PBS Kids is taking a page out of Schoolhouse Rock with a new series that aims to boost civics education.
A new video, Let’s Vote, debuted last week and pays homage to David Bowie’s Let’s Dance.
The series is called City Island Sings! and is led by Kimia Behpoornia of Abbott Elementary and Kimiko Glenn of Orange Is The New Black. PBS Kids partnered with Augenblick Studios’ Future Brain Media for the project. The songs are written and performed by Tunde Adebimpe, lead singer of TV on the Radio, with guest performers and paying homage to Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Devo, Dua Lipa and others.
The first season will include 10 music videos, with others tied to appreciation of school workers and diversity of communities, among other topics. The visuals pay tribute to artists like Mary Blair, Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as the visual inspiration of Sesame Street.
A new video, Let’s Vote, debuted last week and pays homage to David Bowie’s Let’s Dance.
The series is called City Island Sings! and is led by Kimia Behpoornia of Abbott Elementary and Kimiko Glenn of Orange Is The New Black. PBS Kids partnered with Augenblick Studios’ Future Brain Media for the project. The songs are written and performed by Tunde Adebimpe, lead singer of TV on the Radio, with guest performers and paying homage to Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Devo, Dua Lipa and others.
The first season will include 10 music videos, with others tied to appreciation of school workers and diversity of communities, among other topics. The visuals pay tribute to artists like Mary Blair, Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as the visual inspiration of Sesame Street.
- 6/3/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Each week on “Whatcha Packin’,” Michelle Visage interviews the recently eliminated queen and shows us some of the runway looks they didn’t get the chance to use on the show. Following her episode 14 elimination, Q dives into the ways that the theater world informs her success and creativity as a drag queen. Watch the full episode above via the official RuPaul’s Drag Race channel on YouTube.
In her interview with Michelle, Q describes her preparation for the show as a gauntlet of creating outfits even before she knew the themes of the season. She tells Michelle that she’s “always been creative” and then working in costume design as a theater major in college prepared her for the work she accomplished with her drag mother where her creativity really helped her “reach [her] full potential.” She also opens up to Michelle about her experience as an HIV+ person and...
In her interview with Michelle, Q describes her preparation for the show as a gauntlet of creating outfits even before she knew the themes of the season. She tells Michelle that she’s “always been creative” and then working in costume design as a theater major in college prepared her for the work she accomplished with her drag mother where her creativity really helped her “reach [her] full potential.” She also opens up to Michelle about her experience as an HIV+ person and...
- 4/7/2024
- by John Benutty
- Gold Derby
The 32nd annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party co-hosted by Elton John, David Furnish, Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka and Tiffany Haddish raised a record-breaking $10,800,000 million in support of the Foundation’s lifesaving work to end the AIDS epidemic.
Elton John and David Furnish speak onstage at the Elton John AIDS Foundation's 32nd Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party
Credit/Copyright: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Elton John AIDS Foundation
The star-studded gala took place on Sunday, March 10 at West Hollywood Park in Los Angeles and featured an unforgettable show-stopping performance of “Are You Ready For Love” by R&b-Soul-Pop Trio Gabriels and Elton John. The Foundation extends heartfelt gratitude to the generous donors, sponsors, and supporters whose unwavering commitment made this incredible achievement in the Foundation’s history possible.
Presenting Sponsors of the event include A+E Networks, Chopard, Gilead Sciences, Health Care Advocates International, Robert and Dana Kraft,...
Elton John and David Furnish speak onstage at the Elton John AIDS Foundation's 32nd Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party
Credit/Copyright: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Elton John AIDS Foundation
The star-studded gala took place on Sunday, March 10 at West Hollywood Park in Los Angeles and featured an unforgettable show-stopping performance of “Are You Ready For Love” by R&b-Soul-Pop Trio Gabriels and Elton John. The Foundation extends heartfelt gratitude to the generous donors, sponsors, and supporters whose unwavering commitment made this incredible achievement in the Foundation’s history possible.
Presenting Sponsors of the event include A+E Networks, Chopard, Gilead Sciences, Health Care Advocates International, Robert and Dana Kraft,...
- 3/12/2024
- Look to the Stars
As fashion companies descend on Los Angles for Oscar Week — to throw cocktail parties and mount brand activations — Prada is offering something different.
For the next two nights, the Italian luxury house has paired with German artist Carsten Höller to create an ephemeral nightclub located inside a massive warehouse in downtown Los Angeles.
Dubbed The Double Club Los Angeles, Prada’s pop-up runs for two nights (March 7 and 8) as a private installation-slash-club before opening to the public on March 9 and 10 (Oscars day).
Inside the cavernous space, there are multiple bars, a large brightly-lit central performance stage covered in multi-colored bulbs and three vintage amusement park rides including a carousel, a swing ride, and one called the Silver Streak that takes riders in circles at a fairly fast clip. The whole shebang is being presented in partnership with Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy, the vintage circa 1987 art amusement park featuring a Jean-Michel Basquiat Ferris wheel,...
For the next two nights, the Italian luxury house has paired with German artist Carsten Höller to create an ephemeral nightclub located inside a massive warehouse in downtown Los Angeles.
Dubbed The Double Club Los Angeles, Prada’s pop-up runs for two nights (March 7 and 8) as a private installation-slash-club before opening to the public on March 9 and 10 (Oscars day).
Inside the cavernous space, there are multiple bars, a large brightly-lit central performance stage covered in multi-colored bulbs and three vintage amusement park rides including a carousel, a swing ride, and one called the Silver Streak that takes riders in circles at a fairly fast clip. The whole shebang is being presented in partnership with Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy, the vintage circa 1987 art amusement park featuring a Jean-Michel Basquiat Ferris wheel,...
- 3/8/2024
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Madonna’s Celebration tour takes a moment each night to pay tribute to artists who suffered or died from AIDS. During “Live to Tell,” her 1986 single about persevering through trying times, a montage of images flash across the screen. Among them are photos of Keith Haring, Herb Ritts, and Freddie Mercury, who all battled the disease. Also pictured was Luther Vandross, whose estate requested that Madonna remove from the tribute because he “was Never diagnosed with AIDS or the HIV Virus.”
Reps for Madonna have now told Rolling Stone that...
Reps for Madonna have now told Rolling Stone that...
- 2/27/2024
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Charles Osgood, the witty CBS News journalist who shepherded “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades — a longer tenure than the show’s original host, Charles Kuralt — died Tuesday at 91 years of age after living for a period of time with dementia, according to CBS News.
He also hosted a durable radio-news segment, “The Osgood File,” between 1971 and 2017. The audio vignettes were heard four times each weekday morning on various stations across the U.S., and Osgood would sometimes analyze a news event, and, in other moments, provide rhyming commentary on the latest headlines. He would sometimes bid listeners farewell by telling them: “I’ll see you on the radio.”
“Short words, short sentences, short paragraphs,” Osgood was known to say. “There’s nothing that can’t be improved by making it shorter and better.”
He spent 45 years at CBS News before retiring in 2016. During his tenure, “Sunday Morning...
He also hosted a durable radio-news segment, “The Osgood File,” between 1971 and 2017. The audio vignettes were heard four times each weekday morning on various stations across the U.S., and Osgood would sometimes analyze a news event, and, in other moments, provide rhyming commentary on the latest headlines. He would sometimes bid listeners farewell by telling them: “I’ll see you on the radio.”
“Short words, short sentences, short paragraphs,” Osgood was known to say. “There’s nothing that can’t be improved by making it shorter and better.”
He spent 45 years at CBS News before retiring in 2016. During his tenure, “Sunday Morning...
- 1/23/2024
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
In 1987 in Hamburg, Germany, the first ever “art amusement park” opened to the public, featuring works by legendary artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and even Salvador Dali. For three short months, families came together to experience the artistic oddities of the park — before the whimsical creations were soon forgotten. Locked away in 44 shipping containers for 36 years, the rides and pieces created for the original Luna Luna were seemingly forgotten.
Now, thanks to curation and restoration provided by Drake, fans and art aficionados are once again able to experience these one-of-a-kind works, up close and personal, at Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy in Los Angeles.
Tucked away among industrial warehouses in downtown L.A., the park features 19 rare and pristinely restored works by many of the world’s most well-known modern artists. It is divided into two main rooms for viewing.
On the first side, there’s a painted chair ride designed by Kenny Scharf.
Now, thanks to curation and restoration provided by Drake, fans and art aficionados are once again able to experience these one-of-a-kind works, up close and personal, at Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy in Los Angeles.
Tucked away among industrial warehouses in downtown L.A., the park features 19 rare and pristinely restored works by many of the world’s most well-known modern artists. It is divided into two main rooms for viewing.
On the first side, there’s a painted chair ride designed by Kenny Scharf.
- 12/18/2023
- by Ryan Fish
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“It’s so great to be home … I mean that in a way that only New Yorkers know,” Madonna, who adopted New York as her hometown in 1978, told the Brooklyn audience present for the North American kickoff of her Celebration Tour on Wednesday. “New Yorkers can identify with just-not-giving-a-fuck motherfuckers. We do shit our way. New York is not for little pussies who sleep.”
Madonna certainly wasn’t tired, and that was the point of the whole show, a tour de force of some of her biggest hits paired with...
Madonna certainly wasn’t tired, and that was the point of the whole show, a tour de force of some of her biggest hits paired with...
- 12/14/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
There’s a moment late on in the first night of Madonna‘s Celebration Tour when the Queen of Pop, acoustic guitar in hand, leads The O2 Arena in a solo rendition of Gloria Gaynor’s seminal disco hit ‘I Will Survive.’
It would be a fitting choice for any 65-year-old pop star who can still play a staggering six nights at an arena that fits 20,000 people, but for Madonna, the song seems even more appropriate. This tour, a career-spanning look back at 40 years at the top, was originally set...
It would be a fitting choice for any 65-year-old pop star who can still play a staggering six nights at an arena that fits 20,000 people, but for Madonna, the song seems even more appropriate. This tour, a career-spanning look back at 40 years at the top, was originally set...
- 10/15/2023
- by Nick Reilly
- Rollingstone.com
Summer light fades to gold in Malibu. Surfers carve tasty waves just down the road. A beautiful woman wanders toward the pool house. She crosses paths with a sweet dog heading the opposite way looking for an ear rub.
Diet Cokes are poured at Sean Penn’s house. Small talk is made about how the coffee table in his living room looks like a junk drawer just exploded on it. There are sunglasses, prescription bottles and a device that shoots salt at mosquitoes. Nearby are photos of famous people, all smoking. They are opposite a poster for “A Man Called Adam,” a Sammy Davis Jr. film directed by Leo Penn, Sean’s father.
Another wall holds a frame containing a Ukraine Order of Merit medal. Penn is 63 and dressed in a simple T-shirt and blue jeans. His hair is now a shock of white. He speaks of the United Nations,...
Diet Cokes are poured at Sean Penn’s house. Small talk is made about how the coffee table in his living room looks like a junk drawer just exploded on it. There are sunglasses, prescription bottles and a device that shoots salt at mosquitoes. Nearby are photos of famous people, all smoking. They are opposite a poster for “A Man Called Adam,” a Sammy Davis Jr. film directed by Leo Penn, Sean’s father.
Another wall holds a frame containing a Ukraine Order of Merit medal. Penn is 63 and dressed in a simple T-shirt and blue jeans. His hair is now a shock of white. He speaks of the United Nations,...
- 9/13/2023
- by Stephen Rodrick
- Variety Film + TV
Madonna has posted another health update following her hospitalization last month with a bacterial infection.
In an Instagram post thanking her family and friends for helping her during the rough time, the singer, who earlier this month postponed her North American tour dates due to the illness, wrote yesterday on Instagram about a gift she received from manager Guy Oseary. The gift – a Polaroid photo taken by Andy Warhol of artist Keith Haring wearing a jacket with Michael Jackson’s face painted on it made her sob “because I realized how lucky I am to be alive. And how fortunate I am to have known these people and so many others who are also gone.”
See the Instagram post below.
“Love from family and friends is the best Medicine,” Madonna wrote. “One month out of the hospital and I can reflect. As...
In an Instagram post thanking her family and friends for helping her during the rough time, the singer, who earlier this month postponed her North American tour dates due to the illness, wrote yesterday on Instagram about a gift she received from manager Guy Oseary. The gift – a Polaroid photo taken by Andy Warhol of artist Keith Haring wearing a jacket with Michael Jackson’s face painted on it made her sob “because I realized how lucky I am to be alive. And how fortunate I am to have known these people and so many others who are also gone.”
See the Instagram post below.
“Love from family and friends is the best Medicine,” Madonna wrote. “One month out of the hospital and I can reflect. As...
- 7/31/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Madonna took to social media Sunday to show her appreciation for her loved ones and all their support throughout her recovery following her hospitalization last month.
“Love from family and friends is the best Medicine,” she wrote on Instagram. “One month out of the hospital and I can reflect. As a Mother you can really get caught up In the needs of your children and the seemingly endless giving……….. But when the chips were down my children really showed up for me. I saw a side to them I had never seen before. It made all the difference.”
In June, the Grammy-winner singer was in the hospital for multiple days due to a bacterial infection, according to her talent manager and producer Guy Oseary. At the time, he said she was expected to make a full recovery, but that her Celebration World Tour would be postponed.
Madonna also expressed gratitude for her close friends,...
“Love from family and friends is the best Medicine,” she wrote on Instagram. “One month out of the hospital and I can reflect. As a Mother you can really get caught up In the needs of your children and the seemingly endless giving……….. But when the chips were down my children really showed up for me. I saw a side to them I had never seen before. It made all the difference.”
In June, the Grammy-winner singer was in the hospital for multiple days due to a bacterial infection, according to her talent manager and producer Guy Oseary. At the time, he said she was expected to make a full recovery, but that her Celebration World Tour would be postponed.
Madonna also expressed gratitude for her close friends,...
- 7/31/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It has been one month since Madonna has been out of the hospital following a “serious bacterial infection.” As the pop icon recovers, she’s had time to take stock on what matters most after a health issue that led to her spending several days in an intensive care unit and forced her to postpone her North American Celebration tour dates.
“Love from family and friends is the best Medicine. One month out of the hospital and I can reflect. As a Mother you can really get caught up In...
“Love from family and friends is the best Medicine. One month out of the hospital and I can reflect. As a Mother you can really get caught up In...
- 7/30/2023
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Madonna is sharing a further update on her health, one month after being hospitalized for what was described as “serious bacterial infection” that resulted in postponing her upcoming tour.
On Sunday, Madonna shared a few photos of herself and her children.
“Love from family and friends is the best Medicine. One month out of the hospital and I can reflect,” she began.
Read More: Madonna Looks Healthy As She Hangs Out With 29-Year-Old Rumoured Boyfriend Josh Popper
“As a Mother you can really get caught up In the needs Of your children and the seemingly endless giving……….. But when the chips were down my children really showed up for me. I saw a side to them I had never seen before. It made all the difference,” she continued.
“So did the love and support from my friends. If you zoom into this Picture I am holding You will see A...
On Sunday, Madonna shared a few photos of herself and her children.
“Love from family and friends is the best Medicine. One month out of the hospital and I can reflect,” she began.
Read More: Madonna Looks Healthy As She Hangs Out With 29-Year-Old Rumoured Boyfriend Josh Popper
“As a Mother you can really get caught up In the needs Of your children and the seemingly endless giving……….. But when the chips were down my children really showed up for me. I saw a side to them I had never seen before. It made all the difference,” she continued.
“So did the love and support from my friends. If you zoom into this Picture I am holding You will see A...
- 7/30/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
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Here’s another way to deck out your Barbiecore abode, Marvel-inspired manse or Star Wars-powered space for less. Washable rug brand Ruggable’s birthday sale kicks off today, promising 20 percent off everything, including its film, TV and art collaborations.
Through July 25, use the code BDAY23 to save on the company’s machine-washable indoor and outdoor area and runner rugs, door and bath mats and throw pillows as well as its Scandinavian-modern-inspired Levity line of furniture featuring removable and washable upholstery. The discount also applies to Ruggable’s collections with Barbie, Star Wars, Marvel, Disney and Pixar, designers Jonathan Adler and Anna Sui, fashion icon Iris Apfel, photographer Gray Malin, the estates of artists Basquiat and Keith Haring and more.
We’re fans of Ruggable’s two-piece rugs,...
Here’s another way to deck out your Barbiecore abode, Marvel-inspired manse or Star Wars-powered space for less. Washable rug brand Ruggable’s birthday sale kicks off today, promising 20 percent off everything, including its film, TV and art collaborations.
Through July 25, use the code BDAY23 to save on the company’s machine-washable indoor and outdoor area and runner rugs, door and bath mats and throw pillows as well as its Scandinavian-modern-inspired Levity line of furniture featuring removable and washable upholstery. The discount also applies to Ruggable’s collections with Barbie, Star Wars, Marvel, Disney and Pixar, designers Jonathan Adler and Anna Sui, fashion icon Iris Apfel, photographer Gray Malin, the estates of artists Basquiat and Keith Haring and more.
We’re fans of Ruggable’s two-piece rugs,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Danielle Directo-Meston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Before Fran Rubel Kuzui helmed 1992’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she debuted her first feature Tokyo Pop at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival to much acclaim. Due to its distributor going bankrupt, the film never got a fully fledged U.S. run, but now––35 years later––her bubbly pop adventure has been restored in 4K and will open in U.S. theaters (starting on August 4) from Kino Lorber.
Ahead of its release, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the new trailer for the film that follows the unlikely love story between American wannabe rocker Wendy and the struggling Japanese singer Hiro (Diamond Yukai of the Japanese band Red Warriors) as they seek music stardom in 1980s Tokyo, only to discover it might be found together.
Here’s the expanded synopsis: “Bleach-blonde wannabe rocker Wendy is disillusioned with her life in New York City. After receiving a postcard from Japan saying “wish you were here,...
Ahead of its release, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the new trailer for the film that follows the unlikely love story between American wannabe rocker Wendy and the struggling Japanese singer Hiro (Diamond Yukai of the Japanese band Red Warriors) as they seek music stardom in 1980s Tokyo, only to discover it might be found together.
Here’s the expanded synopsis: “Bleach-blonde wannabe rocker Wendy is disillusioned with her life in New York City. After receiving a postcard from Japan saying “wish you were here,...
- 7/10/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field, Bad Like Brooklyn Dance Hall, Lost Soulz to premiere in New York.
Andrew Herwitz’s The Film Sales Company has boarded worldwide sales rights on three films set to receive their world premieres at Tribeca Festival.
Michael Selditch’s Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field premieres in Spotlight Documentary and chronicles the work of feted costume designer Field, who earned global renown for the likes of Sex And The City and Ugly Betty and garnered an Oscar nod for The Devil Wears Prada.
Kim Cattrall, Lily Collins Sarah Jessica Parker, Darren Star,...
Andrew Herwitz’s The Film Sales Company has boarded worldwide sales rights on three films set to receive their world premieres at Tribeca Festival.
Michael Selditch’s Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field premieres in Spotlight Documentary and chronicles the work of feted costume designer Field, who earned global renown for the likes of Sex And The City and Ugly Betty and garnered an Oscar nod for The Devil Wears Prada.
Kim Cattrall, Lily Collins Sarah Jessica Parker, Darren Star,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field, Bad Like Brooklyn Dance Hall, Lost Soulz to premiere in New York.
Andrew Herwitz’s The Film Sales Company has boarded worldwide sales rights on three films set to receive their world premieres at Tribeca Festival.
Michael Selditch’s Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field premieres in Spotlight Documentary and chronicles the work of feted costume designer Field, who earned global renown for the likes of Sex And The City and Ugly Betty and garnered an Oscar nod for The Devil Wears Prada.
Kim Cattrall, Lily Collins Sarah Jessica Parker, Darren Star,...
Andrew Herwitz’s The Film Sales Company has boarded worldwide sales rights on three films set to receive their world premieres at Tribeca Festival.
Michael Selditch’s Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field premieres in Spotlight Documentary and chronicles the work of feted costume designer Field, who earned global renown for the likes of Sex And The City and Ugly Betty and garnered an Oscar nod for The Devil Wears Prada.
Kim Cattrall, Lily Collins Sarah Jessica Parker, Darren Star,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
“Obviously, there’s a lot of parts of this country where people don’t feel safe so we have to band together to make people as safe as we can,” country music star Orville Peck told the audience at the WeHo Pride’s Outloud music festival on Saturday, referring to the wave of anti-trans and anti-drag legislation that is upending lives and spreading fear in states across the country, including Texas and Florida. But, noted Peck, a judge in Tennessee had just a day earlier ruled that the state’s recently passed law forbidding drag performances in public is unconstitutional, drawing cheers from the thousands in the crowd.
That scene, mixing politics, purpose and performance, was one of many similar ones that unfolded throughout the second annual WeHo Pride, held over the weekend of June 2-4 in West Hollywood, California.
On Sunday, at the WeHo Pride Parade, Melissa McCarthy topped...
That scene, mixing politics, purpose and performance, was one of many similar ones that unfolded throughout the second annual WeHo Pride, held over the weekend of June 2-4 in West Hollywood, California.
On Sunday, at the WeHo Pride Parade, Melissa McCarthy topped...
- 6/5/2023
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Emmy-winning Will & Grace star Leslie Jordan and the four-time Tony-winning playwright and librettist Terrence McNally are among the seven 2023 inductees to the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor.
The International Imperial Court System and the National LGBTQ Task Force said Monday that the LGBTQ legends will be honored during a ceremony on June 22 at 6:30 p.m. at the historic Stonewall Inn. This year’s event will coincide with the National LGBTQ Task Force’s 50th year celebration.
The Wall of Honor posthumously celebrates LGBTQ activists, artists and other community members, acknowledging their crucial roles in the ongoing fight for LGBTQ liberation. This year’s honors come amid a record wave of anti-trans and anti-lgbtq legislation across the U.S. and a rapid rise in book bans featuring LGBTQ characters, historical figures and narratives.
“At a time when the majority of states in this country are fighting legislation that is trying to erase us,...
The International Imperial Court System and the National LGBTQ Task Force said Monday that the LGBTQ legends will be honored during a ceremony on June 22 at 6:30 p.m. at the historic Stonewall Inn. This year’s event will coincide with the National LGBTQ Task Force’s 50th year celebration.
The Wall of Honor posthumously celebrates LGBTQ activists, artists and other community members, acknowledging their crucial roles in the ongoing fight for LGBTQ liberation. This year’s honors come amid a record wave of anti-trans and anti-lgbtq legislation across the U.S. and a rapid rise in book bans featuring LGBTQ characters, historical figures and narratives.
“At a time when the majority of states in this country are fighting legislation that is trying to erase us,...
- 5/15/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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If you haven’t picked up a new pipe in a while, you’re in for a treat: the best pipes are now sleek, discreet, and even artful pieces of smoking paraphernalia. In other words, pipes have grown up to become tasteful accessories worthy of our coffee tables, home bars and decor shelves.
Better still, some of the best pipes can now be ordered online (no need to...
If you haven’t picked up a new pipe in a while, you’re in for a treat: the best pipes are now sleek, discreet, and even artful pieces of smoking paraphernalia. In other words, pipes have grown up to become tasteful accessories worthy of our coffee tables, home bars and decor shelves.
Better still, some of the best pipes can now be ordered online (no need to...
- 4/20/2023
- by RS Editors
- Rollingstone.com
The Elton John AIDS Foundation raised more than $9 million at its annual Academy Awards viewing party on Sunday night. The star-studded evening featured a performance by Rina Sawayama and Sir Elton John, a dance party into the night and a live auction for original Keith Haring artwork and the host’s iconic crystalized Dodgers robe.
The evening hosted stars including Donatella Versace, Michael Imperioli, Melanie Lynskey, Tiffany Haddish, Kesha, Troye Sivan, Emma Watson, Heidi Klum, Maggie Rogers and Brooke Shields. Smokey Robinson and Nile Rogers sat next to each other for dinner, while special guests Eric McCormack and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez encouraged the audience to donate via text during commercial breaks.
Before the festivities began, John emphasized the importance of fighting the AIDS crisis, which his foundation has been doing for more than 30 years.
“We cannot take our foot off the accelerator,” John told reporters. “We’ve come so far...
The evening hosted stars including Donatella Versace, Michael Imperioli, Melanie Lynskey, Tiffany Haddish, Kesha, Troye Sivan, Emma Watson, Heidi Klum, Maggie Rogers and Brooke Shields. Smokey Robinson and Nile Rogers sat next to each other for dinner, while special guests Eric McCormack and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez encouraged the audience to donate via text during commercial breaks.
Before the festivities began, John emphasized the importance of fighting the AIDS crisis, which his foundation has been doing for more than 30 years.
“We cannot take our foot off the accelerator,” John told reporters. “We’ve come so far...
- 3/14/2023
- by Sasha Urban
- Variety Film + TV
This touching documentary revisits the grimy Manhattan of the 70s and 80s in search of long-lost painter Edward Brezinski
If All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, the recent documentary featuring photographer Nan Goldin, has whetted your appetite for the scuzzy glory days of Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1970s and 80s, then this documentary about Edward Brezinski, another artist kicking around the Bowery at the time, will quench that thirst. Interestingly, Goldin is never mentioned in this film, but a few art-world figures such as actor-critic Cookie Mueller and artist David Wojnarowicz overlap both films. No doubt there must have gallery openings or parties where Brezinski and Goldin were in the same room or even met one another, and this work clearly demonstrates that the NYC art scene was a small, almost incestuous circle where nearly everyone slept with everyone, especially before Aids arrived, and they all bitched about each other constantly.
If All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, the recent documentary featuring photographer Nan Goldin, has whetted your appetite for the scuzzy glory days of Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1970s and 80s, then this documentary about Edward Brezinski, another artist kicking around the Bowery at the time, will quench that thirst. Interestingly, Goldin is never mentioned in this film, but a few art-world figures such as actor-critic Cookie Mueller and artist David Wojnarowicz overlap both films. No doubt there must have gallery openings or parties where Brezinski and Goldin were in the same room or even met one another, and this work clearly demonstrates that the NYC art scene was a small, almost incestuous circle where nearly everyone slept with everyone, especially before Aids arrived, and they all bitched about each other constantly.
- 2/13/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
In an airy but compact studio high in a converted Victorian bus factory in Islington, the artist known as Slawn is showing me around the kind of work that led to his being tapped to design this year’s Brit Awards statuette.
His north-London space is filled with people (unidentified hipsters on beanbags tapping at laptops), boxed superhero figurines, canvases stacked against the wall and depictions of the 22-year-old’s nemesis: the Nigerian policeman. There are also two man-sized sculptures of rabbits, shaped like penises, which might be a shock for the London fashion store that commissioned them to mark the Chinese Year of the Rabbit. And there’s some royal porn.
Not pictured: the aeroplane “in some airfield somewhere” that features daubings of dicks “on the underside of the wing. It hasn’t flown yet, but I tried to get them to fly over the palace.”
Sir Peter Blake...
His north-London space is filled with people (unidentified hipsters on beanbags tapping at laptops), boxed superhero figurines, canvases stacked against the wall and depictions of the 22-year-old’s nemesis: the Nigerian policeman. There are also two man-sized sculptures of rabbits, shaped like penises, which might be a shock for the London fashion store that commissioned them to mark the Chinese Year of the Rabbit. And there’s some royal porn.
Not pictured: the aeroplane “in some airfield somewhere” that features daubings of dicks “on the underside of the wing. It hasn’t flown yet, but I tried to get them to fly over the palace.”
Sir Peter Blake...
- 2/11/2023
- by Craig McLean
- The Independent - Music
From its hilarious use of social media montages to the oversized white Telfar bag that seems to almost swallow one of its characters whole, Sebastián Silva’s Rotting in the Sun is the kind of film that would be best served by a review comprised entirely of emojis. And I mean that as the highest of compliments. There isn’t a single frame in the film that hasn’t been meticulously manicured in order to achieve what social media tries to do: create a vision of uniqueness while relishing in manufactured mundanity. That Silva achieves to both criticize the overuse of online personas (particularly in the white gay world) while becoming a piece meant to be meme-d and TikTok-ed into oblivion is truly remarkable.
The Chilean director, best known for his psychedelic dramedies like Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus and The Maid, plays a spiritually oversized version of himself,...
The Chilean director, best known for his psychedelic dramedies like Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus and The Maid, plays a spiritually oversized version of himself,...
- 1/31/2023
- by Jose Solís
- The Film Stage
The actor and singer, 74, talks about working as a go-go dancer, hanging out with Keith Haring, dropping LSD in the 60s and missing out on Blade Runner
I was raised in Spanish Town, Jamaica, by my grandmother and step-grandfather. My grandmother’s brother was a Pentecostal bishop, so we were made examples of at the Jamaican Pentecostal church, where the Bible is interpreted very literally. I wasn’t allowed to wear trousers or straighten my hair, so combing my hair was very painful, and I would be punished if any of my actions were considered idle.
At 18 I travelled to Paris, Italy and New York – and took a lot of acid. I found it mind-opening. There were always doctors around, so it never really felt dangerous, even when I took an Stp, a super trip pill, and couldn’t come down for at least three days.
I was raised in Spanish Town, Jamaica, by my grandmother and step-grandfather. My grandmother’s brother was a Pentecostal bishop, so we were made examples of at the Jamaican Pentecostal church, where the Bible is interpreted very literally. I wasn’t allowed to wear trousers or straighten my hair, so combing my hair was very painful, and I would be punished if any of my actions were considered idle.
At 18 I travelled to Paris, Italy and New York – and took a lot of acid. I found it mind-opening. There were always doctors around, so it never really felt dangerous, even when I took an Stp, a super trip pill, and couldn’t come down for at least three days.
- 9/17/2022
- by Rich Pelley
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s almost 4/20, which is more than enough reason to sit back, light up and celebrate.
Thanks to more widespread marijuana usage and legalization in 18 states, the official pot-smoking holiday has grown from a small event on society’s fringes to a nationally-recognized event. Though its origins have been (incorrectly) linked to rock star death anniversaries, the police penal code, and the number of chemical compounds in the Thc-rich plant, the true genesis of 4/20 is more humble. In the Seventies, a few California teens would smoke after high school at...
Thanks to more widespread marijuana usage and legalization in 18 states, the official pot-smoking holiday has grown from a small event on society’s fringes to a nationally-recognized event. Though its origins have been (incorrectly) linked to rock star death anniversaries, the police penal code, and the number of chemical compounds in the Thc-rich plant, the true genesis of 4/20 is more humble. In the Seventies, a few California teens would smoke after high school at...
- 4/18/2022
- by Brandt Ranj and Oscar Hartzog
- Rollingstone.com
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Springfield residents are no strangers to a fashion moment. Homer and Marge walked down a Balenciaga runway during the Spanish brand’s virtual runway show last October, while Adidas’s long-running partnership with the show has produced a handful of sneaker designs inspired by characters such as Moe and Bart.
Now, the iconic imagery from the CW series dons corduroy and denim pieces in a new collection by Levi’s. The Spring/Summer 2022 streetwear line immortalizes fan-favorite characters, such as on the back of an over-sized denim jacket featuring a patch of a crazy-eyed Bart, and a selection of ringer t-shirts embossed with the meme-able dancing Lisa and Milliner on the front.
Other highlights of the collection include a reversible puffer vest patterned with blue skies and clouds, a clear...
Springfield residents are no strangers to a fashion moment. Homer and Marge walked down a Balenciaga runway during the Spanish brand’s virtual runway show last October, while Adidas’s long-running partnership with the show has produced a handful of sneaker designs inspired by characters such as Moe and Bart.
Now, the iconic imagery from the CW series dons corduroy and denim pieces in a new collection by Levi’s. The Spring/Summer 2022 streetwear line immortalizes fan-favorite characters, such as on the back of an over-sized denim jacket featuring a patch of a crazy-eyed Bart, and a selection of ringer t-shirts embossed with the meme-able dancing Lisa and Milliner on the front.
Other highlights of the collection include a reversible puffer vest patterned with blue skies and clouds, a clear...
- 3/3/2022
- by Anna Tingley
- Variety Film + TV
A look back at a 1983 Jean-Michel Basquiat interview forced me to once again consider Toni Morrison's reverberating words. In "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination," she argued that "a real or fabricated Africanist presence was crucial to their sense of Americanness." "Their," in this case, meant white literary authors. She posited that they distinguished themselves as a cohesive entity, while their identity and work hinged on the existence of a Black population kept in the shadows - historical integrity be damned.
Morrison's argument can be extended to the world of visual art and, more specifically, to Basquiat's presence in NYC's "neo-expressionist" art movement of the late '70s and early '80s. A year after his 1988 death, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was offered Basquiat's work, and the organization declined. Then-Head Curator Ann Temkin contended that his paintings were not marketable. Temkin later admitted, "I didn't recognize it as great,...
Morrison's argument can be extended to the world of visual art and, more specifically, to Basquiat's presence in NYC's "neo-expressionist" art movement of the late '70s and early '80s. A year after his 1988 death, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was offered Basquiat's work, and the organization declined. Then-Head Curator Ann Temkin contended that his paintings were not marketable. Temkin later admitted, "I didn't recognize it as great,...
- 2/15/2022
- by marjua estevez
- Popsugar.com
NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ film festival, kicks off tonight with one of the most prominent documentaries of the fall.
Mayor Pete, directed by Jesse Moss, goes behind the scenes and on the stump with Pete Buttigieg as he became the first openly gay major presidential candidate, vying for the Democratic nomination. Buttigieg’s campaign was unusual not only because of his gay identity, but for his résumé: his background in elective office was limited to serving as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
“One of the reasons I wanted to make the film is there seemed to be something almost Frank Capra-esque about this notion that a small-town mayor could run for president and be competitive,” Moss tells Deadline. “Of course, I wasn’t sure that was possible when we set out to make the film.
Mayor Pete, directed by Jesse Moss, goes behind the scenes and on the stump with Pete Buttigieg as he became the first openly gay major presidential candidate, vying for the Democratic nomination. Buttigieg’s campaign was unusual not only because of his gay identity, but for his résumé: his background in elective office was limited to serving as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
“One of the reasons I wanted to make the film is there seemed to be something almost Frank Capra-esque about this notion that a small-town mayor could run for president and be competitive,” Moss tells Deadline. “Of course, I wasn’t sure that was possible when we set out to make the film.
- 10/15/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
NewFest, New York City’s premier LGBTQ film festival, swings into its 33rd edition on Friday, delivering over 130 features, shorts, and documentaries across theaters in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and for those viewers outside of NYC, at home virtually.
The festival this year runs October 15 through 26, kicking off on Friday with the east coast premiere of the documentary “Mayor Pete,” about Secretary of Transportation and former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg. The film brings viewers inside his campaign to be the youngest U.S. President, and looking at his marriage to his husband Chasten, and their ambitious team — from the earliest days of the campaign to his unlikely victory in Iowa and beyond. This film reveals what goes on inside a campaign for the highest office in the land — and the myriad ways it changes the lives of those at its center. Buttigieg serves as the first openly LGBTQ Cabinet member in U.
The festival this year runs October 15 through 26, kicking off on Friday with the east coast premiere of the documentary “Mayor Pete,” about Secretary of Transportation and former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg. The film brings viewers inside his campaign to be the youngest U.S. President, and looking at his marriage to his husband Chasten, and their ambitious team — from the earliest days of the campaign to his unlikely victory in Iowa and beyond. This film reveals what goes on inside a campaign for the highest office in the land — and the myriad ways it changes the lives of those at its center. Buttigieg serves as the first openly LGBTQ Cabinet member in U.
- 10/15/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio and Jude Dry
- Indiewire
In the age of Instagram and flash-fame, PacSun has arguably embraced celebrity and influencer branding more than any other large fashion company. In the past five years, PacSun has partnered with celebrities such as Kylie and Kendall Jenner to promote their clothing, not to mention teaming up with Fear of God for the buzzy “Essentials” brand. This has helped bring the company, which filed for bankruptcy in 2016, to the forefront of the fast-fashion market.
In continuation with this trend, PacSun named A$AP Rocky its Guest Artistic Director last week,...
In continuation with this trend, PacSun named A$AP Rocky its Guest Artistic Director last week,...
- 7/14/2021
- by Ethan Whang
- Rollingstone.com
Authorities in New York City have arrested 49-year-old Angel Pereda of Mexico for trying to sell forged art that he claimed had been created by famous artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, for millions of dollars, according to the United States attorney for the Southern District.
The alleged crimes occurred in 2020 and 2021, with Pereda approaching auction houses in New York to sell artworks he claimed to be created by Basquiat and Haring, among others.
“If real, such works would be worth millions,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said...
The alleged crimes occurred in 2020 and 2021, with Pereda approaching auction houses in New York to sell artworks he claimed to be created by Basquiat and Haring, among others.
“If real, such works would be worth millions,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said...
- 7/12/2021
- by Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
New Indie
Emma Seligman’s impressive “Shiva Baby” (Utopia) premieres on Blu-ray this month, and it’s a blisteringly funny, character-based comedy about a young Danielle (played by Rachel Sennott) whose rootless life when she attends a shiva with her parents (Fred Melamed and Polly Draper), only to encounter the boyfriend who’s financially supporting her, his wife — whom Danielle didn’t know existed — and Danielle’s ex-girlfriend. It’s a full buffet of misunderstandings, awkward encounters, and scene-stealing character actors, with a cast that also includes Jackie Hoffman, Dianna Agron, and Molly Gordon.
Also available: A jaded clickbait reporter has an unforgettable encounter in the indie comedy “15 Things You Didn’t Know About Bigfoot” (Kino Lorber); over-the-hill kung fu disciples rouse themselves from mid-life torpor to avenge the death of their master in the martial-arts comedy “The Paper Tigers” (Well Go USA Entertainment).
New Foreign
Eytan Fox’s cultural-generational...
Emma Seligman’s impressive “Shiva Baby” (Utopia) premieres on Blu-ray this month, and it’s a blisteringly funny, character-based comedy about a young Danielle (played by Rachel Sennott) whose rootless life when she attends a shiva with her parents (Fred Melamed and Polly Draper), only to encounter the boyfriend who’s financially supporting her, his wife — whom Danielle didn’t know existed — and Danielle’s ex-girlfriend. It’s a full buffet of misunderstandings, awkward encounters, and scene-stealing character actors, with a cast that also includes Jackie Hoffman, Dianna Agron, and Molly Gordon.
Also available: A jaded clickbait reporter has an unforgettable encounter in the indie comedy “15 Things You Didn’t Know About Bigfoot” (Kino Lorber); over-the-hill kung fu disciples rouse themselves from mid-life torpor to avenge the death of their master in the martial-arts comedy “The Paper Tigers” (Well Go USA Entertainment).
New Foreign
Eytan Fox’s cultural-generational...
- 7/8/2021
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
The new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, located along Manhattan’s “Museum Mile,” features Madonna, MTV, Run-dmc, Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, John Zorn, Liquid Liquid, Max Roach, Fort Apache Band, and much more.
“During the Eighties, there was a community-driven musical renaissance in New York City. It was an era of creativity and genre-defying performance that, in my mind, stands as one of the most influential in musical and cultural history,” says Sean Corcoran, the museum’s curator of prints and photography. “That wide range...
“During the Eighties, there was a community-driven musical renaissance in New York City. It was an era of creativity and genre-defying performance that, in my mind, stands as one of the most influential in musical and cultural history,” says Sean Corcoran, the museum’s curator of prints and photography. “That wide range...
- 7/2/2021
- by RS Editors
- Rollingstone.com
Questlove’s Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will tease the specialty box office this weekend with the brilliantly reviewed Sundance Grand Jury and Audience award-winner in special engagements in two theaters to tee up a wide release on some 600 screens, and Hulu, July 2.
The film from Searchlight Pictures about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which features never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension and others, will strike a chord at the El Capitan Theater in LA and the Magic Johnson AMC Harlem.
Footage from the festival in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park) held the same year as Woodstock was stored in a basement and all but forgotten for 50 years before today and this film, which was directed by musician Ahmir Khalib Thompson, known as Questlove, drummer of...
The film from Searchlight Pictures about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which features never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension and others, will strike a chord at the El Capitan Theater in LA and the Magic Johnson AMC Harlem.
Footage from the festival in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park) held the same year as Woodstock was stored in a basement and all but forgotten for 50 years before today and this film, which was directed by musician Ahmir Khalib Thompson, known as Questlove, drummer of...
- 6/25/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Polaroid and The Keith Haring Foundation have launched an exclusive collaboration featuring a Polaroid camera and instant film inspired by Haring’s signature artwork.
The Polaroid x Keith Haring collaboration pays homage to the artist’s analog work and striking style. “Inspired by a shared spirit of democratic creativity,” the brand says, “the collection honors Keith Haring’s trailblazing spirit by making his art accessible to everyone.” Haring often photographed his own art and himself on Polaroid film at the height of his career, and you can get inspired to...
The Polaroid x Keith Haring collaboration pays homage to the artist’s analog work and striking style. “Inspired by a shared spirit of democratic creativity,” the brand says, “the collection honors Keith Haring’s trailblazing spirit by making his art accessible to everyone.” Haring often photographed his own art and himself on Polaroid film at the height of his career, and you can get inspired to...
- 6/8/2021
- by Sage Anderson
- Rollingstone.com
When Bosch first premiered on Amazon Prime Video in 2014, the streaming world was in a very different place. Netflix had only House of Cards and Orange is the New Black under its belt. Hulu was still a joint venture owned by multiple conglomerates. Disney+, HBO Max, and Peacock didn’t even exist. Now, in June 2021, Amazon Prime’s list of new releases is highlighted by one last outing for LAPD Detective Harry Bosch.
Bosch season 7 premieres on June 25. This will be the last batch of episodes for the series, before a spinoff gets rolling for IMDb TV. For those who are not caught up on the sprawling procedural, Amazon has some other original TV series this month as well. Brazilian crime drama Dom premieres on June 4. That will be followed by the second season of the Anna Paquin-starring public relations drama Flack on June 25.
The library titles are where...
Bosch season 7 premieres on June 25. This will be the last batch of episodes for the series, before a spinoff gets rolling for IMDb TV. For those who are not caught up on the sprawling procedural, Amazon has some other original TV series this month as well. Brazilian crime drama Dom premieres on June 4. That will be followed by the second season of the Anna Paquin-starring public relations drama Flack on June 25.
The library titles are where...
- 5/31/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Video Version of this Article Photo/Video: Keith Haring/Hollywood Insider YouTube Channel At first glance, Keith Haring’s artwork may come across as basic. His murals consist of simple, graphic lines that are boldly painted on a brightly colored background. The symbols are easily recognizable -- a baby, a dog barking, stick figures dancing -- but the meaning behind this simplicity derives itself from a multitude of fascinating concepts that none before Keith Haring dared to explore. Easy Accessibility is the Point The intention behind Haring’s work is the simplicity of it all; it is supposed to be easily recognizable because that makes it accessible. And that’s the whole point: accessibility. In the era of smartphones, where any information is available with a few touches to a screen, Keith Haring’s artwork is not only still relevant, but also reminiscent of a time where art was not...
- 4/21/2021
- by Caroline Adamec
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
by Glenn Dunks
I briefly mentioned Chris McKim’s artist bio-doc Wojnarowicz: F*** You F*ggot F**ker earlier this year as one of the best unreleased documentaries that I saw in 2020. Voila, here we are, and this incredibly vibrant film is now out in the world. Big, boldly stylized and defiantly queer; it’s a documentary about an artist that, for once, feels truly in sync with its subject’s style. “I’m not gay as in ‘I love you’, I’m queer as in fuck off!” If it was one of last year’s best unreleased films, so now it is one of this year’s best films. I love it.
And perhaps part of what makes McKim’s film so interesting from the very start is that David Wojnarowicz is not an artist whose work and life has been excessively covered in film.
I briefly mentioned Chris McKim’s artist bio-doc Wojnarowicz: F*** You F*ggot F**ker earlier this year as one of the best unreleased documentaries that I saw in 2020. Voila, here we are, and this incredibly vibrant film is now out in the world. Big, boldly stylized and defiantly queer; it’s a documentary about an artist that, for once, feels truly in sync with its subject’s style. “I’m not gay as in ‘I love you’, I’m queer as in fuck off!” If it was one of last year’s best unreleased films, so now it is one of this year’s best films. I love it.
And perhaps part of what makes McKim’s film so interesting from the very start is that David Wojnarowicz is not an artist whose work and life has been excessively covered in film.
- 4/15/2021
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
"The noise of life lives in his paintings." Greenwich Ent. has released the official trailer for an indie art documentary called Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide, about the famed artist Kenny Scharf. The feature directorial debut of Malia Scharf and Max Basch and 11 years in the making, When Worlds Collide is about the "art of fun, about living life out loud, despite setbacks, and about Kenny Scharf’s particular do-it- yourself, high-tone, technicolor artistic vision." It was supposed to premiere at SXSW, and they describe it as: "When Kenny Scharf arrived in NYC in the early 1980’s, he quickly met and befriended Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat; There, amongst the fervent creative bustle of a depressed downtown scene the trio would soon change the way we think about art, the world, and ourselves. But unlike Haring & Basquiat, who both died tragically young, Kenny lived through cataclysmic shifts in the...
- 4/11/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Almost thirty years since David Wojnarowicz succumbed to AIDS, Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker, a movie about his life by director Chris McKim and produced by World of Wonder’s Randy Barbato & Fenton Bailey, captures his spirit because it’s made entirely of media from the artist’s archives. Wojnarowicz’s largesse of spirit couldn’t be contained to one artistic medium. He wrote, shot photography, painted, was a performance artist, played in the band 4 Teens Kill 3, and was an activist in Act Up. If he were beginning his career today people would label him with the uninformative term “interdisciplinary multi-media artist” to try and snuff out his voice. Thankfully, his prodigious talent included scrupulous recordings capturing his profound thoughts and voicemails from people in his life. It takes David Wojnarowicz’s own words to tell his story; including an explanation of the movie’s provocative subtitle.
- 3/19/2021
- by Joshua Encinias
- The Film Stage
Greenwich Entertainment has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the documentary feature Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide. The film is slated to debut in theaters and on digital platforms across the country on April 23.
The docu, which marks the directorial debut feature from Max Basch and Malia Scharf, made its world premiere last year at SXSW. Made over 11 years, the docu takes a look at the life of artist Kenny Scharf and features interviews and rare archival footage with Scharf, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Yoko Ono, Kaws, Marilyn Minter, and Jeffrey Deitch.
When Scharf arrived in New York City in the early 1980s, he quickly befriended Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. This trio changed the face of the art world with their works. While Basquiat and Haring both died tragically young, Scharf lived through cataclysmic shifts in New York City and the art world.
The docu, which marks the directorial debut feature from Max Basch and Malia Scharf, made its world premiere last year at SXSW. Made over 11 years, the docu takes a look at the life of artist Kenny Scharf and features interviews and rare archival footage with Scharf, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Yoko Ono, Kaws, Marilyn Minter, and Jeffrey Deitch.
When Scharf arrived in New York City in the early 1980s, he quickly befriended Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. This trio changed the face of the art world with their works. While Basquiat and Haring both died tragically young, Scharf lived through cataclysmic shifts in New York City and the art world.
- 2/23/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Robert Yapkowitz and Rich Peete’s In My Own Time: A Portrait Of Karen Dalton executive producer Wim Wenders on Nick Cave and Karen Dalton: “Just like Nick, Karen’s music had a profound effect on me.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, co-written with Ainara Vera, executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix, co-produced by Anita Rehoff Larsen from Sant & Usant with Joslyn Barnes and Susan Rockefeller of Louverture Films and a Main Slate selection of the 58th New York Film Festival; Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s ever more timely The Meaning Of Hitler; Malia Scharf and Max Basch’s intimate portrait, Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide, produced with David Koh (featuring remembrances from Kenny of Keith Haring, Klaus Nomi, <a...
Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda, co-written with Ainara Vera, executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix, co-produced by Anita Rehoff Larsen from Sant & Usant with Joslyn Barnes and Susan Rockefeller of Louverture Films and a Main Slate selection of the 58th New York Film Festival; Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s ever more timely The Meaning Of Hitler; Malia Scharf and Max Basch’s intimate portrait, Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide, produced with David Koh (featuring remembrances from Kenny of Keith Haring, Klaus Nomi, <a...
- 11/15/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Calendar Girl director Christian D Bruun on The Met's Costume Institute: “The collective fashion history knowledge among Harold Koda, Nancy Chilton and Andrew Bolton was palpable.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Three 2020 Doc NYC highlights are portraits: Chris McKim’s hard-edged Wojnarowicz; Robert Yapkowitz and Rich Peete’s In My Own Time: A Portrait Of Karen Dalton; and Malia Scharf and Max Basch’s intimate Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide on Kenny Scharf’s universe, which included Keith Haring (who died from AIDS in 1993) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (a heroin overdose in 1988).
Christian D Bruun on Ruth Finley: “I was first introduced to Ruth by Kate DelPizzo, a producer on the film.”
A fourth portrait highlight is Christian D Bruun's Calendar Girl on Ruth Finley (who died in 2018 at the age of 98), the creator of the...
Three 2020 Doc NYC highlights are portraits: Chris McKim’s hard-edged Wojnarowicz; Robert Yapkowitz and Rich Peete’s In My Own Time: A Portrait Of Karen Dalton; and Malia Scharf and Max Basch’s intimate Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide on Kenny Scharf’s universe, which included Keith Haring (who died from AIDS in 1993) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (a heroin overdose in 1988).
Christian D Bruun on Ruth Finley: “I was first introduced to Ruth by Kate DelPizzo, a producer on the film.”
A fourth portrait highlight is Christian D Bruun's Calendar Girl on Ruth Finley (who died in 2018 at the age of 98), the creator of the...
- 11/12/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Dennis Hopper on Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat in Malia Scharf and Max Basch’s documentary, produced with David Koh: “They brought a vitality and an energy to art that just hadn’t been there. The importance of those three artists, they just seemed to bring the eighties alive really.” Photo: Tseng Kwong Chi / Courtesy Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc.
Two of the 2020 Doc NYC highlights are on artists. The world premiere of Chris McKim’s hard-edged Wojnarowicz brings back to life the committed activist/artist/poet/performer David Wojnarowicz who died from AIDS in 1992 at age 37.
Malia Scharf on Kenny Scharf with Keith Haring: "He was and still is such an important part of Kenny and our lives."
And there is Malia Scharf and Max Basch’s intimate portrait, Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide (produced with David Koh), which features remembrances from Kenny of Keith Haring,...
Two of the 2020 Doc NYC highlights are on artists. The world premiere of Chris McKim’s hard-edged Wojnarowicz brings back to life the committed activist/artist/poet/performer David Wojnarowicz who died from AIDS in 1992 at age 37.
Malia Scharf on Kenny Scharf with Keith Haring: "He was and still is such an important part of Kenny and our lives."
And there is Malia Scharf and Max Basch’s intimate portrait, Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide (produced with David Koh), which features remembrances from Kenny of Keith Haring,...
- 11/4/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
As certain artists are lionized over time, other legacies are often overshadowed by the veneration of their peers. The names Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe are well known to more than the students of queer outsider art who first discovered them, but their contemporary David Wojnarowicz has remained lesser known. In “Wojnarowicz: F*** You F****t F***er,” a new documentary about the prolific artist and AIDS activist, filmmaker Chris McKim aims to elevate his work beyond queer art circles. This exclusive first trailer offers an intriguing taste of this singular multimedia artist and political voice.
The film gives an intimate look at the life and times of the artist, with unprecedented access to his archives and the full cooperation of his estate. Wojnarowicz inspired a generation through his work at the heart of political and culture wars in New York City in the 1970s and 80s. The film draws...
The film gives an intimate look at the life and times of the artist, with unprecedented access to his archives and the full cooperation of his estate. Wojnarowicz inspired a generation through his work at the heart of political and culture wars in New York City in the 1970s and 80s. The film draws...
- 10/15/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Madonna is all set to direct and co-write a movie telling the story of her life and career as one of the biggest pop stars in the world.
The singer recently announced that she’s busy working on her biopic along with Oscar-winner Diablo Cody.
Universal Pictures announced on Tuesday, that the studio is developing an untitled movie about the pop icon. The studio also revealed that the biopic will be directed and co-written by Madonna herself along with Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody.
Universal Pictures Announces Film Based On The Untold True Story Of Madonna, Written And Directed By The Artist Herself: https://t.co/rElmIq4BrN pic.twitter.com/ABa4IyZrQQ
— Madonna (@Madonna) September 15, 2020
The film will be produced by former Sony Pictures chief Amy Pascal, who produced the 1992 film A League of their Own, featuring the 'Material Girl' singer.
The 62-year-old singer said in a statement: “I want...
The singer recently announced that she’s busy working on her biopic along with Oscar-winner Diablo Cody.
Universal Pictures announced on Tuesday, that the studio is developing an untitled movie about the pop icon. The studio also revealed that the biopic will be directed and co-written by Madonna herself along with Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody.
Universal Pictures Announces Film Based On The Untold True Story Of Madonna, Written And Directed By The Artist Herself: https://t.co/rElmIq4BrN pic.twitter.com/ABa4IyZrQQ
— Madonna (@Madonna) September 15, 2020
The film will be produced by former Sony Pictures chief Amy Pascal, who produced the 1992 film A League of their Own, featuring the 'Material Girl' singer.
The 62-year-old singer said in a statement: “I want...
- 9/16/2020
- by Omkar Padte
- GlamSham
Madonna recently teased that she is writing a biopic based on her life, but the feature film has now landed at Universal, and Madonna will not just write her own story but also direct the film at the studio.
Madonna is co-writing the screenplay alongside Diablo Cody (“Juno”), and the untitled film will focus on her five-decade career and tell the untold story of her transformation as an artist, entrepreneur and feminist icon, as well as feature her music.
Amy Pascal is producing the film alongside Madonna for Pascal Pictures. Sara Zambreno and Guy Oseary will executive produce.
“I want to convey the incredible journey that life has taken me on as an artist, a musician, a dancer – a human being, trying to make her way in this world,” Madonna said in a statement. “The focus of this film will always be music. Music has kept me going and art has kept me alive.
Madonna is co-writing the screenplay alongside Diablo Cody (“Juno”), and the untitled film will focus on her five-decade career and tell the untold story of her transformation as an artist, entrepreneur and feminist icon, as well as feature her music.
Amy Pascal is producing the film alongside Madonna for Pascal Pictures. Sara Zambreno and Guy Oseary will executive produce.
“I want to convey the incredible journey that life has taken me on as an artist, a musician, a dancer – a human being, trying to make her way in this world,” Madonna said in a statement. “The focus of this film will always be music. Music has kept me going and art has kept me alive.
- 9/15/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Madonna has disclosed the details of a secret project she has been writing with “Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody, and it turns out it is a biopic about the pop star’s own life.
During an Instagram Live session on Thursday night, the pop star said that she and Cody have written 107 pages of a script. News of the project first leaked in August but it is still untitled.
Madonna said the project will document her coming up as an artist in New York in the early ’80s and her interactions with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Martin Burgoyne. It also touches on her time filming “Evita,” which she says led to an uncomfortable encounter with Andrew Lloyd Webber as she was adapting his stage musical.
“Honestly, [it’s] one of the best times of my life, and one of the worst times. I hope I can portray or express what...
During an Instagram Live session on Thursday night, the pop star said that she and Cody have written 107 pages of a script. News of the project first leaked in August but it is still untitled.
Madonna said the project will document her coming up as an artist in New York in the early ’80s and her interactions with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Martin Burgoyne. It also touches on her time filming “Evita,” which she says led to an uncomfortable encounter with Andrew Lloyd Webber as she was adapting his stage musical.
“Honestly, [it’s] one of the best times of my life, and one of the worst times. I hope I can portray or express what...
- 9/11/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
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