“Our suspension of disbelief — the very thing that we need for the art form to work — dissipates. The smoothness and clarity of the image doesn’t make us feel like we’re sitting in a room with the characters from Gemini Man, it makes us feel like we’re suddenly sitting on the set with the actors from Gemini Man, watching them struggle through their lines.” What’s more, explains Bilge Ebiri, Ang Lee, who loves 120 fps tech so much, “is possibly the major director least suited to trying to make high frame rates work.” – Vulture
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One Of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms Is At The Center Of A $14 Million Lawsuit
“The lawsuit [filed in Miami-Dade County] concerns a group of works that Miami dealer Inigo Philbrick and his gallery are allegedly withholding from Fine Art Partners (FAP), a Germany-based financial services company specialized in the art market.” That set of artworks includes pieces by Donald Judd, Christopher Wool, and Wade Guyton, as well as Kusama’s All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins. – ARTnews
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between The World And Me’ Is Now A Play, And It’s About To Tour The U.S
One of the first things that Kamilah Forbes did when she became executive producer at the Apollo Theater in Harlem was contact Coates, an old friend from college, and ask to adapt his award-winning memoir. “Book reading can be so solitary; we read our books by ourselves, and unless you’re part of a book club, do you really engage within the topics or in the actual writing or primarily the topic that the book discusses?” Forbes said. “The question was about how can we use theatre as this collective form of communication to have the broader conversation with the book.” – American Theatre
Less Than A Decade Ago, The Detroit Symphony Seemed Doomed. Now, It’s Thriving
On top of a declining audience and debt, the orchestra had to weather a huge loss of endowment value during the Great Recession, a very bitter 2010-11 strike, and the city of Detroit’s bankruptcy. Now the DSO is expecting its seventh consecutive balanced budget, lower ticket prices and concerts in Detroit neighborhoods have led to a spurt of audience growth that includes students, and the orchestra made its first overseas tour in 16 years, wowing audiences in China and Japan. And much of the credit for all this good news goes to CEO Anne Parsons. – The Detroit News
Seems France Thinks ‘Salvator Mundi’ Might Still Arrive For Part Of The Louvre’s Big Leonardo 500 Show
Just last week, the French government amended the document indemnifying all loans of artwork for the exhibition to cover Salvator Mundi if it arrives anytime before the end of this year. What’s more, documents show that France was negotiating for the loan of the painting up to the last week of September. – The Art Newspaper
In One Week After Winning The Booker Prize, Bernardine Evaristo Doubled Her Lifetime Book Sales
Seems having to share the award with Margaret Atwood wasn’t so bad after all. “New sales figures from Nielsen BookScan show that, in the five days following its win last Monday, Girl, Woman, Other sold 5,980 copies, a stratospheric 1,340% boost in sales week on week.” – The Guardian
The Throat-Singing Mongolian Rock Band That Has Taken Worldwide Music Charts By Storm
Their first two videos, for Wolf Totem, and Yuve Yuve Yu (or How Strange, How Strange) have amassed more than 45m views on YouTube over the last year, while their debut album, The Gereg, opened at No 1 on Billboard’s Top New Artist chart and No 2 on the magazine’s Indie Label chart. – The Guardian
Conductor Raymond Leppard, 92
He was part of a generation of musicians who, aided by the burgeoning recording industry, helped revive Baroque music in concert halls after World War II. That group included Nikolaus Harnoncourt of Austria and Neville Marriner of Britain. – The New York Times
How Unionizing Has Helped Hollywood Assistants
“The recent outcry online over the low wages, high stress and professional instability that assistants face — given a voice through the hashtag #PayUpHollywood — has served to highlight the significance of writers’ assistants and script coordinators’ successful unionization efforts.” – Variety
The Oscars Have Become More Politicized. More Troubled
“The Academy’s response to any criticism no matter how facile or valid—including accusations of radical leftism, elitism, racism, sexism, and general mustiness—has been to make vague, grand mission statements while frantically ushering some younger, less white, and less male Academy members into the ranks. The result has been generally non-transformative.” – The Daily Beast