The more I report on the #Louvre heist, the more I realize life imitates art imitates life: the museum was robbed in the same way in 1976—same window, same kind of loot. Hollywood’s reboot era has hit the Paris underworld. Soon on Apple TV: Tom Holland in The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Just out on the ArtTactic Podcast: Our @adamgreenart speaks with @DanielCassady (@artnews) about the mood at the Armory Show, how galleries and collectors are adjusting in today’s market, and what it all signals for the fall season. 🎧 Listen here: arttactic.com/podcasts/danie…
Also, Matt Gaetz and Stephen Fry to Star in off Broadway production of Importance of Being Ernest. nytimes.com/2024/11/14/busin…
Maverick -> Star Wars -> Christian Schools -> Trump. I can see it. It's wild, but I can see it.
The Popular Success of Top Gun: Maverick
After the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent protests and rioting in 2020, it seemed to many in the intelligentsia that “culturally relevant” films needed to directly address DEI or systemic race issues to find wide appeal.
Top Gun: Maverick instead leaned heavily on classic modernist heroism themes, embodied by a white, male protagonist (Tom Cruise as Maverick) who is a traditional, rule-breaking figure dedicated to honor, duty, and meritocracy.
Maverick represented more traditional American values of meritocracy over aristocracy amid what was supposed to be a cultural revolution intended to set up a new inverted aristocracy.
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I don’t think this is accurate.
We live in a backsliding democracy, but one that can still be defended through elections and legal process. Poland was far further along the authoritarian track than the US today, yet its voters ousted the ruling party last year
"We live in an autocracy now. Just how repressive and lawless of one remains to be seen."
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This is Tina Brown, nailing it: “But more than any of this, Trump’s victory is a big fat raspberry to democratic orthodoxies, woke dogma, and identity politics. He is right to divine that America is sick to death of all of it…
“…Perhaps we needed a shock jock like him to lampoon, distort, and mock insistent liberal pieties with rhetoric so outrageous, so obscene, it would wrench the country back to the center.” open.substack.com/pub/tinabr…
Art Basel and UBS Just Released a Survey of High Net Worth Art Collectors, What Does it Mean?artnews.com/art-news/news/ar…
(More than) slightly painful facts coming Gioia this evening. 62% of adults didn’t read a single work of fiction last year. Is this the end of the novel’s influence or did I miss the death rattle? open.substack.com/pub/tedgio…
Meet the Latest Addition to the Art World: The Artist’s Agent artnews.com/art-news/market/…
Fresh off the press (and soon to be in print in the forthcoming issue of Art in America): my profile of Sotheby’s chief executive Charles Stewart. artnews.com/art-news/news/so…
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The quote in the headline of the Guardian piece was from me, and I'd be pleased to debate you (or your little fingernail) at any point about why we don't in fact have a century to spare in solving this crisis.
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Elon Musk's free speech tweet has just been owned into next week by Armando Iannucci
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Banksy's London Animal Artworks, Ranked. Feel free to throw your two cents in. Or all 25. artnews.com/list/art-news/ar…
ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund, investment, and holding company, has entered into “a definitive agreement” to acquire a minority interest in Sotheby’s. The deal will be closed by the end of the year, Sotheby's says.
Couldn’t make it to Aspen for this year’s Art Week? Have a read and subdue your fomo. No oxygen tank needed. artnews.com/art-news/news/as…