RENATA POLJAK: Uncertain Memories January 13 - February 24, 2013 STEPHAN STOYANOV GALLERY 29 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002 Stephan Stoyanov Gallery is pleased to announce that due to the success and critical acclaim of Uncertain Memories the exhibition will extend until February 24th, 2013. Uncertain Memories is the first solo exhibition at the…
A COLLECTION OF WORKS BY FRANCIS BACON EXHIBITION RUNS MARCH 9 THROUGH APRIL 6 Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film 1-3-2 5F Kiyosumi Koto-ku Tokyo #135-0024 Japan www.TakaishiiGallery.com Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film will present an exhibition of works by Francis Bacon from March 9 to April 6. The exhibition will include 11 contact sheets, which…
In Silver Linings Playbook, impossibly good-looking people are damaged and dysfunction, and they speak a specific language that only those occupied with equal types of delusion can understand. Directed by David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees; last year’s The Fighter), Silver Linings Playbook stars Bradley Cooper (the disheveled heartthrob from The Hangover) as Pat Solatano,…
Cloud Atlas tells many tales; quantity is the only thing guaranteed. In an age where Hasbro toys serve the kind of cinematic inspiration that great writers once did, what to make of ambition? Of wanting more out of the movie-going experience, not as a viewer but as a filmmaker? I often find myself forgiving a…
Out of all the boroughs of New York City, only the Bronx can lay claim as the birthplace of one of the greatest directors in history. Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) is regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers of the twentieth century. More than a decade since his passing in 1999, he continues to cast…
SCOPE MIAMI 2012: INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART SHOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC DECEMBER 4 - 9 110 N.E. 36TH ST. MIAMI, FL 33138 SCOPE ART SHOW ANCHORS MIDTOWN MIAMI WITH NEW PRIME LOCATION 110 N.E. 36 St. at Midtown Blvd. Miami, Florida 33138 SCOPE Art Show returns to Miami in 2012 with a new location on…
A MERE 9% OF FILM DIRECTORS ARE WOMEN. Award winning director Jane Campion (The Piano, Bright Star) says that we’re all being shortchanged by not seeing more from the female point of view. When women do direct, they tend to present richer, more multi-faceted female heroines. In part, no doubt, this is because they project…
MADE IMMORTAL BY HER AUDACIOUS FILM ROLES in cult favorites including Showgirls and Bound, Gina Gershon, still stunning at 50, is a true renaissance woman. Her accomplishments include Broadway, film, television, music albums, audio books and novels. After moving to New York City to study at NYU, she founded the theater group Naked Angels (which…
THE UNTITLED MAGAZINE AT LA JOLLA FILM FESTIVAL Join The Untitled Magazine at the La Jolla Film Festival - July 26-28 at Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California The La Jolla Fashion Film Festival is the first international fashion film festival founded in North America, bringing together over a hundred short films. Last year's festival marked…
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2012 WINNERS Palme d'Or (Best Film): Amour (Austria) by Michael Haneke Grand Prix (Runner-up): Reality (Italy) by Matteo Garrone Jury Prize (Third Prize): The Angels' Share (Britain) by Ken Loach Camera d'Or (Debut Film): Beasts of the Southern Wild (U.S.) by Benh Zeitlin Best Director: Carlos Reygadas, Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico) Best…
The Intouchables is the French film directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano that has taken France by storm. Not only did the film achieve the second highest box office gross of all time in France, but it was voted as the cultural event of 2011 by 52% of the population in a poll by Fnac, Le Parisien, and…
Scope Basel is a renowned art fair that brings together the hottest names in emerging artistic talents and gives them an international platform on which to showcase their work and network with seasoned professionals who work in every aspect of art. The festival has had over 45 events internationally in the past decade alone. Scope puts work…
The La Jolla Fashion Film Festival is the first international fashion film festival founded in North America, bringing together around a hundred short films with world class filmmakers and fashion personalities. Last year's festival marked the largest gathering of fashion film professionals in history, and the third incarnation of the festival this year is poised…
Dark Shadows is Tim Burton's adaptation of the late 60s/early 70s gothic soap opera of the same title. The original Dark Shadows is a melodrama that defined camp film style and has since developed a huge cult following. The show blended soap opera theatrics with supernatural elements, low production value, and bad special effects. Dark Shadows…
ME@THEZOO Film Screening MoMA PS1 - New York May 11, 2012 ME @THE ZOO is an intimate look at a controversial young video blogger regarded by millions as an Internet folk hero. Chris Crocker was bullied out of school in the 8th grade and was, by his account, raised on the Internet. Crocker's online videos…
On May 2nd, Banksy presented in collaboration with Anonymous Gallery of New York an exhibit of his latest creative direction, "The Antics Roadshow". The screening of the mocu-drama brit t.v. style movie was presented at W.I.P on Vandam. Walking into the club style venue, the corridors were sprinkled with graffiti style art and a…
The 2012 Cannes Film Festival is set to begin on May 16, 2012 and run through May 27th, 2012. Wes Anderson's highly anticipated Moonrise Kingdom is scheduled to open the festival, as well as being in competition. Other films in in compition include David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis ( starting Robert Pattinson) and Walter Salles' On The…
In the fashion industry it has been common place for girls barely in their teens to work as models. Yet how young is too young to be a model? Is 12 years old too young to model? How about 13 years old and in a foreign country? "Girl Model" sheds light on these kind of…
Dame Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, and Bill Nighy in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, directed by John Madden, follows a hodgepodge group of British retirees, including Bill Nighy, Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, and Tom Wilkinson, who feel displaced and undervalued at home, and decide to shake up their…
"IN DIALOGUE" EXHIBIT OPENING AT ANONYMOUS GALLERY On April 14th Peter Makebish made his curatorial debut with his exhibition entitled "In Dialogue", held at the Anonymous Gallery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Makebish paired 4 generations of painters whose studio practices share the same bold continuities and congenial themes; works by: Ross Bleckner…
