Legendary Hollywood power player Michael Ovitz, 78, has donated a stunning sculpture by Joel Shapiro to MOMA — and revealed the surprising link he has to the renowned artist Ovitz and his fiancée Tamara Mellon, 57, have recently gifted a nearly 12-foot tall, multi-colored sculpture by Shapiro called ARK to the museum. The dealmaker has … Read more
A top Hollywood agent is stepping down from her leadership roles after coming under fire for calling the Israel-Hamas war a “genocide” on social media. Maha Dakhil, who has worked with big-name celebrities including Tom Cruise, Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman, Ava DuVernay and Anne Hathaway, stepped down from the internal board at Creative Artists Agency … Read more
French luxury goods billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault has reached an agreement for a majority stake in Creative Artists Agency, adding Hollywood’s premiere talent agency to his family empire which spans fashion, wine and contemporary art, parties involved said on Tuesday. Financial details of the deal, in which Artemis will buy the financial stake belonging to private … Read more
When Geneva White, 38, worked at a nonprofit in the Flatiron District several years ago, she focused on after-school career pathways programs in arts education. When the program got defunded, she recognized the strong need for arts programming to support young adults. This sparked her to found and launch Scope of Work in 2016, a … Read more