Wang Jingchun, who won the Best Actor award at Cannes, says, “The rising box office is a really good thing. At its worst, we hardly had a box office to speak of. There also used to be a problem with content: The subjects and perspectives were too old. Now we need new concepts, and young people coming up now are bringing all sorts of new ones to the table, new kinds of cinematic thinking. Also, foreign and Hollywood films have come in, and everyone’s seen everything. . … Audiences have these needs, and theaters have at least started to provide a platform for them to see this stuff.” – Variety
Tag: 06.22.19
Peter Selz, Curator And Art Historian Who Shaped The Berkeley Museum And MoMA, Has Died At 100
Selz’s views strongly shaped MoMA’s take on European and non-Abstract Expressionist art during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and his time at Berkeley made the museum “a locus of activity in the California scene.” – ArtNews
Something New From Greta Matassa
The singer’s first album since 2011 shows off the depth and layers of her career. – Doug Ramsey
The French Really Like Elton John
So much that President Macron just awarded him a Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest award for civilians. – BBC
St. George Gets Unrestored, And Everyone Breathes A Sigh Of Relief
The original “restoration” in a small town in Spain reminded many people of, well, Tintin. This is different, and better. – The New York Times
Amy Sherald Painted The First Lady’s Portrait, And She Also Captured This 19-Year-Old Girl In A Six-Story Mural
Sherald knew she had the mural space on a Target in Philadelphia, and she wanted to paint someone who, to her, represented the community. A young woman in an arts program provided the spark. The subject, Najee Spencer-Young: “My mom called me. She was like, guess what? … I was like, what, Mom? I’m in a job interview. I can’t be on the phone. She was just like, you up on a mural. I said, what?” – NPR