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Thursday, March 03, 2022

As ( Sydney ) London Prices Out Artists, They’re Leaving. And The City’s Role As Arts Center Is Dimming

 CEO Magazine Executive of the Year Awards 2021 - Guest Speaker Christine Holgate delivered one of the most deeply moving, inspirational and powerful speeches on leadership and dealing with the corruption of the Morrison government.

Ousted Aus Post boss Holgate wins national leadership award


Acceptance speech - CEO Magazine Executive of the Year Awards 2021 - Christine Holgate


As London Prices Out Artists, They’re Leaving. And The City’s Role As Arts Center Is Dimming

 In the past couple of decades, artists have migrated from the East End — where the Whitechapel is — to Peckham and various other spots in southeast London. Some are now settling in coastal towns such as Margate and Folkestone. The exodus poses a threat to London’s status as...

Honeysuckle by Rebecca Hey from The Moral of Flowers, 1833. (Available as a print.)

Why Francis Ford Coppola Has Done A New Restoration Of “The Godfather” For Its 50th Anniversary

"Paramount was very unprepared for (the film's) success. … Instead of saying, let's preserve the original negative because it's going to be a valuable asset, they basically wore it out something awful because they used it to make so many prints." - The New York Times


Francis Ford Coppola Is Going To Spend $120 Million Of His Own Money To Make His Dream Movie

"It is a film called Megalopolis, and Coppola has been trying to make it, intermittently, for more than 40 years. If I could summarize the plot for you in a concise way, I would, but I can't, because Coppola can't either." - GQ


An Unpublished Leonard Cohen Novel Is Coming

"Written in Montreal in 1956 – the year Cohen published his first poetry collection – A Ballet of Lepers focuses on 'toxic relationships and the lengths one will go to maintain them'." - The Guardian