- by Alli Holt
- HollywoodLife
Robert Pattinson turned down a role in James Franco's tribute to Brad Renfro saying he 'didn't see the point'. Franco, "127 Hours" star, who was recently slammed for a lack luster hosting role at the Oscars, will debut his movie "Rebel" at the Venice Biennale art festival in Italy. The movie is a tribute to Brad Renfro, the young actor who beat Franco to a lead role in the movies "Deuces Wild" in 2002. He died from an accidental heroin overdose, in January 2008. Franco, who carved the name 'Brad' into his shoulder' told Playboy magazine " Heath Ledger died a week after Brad, and I feel Brad has been forgotten already. They didn't even mention his death at the Oscars that year." ---------------- Read More: Visit Robert Pattinson's profile page for stories, photos and his bio Robert Pattinson as a funny man? Robert Pattinson’s top ten movies - Videos ----------------...
- 7/19/2011
- IrishCentral
Movie star James Franco is making an arthouse film tribute to the late actor who beat him to a lead role in 2002 movie Deuces Wild.
The 127 Hours star will debut his movie Rebel - about Brad Renfro - at the upcoming Venice Biennale art festival in Italy, and he hopes the project will remind film fans of how great the tragic star was.
Franco, who carved the name 'Brad' into his shoulder, tells Playboy magazine, "Heath Ledger died a week after Brad, and I feel Brad has been forgotten already. They didn't even mention his death at the Oscars that year."
And Franco admits he had hoped that Twilight star Robert Pattinson would agree to be a part of the arty tribute piece.
He adds, "Some of the best contemporary artists alive - Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Ed Ruscha, Harmony Korine - worked on different sections.
"I wanted Robert Pattinson to be in the project, but when Harmony contacted him and told him the concept, Rob said, 'I don't get the point!'"
Renfro died from an accidental heroin overdose in January, 2008.
The 127 Hours star will debut his movie Rebel - about Brad Renfro - at the upcoming Venice Biennale art festival in Italy, and he hopes the project will remind film fans of how great the tragic star was.
Franco, who carved the name 'Brad' into his shoulder, tells Playboy magazine, "Heath Ledger died a week after Brad, and I feel Brad has been forgotten already. They didn't even mention his death at the Oscars that year."
And Franco admits he had hoped that Twilight star Robert Pattinson would agree to be a part of the arty tribute piece.
He adds, "Some of the best contemporary artists alive - Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Ed Ruscha, Harmony Korine - worked on different sections.
"I wanted Robert Pattinson to be in the project, but when Harmony contacted him and told him the concept, Rob said, 'I don't get the point!'"
Renfro died from an accidental heroin overdose in January, 2008.
- 7/19/2011
- WENN
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
Funnyman Ben Stiller is helping to organise a charity art auction to benefit the children of Haiti.
The Meet the Parents star has been actively involved in the earthquake relief effort in the Caribbean country since the disaster struck in January, 2010 - and he's continuing his efforts by teaming up with New York art dealer David Zwirner to launch the Artists for Haiti sale.
The auction, featuring works by contemporary artists such as Chuck Close, Jeff Koons and Paul McCarthy, will take place at Christie's in Manhattan on 22 September.
All proceeds will be donated to charities aiding Haitian kids affected by the earthquake.
The Meet the Parents star has been actively involved in the earthquake relief effort in the Caribbean country since the disaster struck in January, 2010 - and he's continuing his efforts by teaming up with New York art dealer David Zwirner to launch the Artists for Haiti sale.
The auction, featuring works by contemporary artists such as Chuck Close, Jeff Koons and Paul McCarthy, will take place at Christie's in Manhattan on 22 September.
All proceeds will be donated to charities aiding Haitian kids affected by the earthquake.
- 4/20/2011
- WENN
Ben Stiller is organizing an art auction to benefit Haitian children affected by last year's disastrous earthquake. The Meet the Fockers star has teamed with New York art dealer David Zwirner for the benefit event, dubbed 'Artists for Haiti'. Artists Paul McCarthy, Jasper Johns, Dan Flavin, Chuck Close ad Jeff Koons will contribute work to the auction, which will take place on (more)...
- 4/20/2011
- by By Mike Moody
- Digital Spy
Wading through the crowds of more than 70,000 comic book/anime/games fans @ the 16th edition of FanExpo Canada in Toronto this weekend, we managed to score some original comic book art from Harvey Comics' "The Sad Sack", circa 1959.
The original character, named after the euphemistic shortening of the military slang "sad sack of shit", was created by Sgt. George Baker during World War II, set in the Us Army, depicting an otherwise unnamed, lowly private experiencing military life.
"The Sad Sack" debuted as a comic strip June 1942 in the first issue of "Yank, The Army Weekly".
This was followed by Harvey Comics publishing original 'Sad Sack' stories in various comic book series, September 1949 to October 1982, including "Sad Sack's Funny Friends" (Dec. 1955 - Oct. 1969) and "Sad Sack and the Sarge" (Sept. 1957 - June 1982).
Supporting characters included "The Sarge", 'Slob Slobinski', 'Sadie Sack', 'Hi-Fi Tweeter', 'General Rockjaw' and 'Muttsy', the talking dog.
The original character, named after the euphemistic shortening of the military slang "sad sack of shit", was created by Sgt. George Baker during World War II, set in the Us Army, depicting an otherwise unnamed, lowly private experiencing military life.
"The Sad Sack" debuted as a comic strip June 1942 in the first issue of "Yank, The Army Weekly".
This was followed by Harvey Comics publishing original 'Sad Sack' stories in various comic book series, September 1949 to October 1982, including "Sad Sack's Funny Friends" (Dec. 1955 - Oct. 1969) and "Sad Sack and the Sarge" (Sept. 1957 - June 1982).
Supporting characters included "The Sarge", 'Slob Slobinski', 'Sadie Sack', 'Hi-Fi Tweeter', 'General Rockjaw' and 'Muttsy', the talking dog.
- 8/30/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
As a corrective to Hollywood, former enfant terrible Harmony Korine returns. Well, the director of Gummo is not an enfant any more, certainly, but what this nightmarish piece signifies is unclear. Shot on old VHS, as if found somewhere by the roadside, its home video-style images show a group of screeching oldsters rubbing themselves up against garbage bins and metal fences, cackling and drinking and masturbating. It's not really a film, as such, maybe more of a Paul McCarthy-type art piece headfuck.
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- 6/19/2010
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
New Moca director Jeffrey Deitch might have just accepted the art world's most controversial position, but if there's one thing everyone can agree he's great at, it's throwing a party. And now, he's got a bright, blank new L.A. canvas to work with. We asked artists, curators and critics to provide some guidance for Deitch's new gig.
Time to pitch a Moca reality show to one of the major networks now that you're in L.A. The concept is your life: "Ack! The economy's gone to shit so now I'm a newbie museum director." During this 13-episode series viewers will watch you navigate museum politics, get lost in L.A. and schmooze with celebrities and art glitterati. Show title: Sink or Swim! The prize: Glory--and the USA's best museum stays open.-Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City
Deitch should expand his plans with James Franco and General Hospital and embrace Los Angeles' soap opera scene.
Time to pitch a Moca reality show to one of the major networks now that you're in L.A. The concept is your life: "Ack! The economy's gone to shit so now I'm a newbie museum director." During this 13-episode series viewers will watch you navigate museum politics, get lost in L.A. and schmooze with celebrities and art glitterati. Show title: Sink or Swim! The prize: Glory--and the USA's best museum stays open.-Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City
Deitch should expand his plans with James Franco and General Hospital and embrace Los Angeles' soap opera scene.
- 1/14/2010
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
Revel in New York is a smart series of mini-docs covering a Big Apple subspecies that shares an inescapable common denominator: their jobs are much cooler than yours. Each urbanite featured is involved in one way or another with an artistic career, either overtly (the Bushwick, Brooklyn art-making collective), or in more of an under-the-table fashion (Adam Moskowitz is a cheese monger who, we eventually learn in the closing credits, is also a painter and rapper). The artistic range encompasses rock stars Brazilian Girls, wacky live performer Ann Liv Young (sort of a Karen Finley meets Paul McCarthy), publicist Susan Blond (a former minor Warhol girl) and even Al Sharpton, who, it turns out, claimed James Brown as something of a father figure early in his adulthood. The mini-doc format is consistent without being repetitive - the subjects themselves tell the stories of their jobs/lives, some a little more...
- 7/23/2009
- by Michael Shaw
- Tilzy.tv
Dropping in on two separate London events recently -- well, three, actually -- I got to thinking about the cheapening of the evocative adjective "explicit." The very sight or sound of the word fires the synapses and gets the adrenalin thrumming. At its invocation, unbridled expectations rocket into the atmosphere. The two occasions that, well, explicitly triggered this rumination were -- and continue to be for the next while -- American playwright Wallace Shawn's new work, Grasses of a Thousand Colours (the "u" in "Colours" is the British spelling), and American artist Paul McCarthy's room at the Tate Modern, where he's installed a piece he dubs Projection Room 1971-2006. In Shawn's opus -- which is ballyhooed as "explicit" and has been received in some quarters as precisely that -- a scientist...
- 6/10/2009
- by David Finkle
- Huffington Post
In her review of artist Brock Enright’s 2007 multi-media exhibition Good Times Will Never Be the Same, New York Times critic Roberta Smith summed up her somewhat bemused pan with a general statement of disapproval for the image under which Enright has molded himself, as a kind of bad boy trafficking in the surreal aesthetics of fear. “Mr. Enright's art has more energy and ideas than clarity or purposefulness,” Smith wrote. “It is also trailed by debts -- to Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelly, The Blair Witch Project and Stanley Kubrick for starters -- that need to be sorted through. In the process he might examine his faith in mess for mess's sake.” This faith of Enright's propels Jody Lee Lipes’ documentary on the creation of that art show, Brock Enright: G ...
- 4/7/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
Contractors are to be reminded to exercise "common sense" by a local authority after it emerged they painted yellow lines around a parked car. Bar manager Paul McCarthy returned to his Leeds home from a week's holiday to discover his road had been resurfaced apart from the section under his car. Double yellow lines were painted around the vehicle and two parking fines had also been served, reports The Sun. (more)...
- 10/24/2008
- by By Sarah Rollo
- Digital Spy
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