Magnets, postcards and cloth bags? All very 2010. Museum managers around the world are racking their brains to come up with new merchandising ideas so that their visitors take something home and at the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam they have come up with something quite permanent and difficult to misplace: tattoos. For a week in June, the Dutch institution reserved a room for several of the best tattoo artists in Amsterdam to make copies of Rembrandt’s sketches on the skin of whoever requested it, with prices ranging from 50 to 250 euros. The initiative was called The Rembrandt of the poor.
ZUCKERBERG VS. MUSK
One of the sillier dystopian things we’ve witnessed in recent weeks is the cage fight proposal that Mark Zuckerberg has thrown at Elon Musk, though it looks like the fight won’t happen because Maya Musk, Elon’s mother, has said That your son doesn’t stick with anyone. The editor and co-founder of the Automatic label, Lucía Barahona, recalled this week that this was already anticipated by one of the books in her catalogue. The novel Bear vs. Jaws, by Chris Bachelder, was originally published in 2001 but already saw this drift coming. On a relatively even playing field (with enough water for a shark but not so deep that a bear can’t get a foothold), who would win, a plantigrade or a shark? In the book, the Norman family makes a pilgrimage to Las Vegas for the ultimate show, Bear vs. Trishark II. It sounds more rational than two billionaires with the power to control communication and elections in almost the entire world getting married in a cage.
‘SWIFTIES’ EN GELSENKIRCHEN
Gelsenkirchen is the twenty-fifth city in Germany in terms of population and the eleventh in the land of North Rhine-Westphalia. And for a few days it is also a meme. Since Taylor Swift announced the dates of her international tour and included, along with Hamburg and Munich (but not Berlin) this medium-sized population that the Germans themselves are describing on Twitter as “a very random city”, jokes about it have multiplied networking. The swifties a) are googling to see how to get there from other parts of Europe and b) they trust that it is easier to get tickets there than in other tougher places like Madrid, Paris or London and therefore they already see themselves walking the summer that It comes through this old mining town on the banks of the Emscher River (data provided by the city’s Wikipedia page, which had undoubtedly never generated so much traffic). In this case, the soccer fans were ahead of the swifties because many already searched in their day to which city Schalke 04 corresponds.
TREQUATRISTA: THE FOOTBALL PLAYER WHO ‘PERFORMS’
The figure of the “cult soccer player” or the “soccer player who reads” is so liked by the press that sometimes little is required of the soccer player in question to enter there -Héctor Bellerín spent months walking around The House of the Spirits in his interviews-. Juan Mata, the Spanish midfielder who now plays for Galatasaray and is known for his social commitment (he tried to drag his teammates from the first divisions in his initiative to donate 1% of their earnings, with mixed success) and for having sensitivities artistic. Mata followed curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, director of the Serpentine Gallery and one of the best-connected people in the art world, on Instagram, and that made Obrist light up. He put him in contact with his friend, the Indo-German artist Tino Seghal and the two have collaborated on an ambitious piece of performance art that will premiere at the Manchester Football Museum as part of the Manchester International Festival, and can be seen in various venues afterwards. galleries. The piece revolves around the figure of the trequatrista, the footballers who watch and distribute the game, such as Zidane or Mata himself.
‘LOS CINCO’ WITH NEONS, MESICOTE ELECTRONICS AND LOW PHOTOGENIC FUNDS?
The BBC could have announced that it has signed up Ari Aster, the Machiavellian Swedish filmmaker of Hereditary and Midsommar, to shoot a series about a group of septuagenarians who have a book club in a Cornish town and compete to see who can make the best scones for them. the snack and it would not have been as surprising as the news, recently confirmed, that Nicolas Winding Refn, the Dane responsible for stylized and violent neo-noirs such as The Neon Demon, Drive and the Pusher trilogy, will be in charge of the adaptation for the chain British public of Enid Blyton’s The Five books. From the outset, the universe of the author of best-selling children’s books that represents the quintessence of the childhood of the British upper-middle classes does not seem very close to that of Winding Refn, but apparently the director has already trained in cozy mysteries directing a couple of chapters of Miss Marple in 2007 in which he took licenses with the character of Agatha Christie.
