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Well, someone* made this hi-larious video of the best of James Franco’s comments about the cultural diversity in Palo Alto (or whatever the hell he was talking about) in his latest Huffington Post blog about Girls. Enjoy! Read More
On Tuesday, a foundation set up by the artist Cy Twombly before his death in 2011 purchased a mansion on East 82nd Street for $27.5 million. They plan to turn the five-story building into “and education center and small museum to celebrate the artist’s work and burnish his reputation,” according to the Wall Street Journal. Read More
The Barnes Foundation’s galleries got a little wild last week as more guests than expected arrived at the museum, which has timed tickets to control flow through the space. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the culprit was a bug in the online system that distributes tickets, resulting in double bookings for time slots. Read More
Jane Krakowski is to make her Town Hall debut next Friday, June 8, with a cabaret act inspired by women chanteuses of past vintage–like Ann-Margret, Mitzi Gaynor, and Eartha Kitt. The 30 Rock co-star re-discovered Ms. Gaynor’s work while watching a PBS pledge drive. “I was transfixed. I was blown away–these were TV shows that Read More
Our good friend James Franco, a new blogger for The Huffington Post, has finally weighed in on the cultural phenomenon that is Lena Dunham’s HBO show, Girls. Thank God. Read More
It’s been one brilliant season for animals in art.
After years of taxidermy sculptures, live creatures are en vogue. Darren Bader offered up an iguana and adorable cats at his MoMA PS1 show. Bjarne Melgaard hired two adorable five-and-a-half-month-old white tigers to model collars made by designer Ms. Fitz for his show at Ramiken Crucible. This summer, Nina Beier will present “a performance in which a live dog plays dead as it lies on a Persian rug” at Metro Pictures. No doubt there will be more animal art on the horizon. Read More
The names just keep coming! The latest country to put forward its representative for the 2013 Venice Biennale is Japan, which announced that the high honor will go to Koki Tanaka. Mike Kuraya, the chief curator of the department of fine arts at Tokyo’s National Museum of Modern Art will handle curatorial duties. Artforum has the story, which reports: “Kuraya states that he plans to use the pavilion as a platform for sharing experiences surrounding disaster, noting that any message coming from Japan will necessarily be in the context of the 2011 earthquake.” Read More
The screen adaptation of Broadway smash Les Miserables has its first trailer, wherein but one cast member–Anne Hathaway as prostitute Fantine–is heard to sing. She’s a little squeaky on the high notes, but we’re reserving judgment! A lot of slightly askew camera angles here thanks to unique stylist Tom Hooper, whose last film, The King’s Read More
If you walk the High Line park at night, you’ll see emus, elephants and psychedelic monkeys in mid-swing, all aglow. And this is without the use of hallucinogens. A group of artists including Sun Bae, Stuart Braunstein and Jordan Betten have transformed a Chelsea rooftop, between West 27th and 28th Streets, into a glowing sculpture garden with sound and video. Read More
The Museum of Modern Art is turning out to be quite the poetry patron these days. First, as part of their “Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language” exhibition, MoMA installed John Giorno’s 1969 piece, Dial-a-Poem, in which a telephone plays back recordings of poets reading from their work (it’s also available on their web site). Now, the museum is celebrating its former employee, one of the great poets of the twentieth century, Frank O’Hara, who worked as an assistant curator at MoMA’s department of painting and sculpture and wrote many canonical works during his lunch breaks. Read More
