Here’s Andrea Glimcher on ‘Star Wars’
Andrea Glimcher, Pace Gallery’s director of communications and the wife of its president Marc, appears in this week’s Film Forum newsletter as part of their regular feature called “My First Time.” Read More
Movies
Sculptor Kevin Francis Gray on His Work on ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’
It’s summer blockbuster season, and if you managed to catch Snow White and the Huntsman (or just the trailer before one of the other big movies), you may have noticed that the filmmakers took particular care with the updated, darker version of the mirror man who tells the evil queen that she’s the fairest in the land. I mean, look at that guy! He’s intense! Read More
Shepard Fairey’s ’1984′ Gains Screenwriter
Here’s A.O. Scott on ‘Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present’
A.O. Scott’s review of the new documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present just went live over at The New York Times. He liked it! Read More
Marina Abramović Doc Will Hit Film Forum in June
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, a documentary by Matthew Akers that follows the performance artist as she prepares for her 2010 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (which gives the film its title), will be screened at Film Forum this summer from June 13 to June 26. Read More
Spencer Sweeney Provided Loft and Paintings for New Abel Ferrara Movie
Spencer Sweeney’s loft and paintings serve as the home and works of Willem Dafoe’s artist wife in the new apocalyptic Abel Ferrara movie 4:44 Last Day on Earth. This isn’t news, per se, but it’s an interesting little piece of trivia that J. Hoberman drops in his column over at Blouin Artinfo. Read More
Bill Hader Plays Andy Warhol in New ‘Men in Black 3′ Trailer
A new trailer for Men in Black 3 dropped today, and it features an amusing cameo by Saturday Night Live veteran Bill Hader, playing Andy Warhol in a scene set in the 1960s. Read More
'We Live in Public' Director Plans Mapplethorpe Biopic
Director Ondi Timoner, best known for the 2009 documentary We Live in Public, will make her narrative feature debut with a movie about the life and times of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Read More
The Art World Gets Its Own Documentary
There is going to be a documentary about the contemporary art world. It is directed by Noah Becker. It is called New York Is Now. That is also the title of an underrated Ornette Coleman record. There is a trailer. Dramatic music plays while people say things that make us cringe and grind our teeth. For example: Read More
