The Grand Budapest Hotel doesn’t actually take place in Budapest; rather, it’s set in Zubrowka, a fictional European country dreamed up by Wes Anderson. If you’d like to know more about the setting, as well as the bygone era between the wars when the film takes place, you’re in luck: Anderson’s team has put together a new vignette, exclusive to Vulture, that conscripts The Grand Budapest Hotel’s Tom Wilkinson for a lecture on Zubrowka and progress that culminates with a very necessary lyric sheet for Zubrowka’s national anthem (“The spirit of Zubrowka will not be abated/Your glory and grandeur will forever be stated! Read More...
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Ask Luis Garza how the La Raza exhibition came to be at The Autry Museum of the American West, and he raises his palms, eyes heavenward:
"Karma," he says. "Fate. Serendipity. The gods have chosen to align us at this moment in time."
Garza, who co-curated the exhibition with Amy Scott, is being a little dramatic, but he's not wrong. The country has finally started paying attention to Latino culture. Planning for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a huge, international group of shows focusing on Latin American culture in the Americas and in Los Angeles, was underway, spearheaded by the powerful Getty Museum. Read More...