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Juno Scores at Spirit Awards

Harry Kimball — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:36:41 CST

Little-indy-that-could Juno won big at today’s Independent Spirit Awards, netting best actress for its star Ellen Page, best first script for writer Diablo Cody, and best feature film, the Los Angeles Times reports. The awards show, which honors only films made for less than $20 million, has drawn casually clad...

Unconventional Butterfly Soars

Sam Gale Rosen — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:50:28 CST

Critics adore The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, a movie based on the memoir of the paralyzed editor of French Elle . In the New Yorker, David Denby writes that the film has "some of the freest and most creative uses of the camera and some of the most daring, cruel,...

10 Years on, Bilbao Still Wows

Nick McMaster — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:48:42 CDT

Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao is ten years old this week, freshly buffed and looking better than ever, Bloomberg reports. The birthday is marked by a successful show of American heavyweights like Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel and Richard Serra. Bilbao continues to benefit from the cultural attention garnered by the building,...

Art Market Fuels Boom in Private Museums

Heather McPherson — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:13:36 CDT

Contemporary art collectors, no longer content to hang the Julian Schnabel over the sofa, are commissioning celebrity architects to design special exhibition spaces, complete with soaring ceilings, professional lighting, and temperature controls. With the art market booming, so is the market for private museums, worrying some observers that important works...