Illustration by Patrick Hoelck ARTSY EDITORIAL BY NATE FREEMAN It’s been a time-honored tradition for the monolithic figures of the auction world to eventually leave their perches at the rostrum and go off on their own, wading into the cushy, jet-set world of private advisory sales. Tobias Meyer left Sotheby’s to sell fabled estates such…
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Diller Says Hollywood Risks Getting Overtaken by Amazon, Netflix
(Bloomberg) — Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller said he worries that tech companies like Amazon.com Inc. and Netflix Inc. are consolidating power, threatening to undermine the way the entertainment industry works. “I’ve always thought concentration — too much concentration — is bad,” he said in an interview airing Wednesday on “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer…
BALMAIN REVEALS LINE-UP OF VIRTUAL MODELS FOR LATEST CAMPAIGN
For most fashion brands, casting well-known models in their advertising campaigns is essential to gaining the reputation and reach required to sell clothes. More recently, brands have begun casting social media influencers whose large followings have made them extra valuable. However luxury French fashion house Balmain has taken things in quite a different direction, making…
Leonardo DiCaprio, the Malaysian Money Scandal and His “Unusual” Foundation
According to the Justice Department, certain donations to the Oscar winner’s charity came directly from a multibillion-dollar embezzlement drama in Southeast Asia. On the evening of July 20, under a tent at a vineyard in St. Tropez brimming to his specifications with booze, billionaires and babes, Leonardo DiCaprio was preparing to host one of the…
Bret Easton Ellis on Podcasts, Politics and How His Dark Satire Predicted Trump’s America
Over the past three decades, novelist Bret Easton Ellis has dealt in ultraviolence, casual nihilism and the skewering of America’s superficialities. With his last book, Imperial Bedrooms approaching its 10-year anniversary, it began to seem that Ellis was spinning his wheels. With several savagely reviewed screenwriting ventures in recent years — the 2013 Lindsay Lohan/James Deen erotic…
What Will Become of the Dirtbag Left?
Matt Christman, Felix Biederman, and Will Menaker of the podcast “Chapo Trap House,” which emerged during the election as a popular progressive critic of Democrats. Illustration by Rebecca Clarke Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, and Will Menaker befriended each other on Twitter several years ago. They had common interests—international politics, making fun of journalists—and a shared comic…
Romanian People Noticed That Dior Copied Their Traditional Clothing And Decided To Fight Back In A Genius Way
Fashion brands quite often come under fire for shamelessly plagiarising other brands or artists and “borrowing” elements from local cultures. Last year, when Dior’s pre-fall collection came out, people began to notice that some of their clothes looked oddly familiar. The designs put the small Romanian region of Bihor in the spotlight. As it turns…
Disney Ups Its Bid for 21st Century Fox to $71.3 Billion
The Walt Disney Company sharply increased its offer for 21st Century Fox on Wednesday, as it looks to win a bidding war with Comcast for Rupert Murdoch’s entertainment conglomerate. In a quickly issued response, 21st Century Fox announced that it had entered into an agreement with Disney, adding that it considered the revamped offer, now…
Bohemian Rhapsody: first trailer of Queen and Freddie Mercury biopic released
First footage goes online of long-in-development film about big-selling British rockers, starring Mr Robot’s Rami Malek The first full trailer of the long-gestating Queen and Freddie Mercury biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, has been released onto the internet. Starring Mr Robot’s Rami Malek as Mercury, the band’s exuberant lead singer who died in 1991, anticipation had been stoked…
Bret Easton Ellis Warns More Celebrities Will Choose the Red Pill à la Kanye West
As corporate progressivism vies against Trumpian nationalism for the future of America’s Empire, celebrities are inciting their own upheaval within Hollywood. American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis warned for years of an impending shift against progressive values in a town long touted as a bastion of liberalism. Following Kanye West’s controversial break with liberalism over Twitter and TMZ, Ellis…
