“Without Mr. Weinstein, this studio, already struggling at the box office and hobbled by an exodus of senior staff members in recent years, is in serious trouble. The movie and television company’s other founder and co-chairman, Bob Weinstein, has a substantial track record running Dimension Films, a label dedicated to horror movies and family fare, like the Spy Kids franchise. [David] Glasser, sometimes referred to in Hollywood as the third Weinstein brother, is an experienced executive. But Harvey Weinstein is the one who called – or screamed – the shots, often pushing the company forward by sheer force of will.”
Tag: 10.07.17
ArtPrize’s 200K Public Grand Prize Goes To Lincoln Portrait Made Of Lincoln Pennies
“ArtPrize Nine [audience] voters gave Battle Creek graphic designer Richard Schlatter the $200,000 Grand Prize for his 12-foot portrait of Abraham Lincoln made from about 24,500 pennies that bear Lincoln’s image. … Schlatter said he decided to create the portrait after he was mesmerized by the various shades of pennies he had accumulated.” (To see all the 2017 ArtPrize category winners, click here.)
Outdoor Feast For 250 People Wins ArtPrize’s 200K Juried Grand Prize
“Heartside Community Meal, an outdoor meal for 250 guests in Heartside Park [in Grand Rapids] on Sept. 23, was entered by Seitu Jones, a Saint Paul, Minnesota, artist who teaches urban food systems at the University of Minnesota.” (To see all the 2017 ArtPrize category winners, click here.)
Holly Block, Ex-Director Of Bronx Museum, Dies Of Cancer
“As executive director of the Bronx Museum, Block significantly altered the museum’s presence in the New York art world over the course of her decade-long tenure there, including a decision in 2012 to stop charging admission fees. Between 2012 and 2016, as a result of the change in admissions policy, the museum quadrupled its attendance.”
London’s Imperial War Museum Intervenes In Holocaust Memorial Planning
Really? Yes: Just weeks before the London Memorial’s design competition winner is announced, “the Imperial War Museum (IWM) is calling for the plan for an educational complex below the memorial to be reconsidered because it will compete with its own new Holocaust centre, opening in 2020, less than a mile away.”
Back When Dance Halls Ruled The Social Scene Of Every Town
Between the 1920s and the 1970s, dance halls – including, perhaps especially, in Scotland – created places where women had far more freedom than they did in other areas of life.
Is Science Fiction Actually Rather Religious? [AUDIO]
Adam Savage, who used to host Mythbusters, says he thinks so. “I’m not positive that literature could satisfy that deep need for the transcendent, but I hope it can, because for me it really has.”
Was Harvey Weinstein’s (Alleged) Harassment An Open Secret In Hollywood?
Women, at least those willing to speak on record, say it was. But it’s not as if Weinstein is alone. “The scandal has shone a harsh light on a culture of sexual misconduct that some say prevails in a male-dominated film and television industry that has barely changed in the last 40 years.”
A Native American Artist Finds Freedom In Chaos
Jeffrey Gibson says that earlier, “Every studio visit I had turned into me doing Native American Art 101. … People came in with zero to no knowledge. It was simplistic. So I wasn’t developing myself.” But things changed to “a complex cocktail of beauty and ugliness” after he and his husband moved away from Brooklyn, bought an old schoolhouse, and had a child.
After A Huge Pushback From Fans, Marvel Ends Its Relationship With Defense Contractor
Marvel had already canceled its New York Comic Con “activation” event with bombmaker/dronemaker/etc. Northrup Grumman, and now the partnership is over entirely. “Fans immediately called out Marvel for seemingly promoting the military-industrial complex to children, and cited the fact that Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) eventually gave up manufacturing war materials, pointing out that a partnership with a military contractor was antithetical to Stark’s character development.”