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Artist refuses to open Israeli pavilion at Venice Biennale until cease-fire, hostage release
By Colleen Barry, The Associated Press on April 16th, 2024
VENICE, Italy (AP) – The artist and curators representing Israel at this year’s Venice Biennale announced Tuesday they won’t open the Israeli pavilion exhibition until there is a cease-fire in Gaza and an agreement to release hostages. Their decision was posted on a sign in the window of the Israeli national pavilion on the first ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Israel artist refuses to open Israel pavilion at Venice Biennale pending cease-fire, hostage release
By Colleen Barry, The Associated Press on April 16th, 2024
VENICE, Italy (AP) – The artist and curators representing Israel at this year’s Venice Biennale announced they won’t open the Israeli pavilion exhibition until there is a cease-fire in Gaza and an agreement to release hostages. Their decision was posted on a sign on the Israeli national pavilion Tuesday, the first day of media previews, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!ABBA, Blondie, and the Notorious B.I.G. enter the National Recording Registry
By Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press on April 16th, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – ABBA, Biggie, Blondie and Rudolph are entering America’s audio canon. New inductees into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress include ABBA ‘s 1976 album “Visitors,” The Notorious B.I.G. ‘s 1994 album “Ready to Die,” Blondie ‘s 1978 breakthrough “Parallel Lines” and Gene Autry’s 1949 version of “Rudolph the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!What to know about the prison sentence for a movie armorer in a fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin
By Morgan Lee, The Associated Press on April 15th, 2024
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A movie weapons armorer received the maximum sentence of 18 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on a Western movie set, as authorities now turn their focus on prosecution of Baldwin himself. A New Mexico judge on Monday found that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Characters enter the public domain. Winnie the Pooh becomes a killer. Where is remix culture going?
By Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press on April 15th, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The giant stuffed bear, its face a twisted smile, lumbers across the screen. Menacing music swells. Shadows mask unknown threats. Christopher Robin begs for his life. And is that a sledgehammer about to pulverize a minor character’s head? Thus unfolds the trailer for the 2023 movie “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Salman Rushdie’s ‘Knife’ is unflinching about his brutal stabbing and uncanny in its vital spirit
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on April 15th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – In Salman Rushdie’s first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him blind in one eye, the author wastes no time reliving the day he thought might be his last. “At a quarter to eleven on August 12, 2022, on a sunny Friday morning in upstate New York, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Paris Hilton backs California bill to bring more transparency to youth treatment facilities
By Trân Nguyễn, The Associated Press on April 15th, 2024
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Paris Hilton joined California state lawmakers Monday to push for legislation aimed at cracking down on the industry that cares for troubled teens by requiring more transparency from youth treatment facilities. The bill supported by the Hilton Hotel heiress and media personality aims to pry open information on how short-term residential ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In war saga ‘The Sympathizer,’ Vietnamese voices are no longer stuck in the background
By Terry Tang, The Associated Press on April 15th, 2024
Vietnamese journalist-turned-filmmaker Phanxinê remembers exactly when he decided to make movies in his native country rather than Hollywood. It was in 2008 but it could have been a satirical scene out of the Vietnam Era-novel “The Sympathizer.” Someone from a movie studio visiting his University of Southern California film class told him his story pitch ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Gun supervisor for ‘Rust’ movie gets 18 months in prison for fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin on set
By Morgan Lee, The Associated Press on April 15th, 2024
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A movie weapons supervisor was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust,” at a sentencing hearing Monday in a New Mexico state court. Movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted in March by a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cardi B, Queen Latifah and The Roots to headline the BET Experience concerts in Los Angeles
By The Associated Press on April 15th, 2024
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Cardi B, Queen Latifah and The Roots will headline concerts to celebrate the return of the BET Experience in Los Angeles just days before the 2024 BET Awards. BET announced Monday the star-studded lineup of the concert series, which makes a return after a five-year hiatus. It was canceled ahead of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fashion isn’t just for the eyes: Upcoming Met Gala exhibit aims to be a multi-sensory experience
By Jocelyn Noveck, The Associated Press on April 15th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Fashion, most would surely agree, is meant to be seen. Not heard, and certainly not smelled. But Andrew Bolton, the curatorial mastermind behind the blockbuster fashion exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, begs to differ. His newest show, to be launched by the starry Met Gala next month, ... Read More »
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