Monthly Archive for April, 2011

2011 Tribeca Film Festival Announces Jury

Published on April 24, 2011 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

The Tribeca Film Festival announced today its 38 diverse jurors—among them awarding-winning filmmakers and screenwriters, actors and journalists—who will be divided among the six categories in the festival. Jurors will announce the winning films on April 28 at Awards Night, which fans can watch at TribecaFilm.com.

Jane Rosenthal, co-founders of the festival, said the jury is made-up of individuals that will bring a “fresh” perspective to the festival. “It’s an honor to have a jury of such caliber watching and discussing the films in competition this year,” she said in a press release.

Some notable jurors are Jason Sudeikis (recently in the terrible Hall Pass), Scott Glenn (The Silence of the Lambs), Rainn Wilson (The Office), J.D. Heyman (executive editor of People), Jimmy Wales (co-founder of Wikipedia) and Nicole Lapin (from CNBC’s Worldwide Exchange).

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Time-Lapse Milky Way Video Captures Nature From A Unique Perspective (HD VIDEO)

Published on April 19, 2011 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

By Dean Praetorius, The Huffington Post

This time-lapse video of the Milky Way will blow your mind.

Terje Sorgjerd is on a roll. After capturing some amazing footage of the Aurora Borealis recently (though not the famous footage out of the plane window) he’s back with this incredible video that looks like something out of Planet Earth. His time-lapse shots of the Milky Way show a stunning sky, backlit with an incredible aura.

It really makes you feel small, and in awe of the universe.

The time-lapse footage was captured between April 4th and 11th, 2011, from atop El Teide, Spain’s highest mountain. At one point a sandstorm blows across, which rendered Sorgjerd unable to see the sky, but left his camera with some stunning images.

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And the winner of the Archibald Prize is…

Published on April 16, 2011 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

The winning portrait of Margaret Olley

By Adam Fulton, The Age

A portrait of the celebrated painter Margaret Olley by the artist Ben Quilty has won the $50,000 Archibald Prize.

The 88-year-old doyenne of Australian art, who was also the subject of an Archibald winner by William Dobell in 1948, said: “Ben’s been wanting to paint me for years. But I kept on saying no.

“And I said: ‘You have to sort of get over this thing you have with death and start celebrating life.’”

When she saw that he had, she said, she agreed.

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Jeffrey Deitch & Eli Broad Present the Safest Show on Earth?

Published on April 6, 2011 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Photo Courtesy of LA RAW

By Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic

This morning, LA Anonymous unveiled their latest work, a circus-inspired poster installed on the north-facing wall of Zip Fusion Sushi in downtown LA, near Little Tokyo. Titled “Art in the Streets” (2011), the poster by LA Anonymous appears a week before MOCA LA director Jeffrey Deitch’s Art in the Streets show opens.

Judging by the list of artists on display in the MOCA LA show, I’m not really surprised that LA Anonymous would accuse Deitch (under Broad’s direction and funding) of playing it safe. The graffiti-heavy exhibition — a bias which may mean less political and social critique content — is geared very much to a California history of graffiti and (to a lesser extent) street art.

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