Says critic David Apatoff, “The parallel is very exact. Just like [Norman] Rockwell was the centerpiece of the Saturday Evening Post, Drucker did the same thing for Mad magazine with his parodies. They were kind of looking at each other through a mirror.” – The Washington Post
Tag: 04.09.20
America’s Largest Cinema Chain Will Probably Go Bankrupt: Analysts
“AMC Theatres — whose business has effectively shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic — looks increasingly likely to file for bankruptcy with its cash reserves dwindling, according to Wall Street analysts. … Even if AMC is able to tap government bailout funds, [an analyst] wrote, the company’s high leverage ratio — with $4.75 billion in debt — ‘will make for tough sledding … thus making a reorganization inevitable.'” – Variety
New York State Fines Christie’s $16.7 Million For Not Collecting Sales Tax
“Christie’s auction house has agreed to pay $16.7 million to the Manhattan District Attorney for failing to properly collect New York sales tax between 2013 and 2017. The bombshell settlement, which follows a lengthy investigation into the company, was announced by the DA’s office today.” – Artnet
Schubert and Mendelssohn on the verge of nervous breakdowns (like the rest of us)
Hundreds of performances of Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 (“Death and the Maiden”) have come my way over the decades, but none seized me from the very first notes like the new recording by the vision string quartet, titled Memento, recently issued on Erato. – David Patrick Stearns
Future Jazz past: Hal Willner, circa 1992
The death of this funny, smart, idiosyncratic, unique music producer at age 64 saddens me. We were East Village neighbors in the go-go ’90s, flush with ideas to try in the future. Here’s my entry about him from Future Jazz. – Howard Mandel
France Orders Google To Pay News Outlets For The Snippets It Displays In Search Results
“The French antitrust agency gave the Alphabet Inc. unit three months to thrash out deals with press publishers and agencies demanding talks on how to remunerate them for displaying their content. The search engine giant may have abused its dominant market power, causing ‘serious and immediate harm’ to the media, the Autorité de la concurrence warned in its statement on Thursday.” – Bloomberg
When Art Became Advertising – And The Man Who Helped Make It So
“Advertising was like art, and more and more art was like advertising. Ideally, the only difference would be the logo. Advertising could take up the former causes of art—philosophy, beauty, mystery, empire. There are no ethics in fashion. There are no ethics in magazines. There are no ethics in advertising.” – New York Review of Books