Helly Nahmad Gallery’s debuts exhibition of works by Chaim Soutine and Francis Bacon. The creative types line up. The art critics were there, but so was the Hollywood elite, among them Leonardo DiCaprio, Gisele Bundchen, Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr. … Read More
Prankster Eneas Capalbo’s ten-year joke. Through Feb. 14, Bill Powers’ little gallery that can–on 208 Forsyth Street–on the Lower East is showing portrait painter Eneas Capalbo’s ongoing series of George Condo send-ups. To many, his hilarious and eye-popping works, deceptively … Read More
The film adaptation of Hemingway’s ‘Garden of Even’ is casting-call heaven. Starring Jack Huston (we like the dude), Mena Suvari, Matthew Modine (eh) and Richard E. Grant (bow down), director John Irvin’s adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s posthumous-and disturbingly erotic 1986 … Read More
eff Koons’ haute-porn pictures resurrected on the UES. Jeff Koons elevated kitsch to high art and made millions of dollars doing it, laughing all the way to the bank and every major museum while critics carped on about commercialization, tackiness, … Read More
New Tilt-Shift technique makes the world look like a Lionel train set village. Huh! Small world! We just find this super-cool. Tilt-Shift miniature faking, as it’s called, is a technique in which a photograph of a life-size location is manipulated … Read More
“Blow”-meets-”Che”-meets-”Traffic”-meets-”Munich”-meets-”Inglorious Basterds”….but better? That’s our prediction. “Carlos,” a sleeper movie that blew the Cannes Film Festival audiences away and opens October 15 in theaters nationwide, is our pick as the dark horse running toward Oscar this year. Sexy-scary Venezuelan actor … Read More
Vintage movie poster website reminds us of the great ‘auteur’ moment in American cinema when even the marquee billings looked like high art. Check out this photo gallery of some of Room 100′s favorite movie posters of all time, all … Read More
In stroke of casting genius, Sacha Baron Cohen’s playing Freddie Mercury in upcoming bio-pic. From the screenplay writer of “Frost/Nixon,” will now come “Baron/Mercury,” or a new GK Fim-produced bio-pic about the life of the great fairy-butch Queen Singer, and … Read More
LACMA opens Resnick Pavilion This past weekend, L.A.’s art lovers came out to the masked “Avant-Garde Resnick Gala After Party,” to celebrate the Renzo Piano-designed new annex to the museum space. A regular hoohah in the sun. Guests included Mister … Read More
Bill Murray inspires an L.A. gallery exhibit. What’s more to say? Through September 30, the aptly named R&R Gallery in Los Angeles is showing an exhibit of more than 50 commissioned art pieces inspired by the man they call “Bill … Read More
The hard-partying fashion design icon is the subject of an intimate, upcoming documentary. L’Amour Fou, a new documentary on the life and 50-year relationship of Yves Saint Laurent, is hitting the Toronto Film Festival this Saturday, and coming soonish to … Read More
Georgia O’Keefe’s husband was one of the first photographers to really ‘get’ Manhattan. Photographer-filmmaker Cheryl Dunn does too. In Everybody Street, radical-chic photographer-filmmaker Cheryl Dunn-who lived blocks from Ground Zero and shot some of the most memorable photographs of the … Read More
Ben and Casey go neck in neck in the director’s chairs. Remember when Ben Affleck was considered a mook-y, one-hit wonder (“Good Will Hunting”), and his brother a sad-sack pilot fish to his brother? Both have become something entirely different, … Read More
Photographer Lee Friedlander takes an eye-opening road-trip to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Gas up to go. The great art photographer Lee Friedlander, whose works are featured in the Thompson LES hotel, loved Americana from the ’50s through the … Read More
Darren Ankenman’s lovely subjects make it look so easy Because we like a shot of the tastefully erotic, check out L.A.-based photographer Darren Ankenman’s luscious beauties. (NSFW) For more photographs, visit www.darrenankenman.com
