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DOUG AITKEN “ELECTRIC EARTH” @ THE MOCA – LA – SEPTEMBER 10 – JAN 15

Doug Aitken | "Electric Earth" The Museum of Contemporary Arts, LA 250 S Grand Ave, Plaza Level, Los Angeles CA September 10th - January 15th The Museum of Contemporary Arts presents "Doug Aitken: Electric Earth," Aitken’s first North American survey. From his breakthrough installation diamond sea (1997) to his most recent event-based work Black Mirror (2011), the exhibition unfolds around…

CHARLOTTE COLBERT – ORDINARY MADNESS @ GAZELLI ART HOUSE – LDN – JUL 1 – AUG 13

Charlotte Colbert: Ordinary Madness Gazelli Art House 39 Dover Street, W1S 4NN July 1 - August 13 Charlotte Colbert will have an exhibition, Ordinary Madness opening this July at the Gazelli Art House in London, exploring the relationship between technology and the twenty-first century with the use of familiar icons of instant communication, emoji’s. Ordinary…

A CREATIVE EXPERIENCE: J. ELSTER LAUNCHES POP-UP SHOP IN NYC

On March 15th, at an exclusive event, filmmaker and designer Jennifer Elster launched her pop-up shop in Tribeca. With models donning full leather masks amid projected videos of Elster with Yoko Ono and Terrance Howard, and a performance piece entitled Gender Execution, the artist created an immersive and interactive environment. The evening's guests included Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, Rosie…

KATE MOSS DANCES IN THE DARK FOR MASSIVE ATTACK’S “RITUAL SPIRIT”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhI5T_NKYxc Kate Moss dances in the dark, lighting herself under a naked bulb for Massive Attack's new video "Ritual Spirit".  Directed by Medium and Massive Attack's Robert "3D" Del Naja, with vocals by British singer-songwriter Azekel, the video shows a lone Moss dancing spontaneously. Shot raw, without retouching, Del Naja said of the process, "I didn't want…

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL PREPARES FOR 15TH YEAR

The Tribeca Film Festival is coming to New York for it's fifteenth year this April. Scheduled for the 13th through the 24th, the festival provides one-of-a-kind storytelling from filmmakers for viewers. This year, the Tribeca Film Festival boats something that the Oscar's couldn't dare say for themselves: diversity. Of the features that will debut at the…

MARILYN MONROE: WHAT THE PUBLIC DOESN’T HEAR

This year,  Marilyn Monroe would have celebrated her 89th birthday on June 1st. Even after 53 years of her passing, each day, she grows more and more into a fashion and Hollywood icon. Society deemed her "the dumb blonde" and still note her for her looks rather than her brains. Her "dumb blonde" act was just a…

LEAH MEYERHOFF: FILMMAKER PAVING FOR GENDER EQUALITY

New York City-based filmmaker, Leah Meyerhoff,  has been utilizing her film career in order to promote gender equality. She founded "Film Fatales", which is a network for women directors. Founded in Brooklyn in 2013, is has since gained international recognition. Along with running Film Fatales, she serves as a mentor for the Tribeca Film Fellows,…

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2015

The 68th annual Cannes Film Festival is coming up May 13-24, and the film selections have been announced. 19 films will be competing in Un Certain Regard, starting on May 14. The judges' panel for the Un Certain Regard competition will include Isabella Rosellini (President), Haifaa Al-Mansour, Nadine Labaki, Panos H. Koutras, and Tahar Rahim.…

CHINA THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS @ THE MET – NEW YORK – MAY 7 – AUG 16

China: Through the Looking Glass The Metropolitan Museum of Art Chinese Galleries and Anna Wintour Costume Center May 7–August 16, 2015 The Costume Institute’s spring 2015 exhibition, China: Through the Looking Glass, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 7 through August 16, 2015. In this collaboration between The Costume Institute…

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2015 – APRIL 15 – 26

The Tribeca Film Festival, taking place in various parts of downtown New York from April 15-26, holds its own as a festival known for its documentaries, its happenings in the surrounding Tribeca area, and its appreciation of women directors with the Nora Ephron Prize. Featuring some 100 feature films, with 67 of them premiers, this…

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2015

The 68th annual Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to be held from 13 to 24 May 2015. The face of this year's festival is Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman. She was a modern icon, an emancipated woman, an intrepid actress, and a figurehead for the new realism. She changed roles and adoptive countries as the mood…

BEING JADE BRYAN “THE SHATTERED MIND”

Ann Marie “Jade” Bryan is a filmmaker, fashion enthusiast, and founder of Jade Films and Entertainment. She also happens to be deaf. As I stood outside of NYU’s Cantor Film Center to watch the screening of her latest film, The Shattered Mind, I was examining the gathering crowd with great interest; there were lots of…

99 HOMES’ WORLD IS VERY CLOSE TO OURS – SUNDANCE REVIEW

99 Homes, directed by Ramin Bahrani (Chop Shop), is a riveting new look into the sleazy underbelly of real estate and the horrors of foreclosure amidst the economic recession. Before Ramin Bahrani screened 99 Homes, previously screened at the Toronto Film Festival, at this year’s Sundance Film Festival he spoke of how “the world was…

“EXPERIMENTER” HITS SUNDANCE – STARRING PETER SARSGAARD & WINONA RYDER – REVIEW

Michael Almereyda’s seventh film at Sundance, Experimenter, is a film that asks more questions than answers them. As Almereyda (2001’s Hamlet, Trance) stated before the film began, Stanley Milgram, the film’s biopic subject, was “better at asking questions than answering them.” The film does exactly the same by asking questions, but on the surface. In the vein of films…

“STILL ALICE” – JULIANNE MOORE AT THE TOP OF HER GAME

“I wish I had cancer.” How’s that for a salvo? If it throws you for a loop, it won’t take long before your mind begins to wonder, “What fresh hell could be more harrowing than that?” The answer, both in life and in Still Alice, is a slow and steady deterioration of the brain, the…

10 FILMS YOU MUST SEE BEFORE THE OSCARS

Masters of Hollywood – from directors to actors – anticipate awards season each and every year, hoping that their work throughout the past 12 months will gain them a coveted nomination. Whether you think of the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Awards, or the prestigious Oscars when you think of the most exciting night for…

VALORIE CURRY TALKS FILM, THEATER, AND HER CAREER IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

For up-and-comer Valorie Curry, a career in acting wasn’t exactly a choice; it was something closer to a calling. “It’s all I’ve ever wanted to do,” says the twenty-eight-year-old California native, whose passion for the form was influenced most readily by a childhood spent in creative and collaborate spaces. In fact, it’s her mother who…

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