Hollywood celebrates Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics at Gold Meets Golden
Hollywood has long been inspired by the sports industry and vice versa, but rarely do these two worlds have the chance to mix and mingle. Los Angeles welcomed many of the world’s greatest athletes to celebrate during one of the year’s most golden weekends. The seventh anniversary Gold Meets Golden event, on Saturday, January […]
Giorgio Armani, Daniel Lee, Kim Jones scoop top honours at the Fashion Awards 2019
British Fashion Council Top honours at this year’s Fashion Awards—formerly the British Fashion Awards—went to Giorgio Armani, Daniel Lee for Bottega Veneta, and Kim Jones for Dior Men, in a spectacular night at the Royal Albert Hall in London, hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross and attended by 4,000 guests. As well as presenters and […]
December 12 event at Pullman Bercy promises wild competition
Something definitely intriguing is afoot at Paris’s Pullman Bercy Hotel following the recent introduction of a performance programme dubbed Artnights. A sub-brand of the monolithic Accor chain, the property innovated weekly intersections with the young and avant-garde, aimed at seducing locals and hyperconnected international travellers. Twenty nineteen’s final Artnight happens on Thursday, December 12, well […]
Michael Holman’s art to be exhibited in Amagansett, NY
Rob Northway Top: Seven Steps to Hell, by Michael Holman. Above: Holman in 2019. Below right: Holman with Jean-Michel Basquiat. Nick Taylor The American artist Michael Holman isn’t as notorious, prolific or inflammatory as his confidant and colleague Jean-Michel Basquiat. He might be as controversial. A co-founder of the punk legend’s band Gray, Holman was […]
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Hansel & Gretel: a family ballet where creativity fires on all cylinders
Nicola Edmonds Stephen A’Court Garth Badger; make-up by Kiekie Stanners Hansel & Gretel, the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s newest production, answers an important question: what can be made when you have every creative firing on all cylinders? Here we have Loughlan Prior (right) with his first full-length ballet, based on the Grimm Brothers’ collected […]
Kevin Winter Amy Sussman Sunday night’s 23rd annual Hollywood Film Awards might not traditionally be part of the usual awards’ circuit Lucire covers, but, as Dick Clark Productions, which is behind the show, points out, over 140 of the honorees have gone on to win Oscar nominations and wins, and over 340 stars and filmmakers […]
Paris Opéra Ballet wows with two works at the Palais Garnier
Kirstin O’Brien Above, from top: Interior staircase at the Palais Garnier. The Palais Garnier’s façade. The author admiring the beauty of the Golden Room. Below right: The author on the balcony at the Palais Garnier. When one of the world’s most respected ballet companies collaborates with artistic geniuses from the arts, fashion and music creatives, […]
Japanese craft beers hit Los Angeles’ art district
Above, from top: Herbert Johnson, Johnny Le, Atelier Ace’s Ryan Bukstein. Remarkable sushi from chef Octavio Olivas on artisan dinnerware by Gabriela Forgo. On Thursday, a tsunami of beer and sushi lovers descended on Art & Fish, a fast casual eatery in the bustling art district of LA, transformed into a pop-up event entitled Drink […]
Brandy honoured at BMI’s R&B–hip-hop awards
Paras Griffin On Thursday night, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) held its R&B–hip-hop awards at the Sandy Springs Arts’ Center in Atlanta, Ga., with Brandy receiving the BMI President’s Award. The event was hosted by BMI president and CEO Mike O’Neill and vice-president, creative, Atlanta, Catherine Brewton. The event began with a tribute to […]
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to perform Skyfall score to coincide with Bond 25 release
Danjaq LLC/United Artists/Columbia Pictures As far as James Bond scores go, I don’t regard Thomas Newman’s one for Skyfall to be a classic. It has some decent cues—the Shanghai ones of ‘Brave New World’ and ‘Shanghai Drive’ come to mind—but for those of us raised on the music of John Barry, which you can listen […]
