📺 WATCH: 2019’s Academy Award winners: [ninja_tables id=”774″] The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards were announced on January 22, 2019, at 5:20 a.m. PST (13:20 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by actors Kumail Nanjiani and Tracee Ellis Ross.[4][5] Awards Best Picture Black Panther – Kevin Feige BlacKkKlansman – Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee Bohemian Rhapsody – Graham King The Favourite – Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos Green Book – Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga Roma – Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón A Star Is Born – Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor Vice – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin J. Messick Best Director Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman Paweł Pawlikowski – Cold War Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite Alfonso Cuarón – Roma Adam McKay

PA PALM SPRINGS, California (AP) — Bradley Cooper, Spike Lee, Olivia Colman and other Oscar contenders kicked off Hollywood’s 2019 awards season with an emotional trip to the desert city of Palm Springs. The Palm Springs International Film Festival gala was a familiar setting for Cooper, who received director of the year honors on Thursday. He had presented the same trophy to his “Silver Linings Playbook” director David O. Russell six years ago, and filmed key “A Star is Born” scenes in the area. First-time director Cooper choked up while thanking co-star Sam Elliott for his “blind faith,” saying, “It’s just a testament that if you believe in something so strong and you’re willing to work tirelessly, you can get great artists like Sam Elliott.” “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” star Melissa McCarthy and “The Favourite” star Colman both held back tears when talking about their husbands on stage. (…continue

Cai Guo-Qiang has literally exploded the accepted parameters of art making in our time. Drawing freely from ancient mythology, military history, Taoist cosmology, extraterrestrial observations, Maoist revolutionary tactics, Buddhist philosophy, gunpowder-related technology, Chinese medicine, and methods of terrorist violence, Cai’s art is a form of social energy, constantly mutable, linking what he refers to as “the seen and unseen worlds.” This retrospective presents the full spectrum of the artist’s protean, multimedia art in all its conceptual complexity.     Read more >>

January 3-14, 2019 On Thursday, January 3, the annual Film Awards Gala will kick off the festival at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The screening portion of the festival will run Friday, January 4 through Monday, January 14.  On January 4, the festival will run screenings all day with the official Opening Night screening taking place that evening at Richards Center for the Arts with a party to follow – location TBD. The festival will close on Sunday, January 13, with Best of the Fest screenings taking place Monday, January 14. The Palm Springs International Film Festival is one of the largest film festivals in North America, welcoming over 135,000 attendees each year for its lineup of new and celebrated international features and documentaries.  The Festival is also known for its annual Film Awards Gala, honoring the best achievements of the filmic year by a celebrated list of talents.  Produced

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View this post on Instagram ‘Humankind is represented by mankind … Fake news!’, said Judy Chicago, laughing, when she met Art Basel’s video team at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. Most of the artist’s forty-year-long career has been spent debunking that myth. Her best-known work, ‘The Dinner Party’ (1974–1979), celebrates the role of women throughout history. The monumental installation has drawn over one million of visitors since its first display and is now permanently housed at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City.‘ The Dinner Party’ has sometimes overshadowed the diversity of Chicago’s practice. Yet she has tackled minimalism, land art, history painting, and embroidery, addressing topics as diverse as male domination, depression, and the Holocaust. For the ‘Birth Project (1980–85), Chicago turned her eye to what she saw as a major blind spot in art history: the representation of

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