Arts Roundup: McQueen Is Dead, Metropolis Lives Edition
Good morning, readers. The influential, iconoclastic designer Alexander McQueen is dead; he likely committed suicide. Honestly, I knew next to nothing about him—mostly that he was a favorite of celebrities—and yet he still seemed ubiquitous to me, and not just because of his surname. Even so: The immense, immense reaction to his death is truly striking.
- Also dead: The inventor of the Frisbee.
- You can stream the restored print of Fritz Lang's Metropolis later today. Film scholars discovered the more than 210-minute version of the silent sci-fi classic in a film vault in Argentina in 2008.
- WaPo's profile of Leigh Conner, the D.C. art dealer who runs Conner Contemporary Art, is worth reading.
- Janelle Monae finally has a new song.
- Did you see our new Snow Day Sessions video series?
- The diamond dealer Laurence Graff—whose Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond is currently showing at the Museum of Natural History—seems to be single-handedly propping up the international art market. Yesterday he bought a Warhol and a Yves Klein. Earlier in the week he bought a Picasso. Next week: He'll have Damien Hirst slaughter and preserve in formaldehyde an Eton-educated chipmunk. You heard it here first.
2:33 pm
Alexander McQueen killed himself because of a suicide, then the ass end of the world of fame come to sympathize his "greatness"? He is a loser. He gets no sympathy from me at all. One who kills himself should have been locked up in a padded cell with a straight jacket.
Donate all his overvalued clothes to charity. Hell, send them to africa and haiti, they can use them more than the overvalued nonsense of his garbage.
Sorry, the guys dead, but he killed himself, remember? So no sympathy, so help those that are barely still alive, rather than praise this jerk. NO ONE should wear ANY of his clothes. Nothing.
1:48 am
loss doss hears an idea then, go f.ck yourself instead
1:49 am
and to the author, youre dispicable