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The Handmade’s Tale
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on April 26, 2017
- We haven’t read much about the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s masterpiece The Handmaid’s Tale, but based on this review it looks like it’s going to be good and deeply disturbing. [Entertainment Weekly]
- Apparently the NFL has built a fake Philadelphia Museum of Art in front of the real Philadelphia Museum of Art for a televised event. [NBC Philadelphia]
- This is terrible news. Trump’s Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, wants to review every national monument designation made since 1996. This could lead to millions of acres of federally-protected land being opened to resource extraction or development. [Washington Post]
- The Marciano brothers (of GUESS Jeans fame and fortune) are now serious collectors. They’ve bought an old Masonic Temple on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and are in the midst of converting it to a contemporary art museum, which should open next month. The space sounds insane, with leftovers from odd rituals and massive rooms. [Los Angeles Magazine]
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art is talking with the City of New York about charging mandatory admission prices for out-of-towners, rather than voluntary. [The New York Times]
- Frances Stark is organizing an opera that cast children between the age of 10-19 in the orchestra. Why is this significant? The suggestion of this piece seems to be that it’s because she’s so involved with it, that she barely had time to make room for the Whitney Biennial. You’d think a better hook could be found. [The Guardian]
- Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is none too happy that Instagram has been censoring photos of their Imogen Cunningham exhibition. Apparently Cunningham’s abstracted nudes are just too sexy for the social media site’s community standards? [artnet News]
- What could France’s election mean for the art world? Surprisingly both Macron and Le Pen have vowed to make the cultural sector a priority, though of course Macron’s policies would include European exchange programs for arts professionals and Le Pen’s proposals include stopping the sale of heritage sites to foreigners. [The Arts Newspaper]
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