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The Big Curator, Bad Renoir, Mapping Time Travel, and Lucas Returns to Director’s Chair

  FLAG Art’s “Size DOES Matter” exhibition curated by Shaquille O’Neal (yes, THAT, Shaquille O’Neal) opens at their New York gallery this Friday. (Animal)   Have all the various forms of time travel in movies over the years twisted your little brain into a Gordian knot? This infographic might just help. (Good)   Attention, all you Pacific Northwest hipsters: Vampire ... Read More »

The “Lost Art of ‘Inglourious Basterds'” To Aid Haiti Relief in L.A.

  Think you’ve seen all the bloodshed, bullets, and baseball bats you were going to get from Quentin Tarantino for a while? Wrong. Thanks to an exhibit by West Coast streetwear and skateboard kings Upper Playground, you’ve got 12 new stomach-turning takes on Tarantino’s “Natzi Killin'” whopper, “Inglourious Basterds”, and a chance to help the people of Haiti. Read More »

Architect’s Photos Offer Entry into The Mad, Marbled World of the Flaming Lips

  Continuing today’s unintended theme of rock-and-roll real estate, a post over on Pitchfork brought to our attention these photos and sketches of the recently rehabbed Oklahoma City house of Flaming Lips frontman and OKC native, Wayne Coyne. Already we had thrilled to Coyne and co. enjoying a public bath on the premises via Google Earth. Now we get a ... Read More »

Rock and Roll Real Estate: Legendary Abbey Road Studios Up for Sale by EMI

  Well here’s a unique commercial real-estate offering from the London market—record-label giant EMI is putting Abbey Road Studios, the legendary studios where much of the Beatles catalog and hundreds of thousands of other songs were first committed to tape. Located in the posh St John’s Wood, Abbey Road has become as famous for its exterior, featured on the Fab ... Read More »

A Happy 100th to Django Reinhardt, Gypsy Master of Hot Jazz

  Looks like we missed a big one last month when we forgot to wish a happy 100th birthday to the man who made “hot jazz” an international hit, Roma guitarist Django Reinhardt. Sure, the guy may have passed on to that great caravan in the sky some 57 years ago, but his importance and influence have not dimmed in ... Read More »

Caravaggio’s Friends and Foes Gather at London’s Whitfield Galleries

  With a reputation as a genius of oils, a bon vivant, and a brawler, Michelangelo Merisi, known more popularly as Caravaggio, was bound to attract as many admirers as haters, as many compatriots as foes. Cleverly, a London-based gallery specializing in Old Masters, Whitfield Fine Arts, has collected the Roman master of chiaroscuro’s most fervent followers and detractors under ... Read More »

Na’vi Protest Israel, Black Metal Meditates, and The Jungle Atop The Met

  Palestinian protesters demonstrating against the Israeli separation barrier wall at their border stocked up on blue bodypaint and showed up dressed as Na’vi characters from “Avatar”. (HuffPo)   Canada’s new national park near the Mealy Mountains will be bigger than Yosemite and Yellowstone combined. Suck it, U.S. Department of the Interior! (Jaunted)   Learn about the spiritual side of ... Read More »

Scorsese, DeNiro to Create New “Taxi Driver” With Von Trier?

  An interesting bit of news coming out of Germany’s Berlinale Film Festival is only slightly more odd than the idea of Werner Herzog redoing Abel Ferrara’s “Bad Lieutenant” with Nic Gage (which, if you don’t remember, actually happened). According to multiple reports coming out of Berlin, Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro are currently mulling a remake of of their ... Read More »

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