Tweet Velvet Underground band members Lou Reed and John Cale confirmed to The New York Post today that the iconic rock band filed a lawsuit against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for illegally licensing its famous banana…
The Morning Feed: Guggenheim Museum Proposed for Helsinki
Tweet The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation proposed a new overseas museum today to be built on city property on Helsinki’s south harbor next to the Alvar Aalto designed headquarters of the Finnish company Stora Enso. According to The Telegraph, Guggenheim…
HiFI: Vinyl Record Sales Soar to 3.9M in 2011
Tweet My holiday itinerary reached its funkiest beat when my visiting teen niece Natalie asked to visit the local indie record store in search of vinyl records. Her excitement at discovering racks of alternative vinyl albums in the basement of…
The Morning Feed: James Franco Lands Amazon Book Deal
Tweet Renaissance man extraordinaire James Franco adds another creative accomplishment to his already hefty arts résumé. According to The New York Observer, Franco is signing with Amazon Publishing and its fiction editor Ed Park to write his first novel, Actors…
The Morning Feed: Countdown to Season 2 Premiere of IFC’s ‘Portlandia’
Tweet For all the loyal fans that missed the sold out Portlandia The Tour stops, the good news is that the Season Two premiere of Portlandia featuring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein finally lands 10 p.m. EST Friday on IFC.…
The Morning Feed: Demi Moore to Play Gloria Steinem in Linda Lovelace drama
Tweet After 40 years of on-screen appearances in dramas, documentaries and TV chat shows, Ms. magazine co-founder, political activist and writer Gloria Steinem steps aside for actress Demi Moore to play her in Lovelace, co-directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s…