Big, Blue $43.8 million Newman “Zip” Painting On the 8 th of October, a lift technician at a museum in the Netherlands mistakenly threw away a piece of artwork made to look like two empty beer cans. Last year, the infamous artwork consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall was eaten by a hungry visitor to a gallery in Seoul, South Korea. Last month, I went to an art gallery and convulsed my face in disdain at the random blobs of paint that covered the canvases on the high walls. Modern art can be quite the sore spot for us connoisseurs. The painful abstract paintings, novels of base vocabulary, CGI drowned movies and music made on one beats app with auto-tune or nonsense lyrics physically hurt. I know I sound like your grandmother here, but bear with me when I ask you; how do you feel when you see a plain canvas covered entirely in blue paint? What emotions does a blue rectangle evoke? To me, none. But what if I told you that rectangle sold for almost $44 million? You’d probably a
“Working Girl," directed by Mike Nichols and released in 1988, is a rom-com starring Sigourney Weaver, Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford. Following Griffith as Tess, an ambitious young secretary, aspiring to become a successful businesswoman. When her boss Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver) gets injured during a skiing accident, she takes advantage of the opportunity to make headway in her career. Working Girl is one of my favourite movies of all time - no, not just because of the swoon-worthy Harrison Ford and the massive poster of it over my bed - but also because of the rich commentary it provides on the societal structures and cultural norms of the 1980s, many of which remain relevant today. For a 1988 rom-com, Working Girl does a great job of exploring various sociological aspects through the story of Tess McGill, a working-class woman who navigates the corporate world. Shown to be a “commuting career woman” she travels to New York by ferry, wearing sneakers and carryin