Jia Zhangke and the Pingyao Film Festival By Andrew Chan China's preeminent art - house filmmaker looms large, but his brand - new hometown festival spotlights the conundrum of the independent mogul as hero (filmcomment.com)
As Miami's newest hometown ship, Empress of the Seas will offer short four and five - night getaways from Miami to Nassau, The Bahamas; Cozumel and Costa Maya, Mexico; Grand Cayman and Key West, Florida. (breakingtravelnews.com)
For a moment, Kurimanzutto became a kind of international crossroads, filled with artists, museum officials and onetime Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art chief curator and now L.A. art dealer Paul Schimmel, who departed just as his rumored new hometown competitor, Monika Sprüth — the Berlin and London gallerist said to be planning a branch of Sprüth Magers in L.A. — arrived. (observer.com)