Zhang Daqian, a Chinese modernist painter who died in 1983, has almost $355 million in sales last year. He was a “prolific, much-traveled and much-faked artist, who himself delighted in faking Chinese masters.”
Tag: 06.02.17
Teenage Radio Cowboy, Broadway Chorus Boy, And Powerful Broadway Producer Elliot Martin Has Died At 93
He produced plays on Broadway, off-Broadway and farther afield, and he was the first director of Los Angeles’ Center Theater Group. “He often said, though, that the pinnacle of his career was being the production stage manager in 1956 of the original Broadway production of O’Neill’s ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night,’ one of a dozen Broadway shows he stage-managed after abandoning a brief acting and singing stint in his 20s.”
Romcoms With Interracial Relationships Are Finally Hitting The Big Screen
No, it’s not new to see an interracial couple on-screen (and even in Love, Actually), but “their depictions in early cinema were rarely ‘light-hearted’ or ‘happily concluded’ – both conventions of the romcom.”
Do Superhero Movies Need Superstars In Order To Make It Big?
Gal Godot proves that’s a nope. And maybe it’s better this way: “‘When it’s Ben Affleck playing Batman, it’s hard not to look at that and see Ben Affleck.’ When you see Gadot these days, though, all you see is Diana Prince.”
Marie Cosindas, The Photographer Who Brought Color To The Gallery, Has Died At 93
She was a rebel in the days of the serious art black & white photo: “Ms. Cosindas, a painter by training, turned to photography early in her career and was immediately stymied by an unwritten law: For the medium to be true to itself, images must be black and white. Color was for advertising.”
Glass Artist Pioneer Dale Chihuly Reveals Bipolar Disorder, Fends Off Blackmail Threat
“Now 75 and still in the thrall of a decades-long career, he discussed his bipolar disorder in detail for the first time publicly in an interview with The Associated Press. He and his wife, Leslie Chihuly, said they don’t want to omit from his legacy a large part of who he is.”