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
Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer | Courtesy Universal Pictures The biographical film ‘Oppenheimer’ was released this year on July 21 st . The esteemed director Christopher Nolan known for creating intellectually challenging films made his first biopic no different. Starstudded with Cillian Murphy playing the lead and shot on stunning 70mm IMAX film it is a feast for the eyes in this era of CGI and other forms of cinematic degeneration. In the midst of the second world war, the United States of America is desperate for a decisive victory against Nazi Germany. A new weapon is needed to create destruction of a scale and kind unfathomable, and physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer is the man for the job. Born in New York City in 1904 to a non-observant Jewish family. Oppenheimer had a comfortable childhood and excelled at his studies, graduating from Harvard a year early and going on to study at the University of Cambridge which he left in 1926 for the University of Gottingen to study under