| | | | | | | | | | | | “The day you settle for less is the day you will get less."
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To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | | Ivanka Trump’s Art Collection | | Ivanka Trump’s Art World Friends | Of all the Trumps, Ivanka might the one most notably associated with a love of art. Her and husband Jared Kushner’s art collection was a source of some fascination in the art world even before they became the West Wing’s most talked about couple, and thanks to newly filed disclosure documents we know now that the collection is valued at around $25 million. It’s an assortment that includes notable contemporary artists like Richard Prince, Dan Colen, Nate Lowman and Alex Da Corte. One of the drawbacks of collecting living artists, however, is that they can end up getting together to criticize you once you wind up being a central figure in a highly controversial presidential administration. As it turns out, many of the artists whose work is included in that $25 million collection have been quite vocal about their displeasure over the young Trumps collecting their work. No word on whether Trump brought Lana Del Rey’s new album Lust For Life, but the singer did recently confirm that, yes, she did use her witch powers to place a hex on her father.
| | |  | | | YouTube Prominence, For Better or Worse | | |  | | If you’re not familiar with Jake Paul, ask your nearest teen. The 22-year-old was a breakout star on Vine, expanded his brand on YouTube, and even broke through to grab a co-starring gig on Disney channel show Bizaardevark. His 8.7 million Instagram followers and 7 million YouTube subscribers were propelling him to quite a career. That was until a string of controversies. First audio leaked of Paul verbally abusing an ex-girlfriend (she publicly accused him of emotional abuse and cheating), then a local L.A. news station ran a story on complaints his neighbors lodged about constant notice and distractions coming from his rented West Hollywood mini-mansion. Paul taunted the reporter on air, and even climbed the station’s news van. The New York Times dubbed him a “reality villain for the YouTube generation” after the incident. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Disney decided it might be best to cut ties with him. If matters weren’t worse, a GQ piece profiling Paul and other young social media entertainers dropped and Paul comes across as less than star-like. At one point in the presence of the writer, he pitches an idea for a movie similar to Get Out with the added message of “like, basically, that racism is terrible.” In spiritually related news: Justin Bieber has cancelled all remaining dates of his upcoming Purpose world tour. | | | | | | The Best Directors of the 21st Century | | | | | We are living in the age of movie review aggregators. Seriously, producers behind box office flops like Pirates of the Caribbean 5 and The Mummy are blaming their movie’s fortunes on less-than-stellar scores from Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, while breakout films like Girls Trip and Get Out have thrived thanks to positive reviews. Though, Metacritic, for one, isn’t content to use their algorithms on a movie-by-movie basis, they’ve also used it to tabulate the best directors of the decade so far (to be eligible, directors had to have released four films since 2000). Turns out the best reviewed director of modern times is Alfonso Cuarón of Y Tu Mamá También and Gravity. Alexander Payne, Paul Thomas Anderson and animation mavens Brad Bird and Hayao Miyazaki also make the cut. Though, only three women made the 25-person list: Ava DuVernay, French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve, and Florida-born indie director Kelly Reichardt. Notable names not to make the list: Scorsese, Tarantino, Fincher or the brothers Coen. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fashion-obsessed painter Adrianna Kinal takes on the latest collection (like this, inspired by Marc Jacobs) and style icons on her account. | | | | | | | | | | Matt LeBlanc, 30 (Yes, Matilda is 30 now)
Darren Star, 56 (Man You Can Blame/Thank for Sex and the City)
Geoffrey Zakarian, 58 (Fancy Cooking Man)
Thurston Moore, 59 (Sonic Middle Aged)
Iman, 62 (Goddess on Earth) | | | | | | | |
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