ARTS & MEDIAMUSICIANS ON SNAPCHAT
Pictured above, pop/rock quartet 5 Seconds of Summer
(AUS; @wearefivesos) were the most popular group on
Snapchat as of 10 Mar 2017. Meanwhile, UK pop quartet
Little Mix (@littlemix_offic) – seen below – were the most
popular female group on Snapchat as of the same date.
The DJ/producer/radio personality/record label executive
DJ Khaled (USA; @djkhaled305) was the most popular
musician on Snapchat, as of 10 Mar 2017. As of the same
date, Taylor Swift (USA; @taylorswift) was the most
popular female musician on Snapchat.Most visited art gallery
According to the annual
report by the Themed
Entertainment Association
(TEA) and AECOM, the
Louvre in Paris, France,
attracted 8,700,000 visitors
in 2015, the latest year for
which figures are available.
Most expensive painting
sold privately
In Feb 2015, Nafea Faa
Ipoipo (“When Will You
Marry?”, 1892) by Paul
Gauguin (FRA) reportedly
sold privately for around
$300 m (£197 m). In doing
so, it out-sold The Card
Players (1890s) by Paul
Cézanne (FRA), which
had sold in 2011 to Qatar’s
royal family for $250 m
(£158.3 m). In Sep 2015,
US business tycoon Ken
Griffin reportedly paid
$300 m (£197.8 m) for
a painting: Interchange
(1955) by Willem de
Kooning (NLD/USA).
HIGHEST SINGLE-WEEK BOX-OFFICE GROSS ON BROADWAY
Eight performances of Hamilton (USA, 2015) grossed $3,335,430
(£2,701,610) for the week ending 1 Jan 2017, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
in New York City, USA. On 3 May 2016, the show secured the m o s t To ny
Award nominations for a musical (16). It wound up with 11, one less than the
record for most Tony Awards won by a musical, by The Producers in 20 01.
Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda (right) won for Best Score and Best Book.The most expensive
painting sold at auction
is Les femmes d’Alger
(Version O) by Pablo Picasso
(ESP), dated 14 Feb 1955.
It sold for $179.3 m (£116 m),
including a commission
of just over 12%, at an
auction held by Christie’s
in New York City, USA, on
11 May 2015. The buyer bid
by telephone and chose
to remain anonymous.
At the same venue
on the same day,
Swiss sculptor Alberto
Giacometti’s 1947 bronze
work L’homme au doigt
(“Pointing Man”) sold for
$141,285,000 (£91.4 m)- the most expensive
sculpture sold at auction.
The 180 - cm (70.8-in)
statue shows a man – tall
and spindly (Giacometti’s
trademark style) – with
one arm outstretched.
Highest-grossing
music festival
During the weekends of
7–9 Oct and 14–16 Oct
2016, the inaugural Desert
Trip festival, staged at the
Empire Polo Club Grounds
in Indio, California, USA,
grossed $160,112,532
(£131.3 m) from 150,000
ticket sales, according to
Pollstar’s annual report.
Headline acts at the
star-studded festival
included veteran rockers
Neil Young, Paul McCartney,
Bob Dylan, The Who and
The Rolling Stones.Largest audience
for a live videogame
music concert
On 13 Aug 2015, at the
Beijing Exhibition Theatre
in China, Video Games Live
(VGL) performed to 752,109
people, 750,023 of whom
were watching a live stream
via Youku. There were
2,086 people at the concert
itself. This beat VGL’s
own record of 320,000,
who had watched their
Amazon/Twitch-sponsored
event at the San Diego
Comic-Con in 2013.Oldest videogame
music composer
Koichi Sugiyama (JPN,
b. 11 Apr 1931) was aged
85 years 46 days as
of 27 May 2016, when
Dragon Quest Heroes II
was released.First movie based
on an app
As of 21 Feb 2017, The
Angry Birds Movie (USA/
FIN, 2016) had earned a
worldwide box-office take
of $349,334,510 (£280.7 m)
according to The Numbers.LARGEST FINE-ART EXHIBITION DEDICATED
TO ONE VIDEOGAME CHARACTER
The Sonic the Hedgehog 25th Anniversary Collection
at Castle Fine Art in London, UK, on 1–5 Dec 2016 was
the largest fine-art exhibition based on a single gaming
character. Licensed by SEGA and curated by Washington
Green, it featured 25 original, commissioned artworks
of Sonic, created by eight artists, with individual
valuations of up to £40,000 ($49,912).Hamilton is
based on the life of
Alexander Hamilton,
one of the USA’s
Founding Fathers.