In the October 2009 issue of Harper’s Bazaar we were surprised to find a lengthy Tim Burton inspired photoshoot consisting of a few of the characters he’s dreamed up over the years.
Follow the link to see the rest.In the October 2009 issue of Harper’s Bazaar we were surprised to find a lengthy Tim... more
By BOB ANDELMAN
Harmony and Me, Bob Byington’s new film about a young man struggling to make sense of being dumped by his girlfriend, is being promoted as a slacker comedy. But the term that struck me—and it may be seriously dated—is “sad sacker."
The character of “Harmony”—which is a man, not a woman—is played by Justin Rice. And he is so convincingly hapless as a rejected suitor that I wanted to send him over to my mother’s house for a comforting bowl of chicken soup.
A film like this succeeds, I think, when it absorbs you into the lead’s much and mire. And that, Harmony and Me does.
As for filmmaker Bob Byington, his film RSO (Registered Sex Offender)—premiered at the South by Southwest festival in 2008. And he was recently awarded the Stanley Kubrick Award for “Bold and Innovative Filmmaking” at the Traverse City Film Festival.
AUDIO EXCERPT: "There's a tone to the world that landed in my lap in 2007. I wrote some of this stuff down and got it into a script. I found that the theme of the script had a universal quality. We were going to call this The Last Break-Up Movie You're Ever Going to See."
Harmony and Me will have its opening night theatrical premiere at MoMA—the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan—on Friday, September 18 @ 7 p.m. Bob Byington will introduce the film and then be joined for an onstage discussion afterward by the film’s lead, Justin Rice. The film will then screen daily through Thursday, September 24.
Joining Byington in this interview is Harmony and Me actress and producer Kristen Tucker. In the film, she plays Jessica, the woman who dumps Harmony and bursts his heart in a million, billion pieces, setting the action in motion.
You can LISTEN to this interview with BOB BYINGTON, writer and director of HARMONY AND ME, and producer and actor KRISTEN TUCKER, by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player above!By BOB ANDELMAN
Harmony and Me, Bob Byington’s new film about a young man... more
http://wwwtriponadeal.com: Planning a trip to the Big Apple? We want to help you create your own fantastic New York Memories, so we bring you our visitor's list of hidden gems in the city! Plus our top ten tourist attractions that are completely free!
Get the full list of links to our "Best Hidden Gems of NYC" at triponadeal.comhttp://wwwtriponadeal.com: Planning a trip to the Big Apple? We want to help you... more
"The Art Guys: Home On The Range" is a DVD anthology of The Art Guys’ performance and video works spanning their 25 years of collaboration from 1983-2008. Included in this 2-DVD box set are selections from the The Art Guys’ live stage performances, conceptual events in public, video works, and the ZenFilm documentary of “Nothing To It: The Art Guys in Concert ,” filmed before a live audience at the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. This is the first such compilation of The Art Guys’ video and performance works.
Produced by The Art Guys and Zenfilm
Executive Producer: Merideth Melville
Producer: Jarrod Gullett
Director: W. Ross Wells"The Art Guys: Home On The Range" is a DVD anthology of The Art Guys’ performance... more
June 10th, 2009 (through November 30th) the MoMA of NYC will open a new exhibition featuring music videos, super 8 films, photogs and other forms of media that dives into the melding of music and visual art leading up to the 21st century. Sounds like a cool exhibit to check out if you love music!June 10th, 2009 (through November 30th) the MoMA of NYC will open a new exhibition... more
This must be at a museum, looks like in New York City. And this window is like a picture frame, making the architecture of the city into a part of the exhibition. The dark silhouette there....Stop, you shouldn't say it that way! That would be a very crazy disturbed thing to say, 'cause silhouettes are always dark.
So anyway, that silhouette thing there with the hat on...is it a person or could it be be a sculpture? When I look into this, the perspective gives me a very odd sensation, like almost being sucked right out of that window and into the distance. Such awesome deep focus.
Now, "Look hard...try to find the yellows!"This must be at a museum, looks like in New York City. And this window is like a... more
The quiet scene here is so soothing, minimalist and elegant. The designer didn't just stick a couple of fountains on a wall, but practically made a shrine of them, with light seemingly coming from the fountains themselves. And the way this picture notices that, sometimes there is art in the artist and art in the audience. Yes, this is very elegant.The quiet scene here is so soothing, minimalist and elegant. The designer didn't just... more
April 3, 1996
MOMA displays Jaguar
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City placed a Jaguar E-Type in its permanent exhibit. The E-Type was just the third car to be honored by the curators of the museum's permanent exhibit. Released in 1961, the E-Type was the first model released by Jaguar Motors after a disastrous fire destroyed the company's production facilities in 1957. The car's sleek lines made it an immediate success. Jaguar founder Sir William Lyons first made an impact in the automobile industry when he bolted a care body he designed onto the frame of an Austin Seven Car. His car, the Austin Swallow, was so successful that Lyons determined to manufacture his own automobiles. The E-Type is the epitome of Jaguar's exquisite feel for body design. The car is literally a work of art.
.April 3, 1996
MOMA displays Jaguar
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City placed... more
"The Museum of Modern Art has announced “Mike Nichols,” a two-week retrospective of 17 films that surveys the wide range of Mike Nichols’ directing career running April 14-May 1, 2009.
Spanning more than four decades, the series comprises a collection of Nichols’ most significant works in film, from 1966’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and 1967’s “The Graduate” to 2004’s “Closer” and 2007’s “Charlie Wilson’s War.” The rarely screened films “Carnal Knowledge” (1971) and “Catch 22” (1970) open and close the two-week exhibition.
The retrospective will screen at The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, and is organized by Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.
“While remaining one of the most productive forces in the creative industries—film and theater—Mike Nichols’ body of work is clearly one of the most referenced and revered in contemporary cinema,” said Roy in a statement. “His ability to form lasting and consistently fruitful partnerships with writers and actors places him among the standard bearers for the great collaborative traditions of Hollywood. Emerging filmmakers have much to learn from the intellect and timeless humanity of Nichols’ work.”
Mike Nichols in Conversation, an “intimate and informal conversation with Nichols and a select group of his closest writing and acting collaborators,” including Nora Ephron, Elaine May, and Buck Henry, will take place at MoMA on Saturday April 18, at 8 p.m.""The Museum of Modern Art has announced “Mike Nichols,” a two-week retrospective... more
Department of Eagles music video for their single, "No One Does It Like You", made its debut yesterday at MOMA. The video was directed by Patrick Daughters and Marcel Dzama. I like this video a lot! I say "yes" to a battle scene with piqués, blood, and singing ghosts.
-V.Department of Eagles music video for their single, "No One Does It Like You", made its... more
Department of Eagles will be debuting a new music video for their song, "No One Does It Like You", from their album In Ear Park. The music video will premiere as a part of MoMA's PopRally event on March 24th. After the premiere, there will be a Q&A session with the music video directors, Marcel Dzama and Patrick Daughters, followed by a performance by Department of Eagles.
The Childless Men: Marc and Matthew, today visit the MoMa and try to make sense of their favorite artworks using sarcasm, philosophy...and interpretive dance.
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The Childless Men: Marc and Matthew, today visit the MoMa... more
We of You Look Nice Today ("the Talent") were invited, nay, commissioned to make a thing for a thing - bit.ly/momedy - to be screened at a big fancy place in New York with a lot of fancy people and some interesting paintings. Okay, it was the MoMA. Perhaps you've heard of it.We of You Look Nice Today ("the Talent") were invited, nay, commissioned to make a... more
Marlene Dumas is a South African painter whose exhibit of paintings and works on paper at the MoMA is creating quite a stir. Dumas shows prostitutes, prisoners, and newborns in "Measuring Your Own Grave." Some critics say she "takes on Big Themes—sex, death, birth, race, motherhood—without sensationalizing or sentimentalizing them" while others say she's "perved up."Marlene Dumas is a South African painter whose exhibit of paintings and works on paper... more
Really great exhibit my photography professors are in. Check it out if you are in NYC and are looking for something to do or if you are interested in the history of printmaking.Really great exhibit my photography professors are in. Check it out if you are in NYC... more
The New York Times "the most uplifting show MoMA architecture and design department has presented since the museum reopened in 2004. Thanks to its imaginative breadth, we can begin to dream again."The New York Times "the most uplifting show MoMA architecture and design department... more
Shot live at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on Icelandic Independence Day, Sigur Rós @ MoMA is a unique concert film highlighting new material from the band's latest album, "Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust", as well as classic Sigur Rós songs. Directed by Alex Simmons.
Track Listing:
Glósoli
Sé Lest
Við spilum endalaust
Sæglópur
Icelandic National Anthem
Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
Hoppípolla
GobbledigookShot live at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on Icelandic Independence Day,... more
SMAC visits the latest show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called Home Delivery. The exhibit addresses one of the hot topics in architecture since 1833 - prefabricated housing.
The idea of making houses in factories speaks to such central issues as sustainability, low cost and speed of production and provides fertile ground for architectural experimentation, utopian thinking and futuristic designs. Barry Bergdoll, MoMA’s chief curator of Architecture & Design, gives SMAC a tour of the five houses erected for the show. These range from a second home on a beach to a digitally fabricated design that would replace the lost homes in New Orleans.
During the tour we spoke with the architects Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake of the Cellophane House, Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier of Burst* 008, and Oskar Leo Kaufmann of System3 about the specifics of their design.SMAC visits the latest show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called Home... more
In one of the odder stories we've spotted in some time, an installation called "Victimless Leather" was on display at NY's MoMA. The piece was actually a living jacket crafted from mouse embryonic stem cells, fed nutrients through tubes. But after five weeks, it grew too large for its containment flask and had to be killed.
The exhibit's curator cut the coat off from nutrition and it died thereafter. But the decision haunted her.
I've always been pro-choice and all of a sudden I'm here not sleeping at night about killing a coat...That thing was never alive before it was grown.
Personally, it's the image of a pulsating living rat coat that's going to keep me from sleeping. Did anyone see the exhibit?In one of the odder stories we've spotted in some time, an installation called... more
A curator at NY-MOMA had to euthanize a living leather jacket made from human mouse stem-cells -- the art-work had grown out of control and threatened to overflow its containment unit.
...One of the central works in the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May), Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells taken from mice, has died. The artists, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, say the work which was fed nutrients by tube, expanded too quickly and clogged its own incubation system just five weeks after the show opened...
Ms Antonelli says the jacket “started growing, growing, growing until it became too big. And [the artists] were back in Australia, so I had to make the decision to kill it. And you know what? I felt I could not make that decision. I’ve always been pro-choice and all of a sudden I’m here not sleeping at night about killing a coat...That thing was never alive before it was grown.” A curator at NY-MOMA had to euthanize a living leather jacket made from human mouse... more
