Well, there’s the everyone wearing black to protest sexual assault in Hollywood part; there’s the no-Trump-jokes from host Seth Myers part; and then there are the awards themselves. “The annual Oscar race, which starts with festival screenings in late summer, has been unusually chaotic this time around. For various reasons — Hollywood’s attention has been elsewhere, the plethora of strong choices in some categories and few in others — consensus has yet to form. So the Globes could bring some clarity.”
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Will Kurt Schwitters’ Last Art Studio – A Stone Barn In Britain’s Lake District – Be Bought And Shipped To China?
The building’s owner has failed to win funds to keep the building up – and after five attempts, it seems impossible. Why it’s important: “The Merz Barn in Langdale, Cumbria, was used by the German artist Kurt Schwitters, after he fled from the Nazis in 1940. The building became regarded as a pioneering piece of modernist art after Schwitters covered its walls in a distinctive collage of materials before his death in 1948.”