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The Advertiser
2 days ago
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- The Advertiser
Long-awaited probe into dumped Biennale artists lands
A review of the selection process for Australia's dumped Venice Biennale team has been handed to the federal government's peak arts body. Creative Australia commissioned the review following uproar in the arts world over the dumping of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino. The pair had been announced in February as the nation's picks for the Venice Biennale, contemporary art's most prestigious event. But they were rapidly disinvited when some of Sabsabi's early work, which referenced terrorism, was raised in federal parliament, and a last-minute meeting of the Creative Australia board quickly overturned the selection. More than 4000 people, including some of Australia's most respected artists, have since called for Sabsabi and Dagostino to be reinstated. Creative Australia announced the appointment of consultants Blackhall & Pearl in March, however their terms of reference did not explicitly require scrutiny of how Sabsabi and Dagostino were dumped. In a statement issued late on Wednesday, Creative Australia said its board had received a copy of the review and was carefully considering the findings. "The board is committed to transparency and intends to release the report in full once it has reviewed its contents and is in a position to formally respond to the recommendations," the arts agency said in a statement. At a Senate estimates hearing examining the controversy in February, Creative Australia chief executive Adrian Colette said the review of the biennale selection process would be critical in rebuilding confidence and should not take more than a few weeks. He repeatedly told the hearing a selection process to replace the art team "will have to happen in parallel" to the external review. But in the months since the review was launched, there has been no sign of a formal process to find a replacement team to send to the Biennale. That raises the likelihood Australia's official pavilion at the event will stand empty a year after the nation won the Biennale's prestigious Golden Lion for the first time. Creative Australia initially rescinded its invitation to Sabsabi and Dagostino on the grounds it would cause a prolonged and divisive debate and that it posed an unacceptable risk to public support for Australia's artistic community. A review of the selection process for Australia's dumped Venice Biennale team has been handed to the federal government's peak arts body. Creative Australia commissioned the review following uproar in the arts world over the dumping of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino. The pair had been announced in February as the nation's picks for the Venice Biennale, contemporary art's most prestigious event. But they were rapidly disinvited when some of Sabsabi's early work, which referenced terrorism, was raised in federal parliament, and a last-minute meeting of the Creative Australia board quickly overturned the selection. More than 4000 people, including some of Australia's most respected artists, have since called for Sabsabi and Dagostino to be reinstated. Creative Australia announced the appointment of consultants Blackhall & Pearl in March, however their terms of reference did not explicitly require scrutiny of how Sabsabi and Dagostino were dumped. In a statement issued late on Wednesday, Creative Australia said its board had received a copy of the review and was carefully considering the findings. "The board is committed to transparency and intends to release the report in full once it has reviewed its contents and is in a position to formally respond to the recommendations," the arts agency said in a statement. At a Senate estimates hearing examining the controversy in February, Creative Australia chief executive Adrian Colette said the review of the biennale selection process would be critical in rebuilding confidence and should not take more than a few weeks. He repeatedly told the hearing a selection process to replace the art team "will have to happen in parallel" to the external review. But in the months since the review was launched, there has been no sign of a formal process to find a replacement team to send to the Biennale. That raises the likelihood Australia's official pavilion at the event will stand empty a year after the nation won the Biennale's prestigious Golden Lion for the first time. Creative Australia initially rescinded its invitation to Sabsabi and Dagostino on the grounds it would cause a prolonged and divisive debate and that it posed an unacceptable risk to public support for Australia's artistic community. A review of the selection process for Australia's dumped Venice Biennale team has been handed to the federal government's peak arts body. Creative Australia commissioned the review following uproar in the arts world over the dumping of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino. The pair had been announced in February as the nation's picks for the Venice Biennale, contemporary art's most prestigious event. But they were rapidly disinvited when some of Sabsabi's early work, which referenced terrorism, was raised in federal parliament, and a last-minute meeting of the Creative Australia board quickly overturned the selection. More than 4000 people, including some of Australia's most respected artists, have since called for Sabsabi and Dagostino to be reinstated. Creative Australia announced the appointment of consultants Blackhall & Pearl in March, however their terms of reference did not explicitly require scrutiny of how Sabsabi and Dagostino were dumped. In a statement issued late on Wednesday, Creative Australia said its board had received a copy of the review and was carefully considering the findings. "The board is committed to transparency and intends to release the report in full once it has reviewed its contents and is in a position to formally respond to the recommendations," the arts agency said in a statement. At a Senate estimates hearing examining the controversy in February, Creative Australia chief executive Adrian Colette said the review of the biennale selection process would be critical in rebuilding confidence and should not take more than a few weeks. He repeatedly told the hearing a selection process to replace the art team "will have to happen in parallel" to the external review. But in the months since the review was launched, there has been no sign of a formal process to find a replacement team to send to the Biennale. That raises the likelihood Australia's official pavilion at the event will stand empty a year after the nation won the Biennale's prestigious Golden Lion for the first time. Creative Australia initially rescinded its invitation to Sabsabi and Dagostino on the grounds it would cause a prolonged and divisive debate and that it posed an unacceptable risk to public support for Australia's artistic community. A review of the selection process for Australia's dumped Venice Biennale team has been handed to the federal government's peak arts body. Creative Australia commissioned the review following uproar in the arts world over the dumping of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino. The pair had been announced in February as the nation's picks for the Venice Biennale, contemporary art's most prestigious event. But they were rapidly disinvited when some of Sabsabi's early work, which referenced terrorism, was raised in federal parliament, and a last-minute meeting of the Creative Australia board quickly overturned the selection. More than 4000 people, including some of Australia's most respected artists, have since called for Sabsabi and Dagostino to be reinstated. Creative Australia announced the appointment of consultants Blackhall & Pearl in March, however their terms of reference did not explicitly require scrutiny of how Sabsabi and Dagostino were dumped. In a statement issued late on Wednesday, Creative Australia said its board had received a copy of the review and was carefully considering the findings. "The board is committed to transparency and intends to release the report in full once it has reviewed its contents and is in a position to formally respond to the recommendations," the arts agency said in a statement. At a Senate estimates hearing examining the controversy in February, Creative Australia chief executive Adrian Colette said the review of the biennale selection process would be critical in rebuilding confidence and should not take more than a few weeks. He repeatedly told the hearing a selection process to replace the art team "will have to happen in parallel" to the external review. But in the months since the review was launched, there has been no sign of a formal process to find a replacement team to send to the Biennale. That raises the likelihood Australia's official pavilion at the event will stand empty a year after the nation won the Biennale's prestigious Golden Lion for the first time. Creative Australia initially rescinded its invitation to Sabsabi and Dagostino on the grounds it would cause a prolonged and divisive debate and that it posed an unacceptable risk to public support for Australia's artistic community.
Perth Now
3 days ago
- Politics
- Perth Now
Long-awaited probe into dumped Biennale artists lands
A review of the selection process for Australia's dumped Venice Biennale team has been handed to the federal government's peak arts body. Creative Australia commissioned the review following uproar in the arts world over the dumping of artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino. The pair had been announced in February as the nation's picks for the Venice Biennale, contemporary art's most prestigious event. But they were rapidly disinvited when some of Sabsabi's early work, which referenced terrorism, was raised in federal parliament, and a last-minute meeting of the Creative Australia board quickly overturned the selection. More than 4000 people, including some of Australia's most respected artists, have since called for Sabsabi and Dagostino to be reinstated. Creative Australia announced the appointment of consultants Blackhall & Pearl in March, however their terms of reference did not explicitly require scrutiny of how Sabsabi and Dagostino were dumped. In a statement issued late on Wednesday, Creative Australia said its board had received a copy of the review and was carefully considering the findings. "The board is committed to transparency and intends to release the report in full once it has reviewed its contents and is in a position to formally respond to the recommendations," the arts agency said in a statement. At a Senate estimates hearing examining the controversy in February, Creative Australia chief executive Adrian Colette said the review of the biennale selection process would be critical in rebuilding confidence and should not take more than a few weeks. He repeatedly told the hearing a selection process to replace the art team "will have to happen in parallel" to the external review. But in the months since the review was launched, there has been no sign of a formal process to find a replacement team to send to the Biennale. That raises the likelihood Australia's official pavilion at the event will stand empty a year after the nation won the Biennale's prestigious Golden Lion for the first time. Creative Australia initially rescinded its invitation to Sabsabi and Dagostino on the grounds it would cause a prolonged and divisive debate and that it posed an unacceptable risk to public support for Australia's artistic community.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kim Novak to Receive Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Legendary Hollywood actress Kim Novak (Vertigo, Picnic, Bell, Book and Candle) will be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia (Aug. 27–Sept. 6). Venice also unveiled that the documentary Kim Novak's Vertigo by Alexandre Philippe, 'made in exclusive collaboration with the actress,' will be presented in its world premiere during the festival. More from The Hollywood Reporter BFI Report Sets Out 9 Recommendations to Ensure "Ethical, Sustainable, Inclusive AI" Use Indies and Icons, Tentpoles and Oscar Contenders: Annecy at 40 Sets the Animation Agenda Netflix Inks Creative Partnership With Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms in India The decision about the honor was made by the board of directors of La Biennale, based on the recommendation of the artistic director of the festival, Alberto Barbera, organizers said Monday. 'I am deeply, deeply touched to receive the prestigious Golden Lion Award from such an enormously respected film festival,' said Novak. 'To be recognized for my body of work at this time in my life is a dream come true. I will treasure every moment I spend in Venice. It will fill my heart with joy.' Said Venice artistic director Barbera: 'Inadvertently becoming a screen legend, Kim Novak was one of the most beloved icons of an entire era of Hollywood films, from her auspicious debut during the mid-1950s until her premature and voluntary exile from the gilded cage of Los Angeles a short while later. She never refrained from criticizing the studio system, choosing her roles, who she let into her private life and even her name. Forced to renounce her given name, Marilyn Pauline, because it was associated with Monroe, she fought to conserve her last name, agreeing, in exchange, to dye her hair that shade of platinum blonde which set her apart. Independent and nonconformist, she created her own production company and went on strike to renegotiate a salary that was much lower than that of her male co-stars.' Barbera continued: 'Thanks to her exuberant beauty, her ability to bring to life characters who were naïve and discreet, as well as sensuous and tormented, and her seductive and sometimes sorrowful gaze, she was appreciated by some of the major American directors of the period, from Billy Wilder (Kiss Me, Stupid), to Otto Preminger (The Man With the Golden Arm), Robert Aldrich (The Legend of Lylah Clare), George Sidney (The Eddy Duchin Story, Jeanne Eagels, Pal Joey), and Richard Quine, with whom she made unforgettable romantic comedies (Pushover, Bell, Book and Candle, Strangers When We Meet, The Notorious Landlady). But her image will remain forever linked to the dual characters she played in Hitchcock's Vertigo, which became the role of her life. This Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement celebrates a star who was emancipated, a rebel at the heart of Hollywood who illuminated the dreams of movie lovers before retiring to her ranch in Oregon to dedicate herself to painting and to her horses.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts Hollywood Stars Who Are One Award Away From an EGOT 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Stephen Curry, Nicola Coughlan, Patton Oswalt Lead All-Star Voice Cast of Sony's ‘GOAT'
NBA superstar Stephen Curry is taking on his first major acting role in GOAT, a basketball-themed animated feature from Sony Pictures Animation. The action-comedy, directed by Tyree Dillihay (Bob's Burgers), and Adam Rosette is set in an all-animal world and follows Will, a little goat with big dreams who gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball – a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world. Curry is also a producer on the feature. More from The Hollywood Reporter Whoopi Goldberg Co-Founded All Women's Sports Network, Pluto TV Launch FAST Channel Warner Bros. Discovery to Split Into Two: Streaming and Studios, Global Networks Kim Novak to Receive Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Sony on Monday unveiled the main voice cast for GOAT on Monday. Joining Curry on the roarball court are Stranger Things alums Caleb McLaughlin and David Harbour; Bad Boys II actress Gabrielle Union; Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan; Black-ish actress Jennifer Lewis; actor and comedian Patton Oswalt (Ratatouille, Young Adult); and veteran writer and voice actor Nick Kroll (Big Mouth). The star-studded voice cast was announced out of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on Monday, June 9, where Sony screened exclusive footage of GOAT for the first time. Curry is producing the feature together with Erick Peyton of Unanimous Media and alongside Michelle Raimo Kouyate, Adam Rosenberg, and Rodney Rothman of Modern Magic. David Schulenburg co-produced the project, with Rick Mischel and Fonda Snyder as executive producers. The film marks Curry's first foray into animation, but he was an executive producer on Roxann Dawson's 2019 biopic Breakthrough, and a producer on the documentaries Sentenced and Good Shot, among other projects. Sony Pictures Animation is releasing GOAT in collaboration with the NBA theatrically on February 13, 2026, timed to the NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, which runs Feb. 13–15. The 40th Annecy film festival runs through June 14. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts Hollywood Stars Who Are One Award Away From an EGOT 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now
Khaleej Times
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Khaleej Times
US actor Kim Novak to receive Venice film festival career award
Kim Novak, a Hollywood diva from the 1950s and 1960s who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at this year's Venice Film Festival, organisers said on Monday. Best known for her starring role in the 1958 psychological thriller, Novak also held notable roles in classics such as Kiss Me, Stupid by Billy Wilder, as well as Picnic and The Man with the Golden Arm. The 92-year-old actor will be given the so-called Golden Lion for "inadvertently becoming a screen legend", the festival's Artistic Director Alberto Barbera said in a statement. "Kim Novak was one of the most beloved icons of an entire era of Hollywood films, from her auspicious debut during the mid-1950s until her premature and voluntary exile from the gilded cage of Los Angeles a short while later," Barbera said, calling her independent and nonconformist. The documentary Kim Novak's Vertigo by Swiss-American film director Alexandre Philippe, made in cooperation with the actor, will be premiered at the festival to accompany the award, organizers said. "I am deeply, deeply touched to receive the prestigious Golden Lion Award from such an enormously respected film festival. To be recognised for my body of work at this time in my life is a dream come true," Novak said in the statement. The 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival will run from August 27 to September 6, 2025. Werner Herzog, the veteran German director of "Fitzcarraldo", will also receive a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement this year. The line-up of films in competition is due to be revealed in July.
