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New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: MOVIE REVIEW: Jojo Rabbit

(Photo by Kimberly French courtesy of 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Special Presentation of the 55th Chicago International Film Festival

JOJO RABBIT— 5 STARS

There is a little recurring action, a motif if you will, in Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit that surrounds tying someone else’s shoes. Think for a moment on the intentions behind that little gesture for a moment. Damn near like Christ washing his Apostles’ feet on Good Friday, the act of knotting those troublesome laces is like a bow to lower yourself for someone else. The purpose is to provide soft stability and firm strength for those in need at the place where their feet meet the stalwart steps of their fate. Patience is asked and used to cancel out tedium. The shoe itself doesn’t matter. It could be clown shoes or combat boots, and the paused shared moment of guidance and comforting safety between the helper and the wearer would be the same.

Those beautiful and gracious moments, slowed way down in between all the hustling hilarity in Jojo Rabbit, let you know exactly where the heart of this movie truly lies underneath the scathing satire. It is in the benevolence of helping people rather than warring with them. The titular young boy needs every ounce of such affection and the combat boots of Waititi’s movie are the clown shoes. Gusto meets gravitas in one of the most oddly poetic and beautifully brazen movies you may ever see.

A wonky version of Fox Searchlight’s logo anthem leads to a breakneck German-language rendition of The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (talk about a tone-setter) as we meet Johannes “Jojo” Betzler (the debuting Roman Griffin Davis), a ten-year-old who feels ready to become a man. The ladder in front of him to achieve that belonging sense of mettle is a weekend-long Hitler Youth camp alongside his bespectacled bestie Yorki (scene-stealer Archie Yates). With a Meatballs-level of lampoon, the booze-soaked Captain Klenzendork (Oscar winner Sam Rockwell) and dryly brutal Fräulein Rahm (Rebel Wilson) instruct these girls and boys in the proper indoctrination necessary to fit in.

LESSON #1: BE THE RABBIT — Between the finer points of killing and grenade safety, the training goal is clear. When Jojo won’t snap the neck of a rabbit, he is teased, branded as a fearful coward, and gets sidelined as a gopher and office helper. The symbolism of a rabbit is brave, witty, sneaky, and strong. All of those desirable qualities are present, yet undeveloped in Johannes.

Based on Christine Leunens’ novel “Caging Skies,” all of Jojo Rabbit is presented through this child’s point of view. Molding Jojo’s impressionable moral clay are two presences, one positive and the other toxic. The most well-meaning is his mother Rosie, played Scarlett Johansson. She is a progressive woman challenging the Nazi status quo and secretly hiding a teenage Jewish girl named Elsa (Thomasin Mackenzie of Leave No Trace) in the attic. Rosie’s advice always brims with encouraging alacrity. Between this and the upcoming Marriage Story, seeing Johansson play a mother is nothing short of an emotional epiphany. This is a side of her that we’ve never seen.

The more damaging voice comes from Jojo’s zealous imaginary friend, the führer himself Adolf Hitler. Played with pure camp by writer-director Taika Waititi, his uncouth false god is a cheerleader of cruelty. No joke is off-limits for his apparition of atrocity. Waititi’s maniacal manifestation is an absolute hoot. For Jojo, Hitler is an idol that is difficult to deny or disbelieve.

LESSON #2: WHEN ACTUALITY HITS — Using the word “reality” in this comical setting is leaping too far. Stick with actuality instead and just look at the objects and actions. Knives hurt people. Grenades explode. Soldiers die. War destroys. Germans are fallible. Jews are regular people too. When the wrongs and horrors of war arrive, the movie shifts. Jojo Rabbit swells and elevates beyond farce with this actuality.

LESSON #3: LEARNING EMPATHY — Rosie motivates love and soothes Jojo’s fears and misguided ambition, but the kinship with Mackenzie’s Elsa is what transforms hearts. Her character is never made the victim and that’s a beautiful, confident condition to maintain. Befriending the trapped refugee grows the boy’s sympathies, sheds misconceptions, and cleanses away the dirty propaganda spewing from the invisible Hitler and his very visible followers of the Third Reich. A kid pushes aside fake devotion to see how every life and its innocence matter.

Every wholesome peak and harrowing valley of Jojo Rabbit is crafted with equal parts panache and tenacity. What begins as crass caricature becomes crystalized constitution. One moment you’re yukking it up to some off-color humor and minutes later you’re wondering if there’s dust in your eye. If this is not the eventual winner for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, start a new boycott. The tonal balancing act written by Waititi is astounding and imaginative. The movie’s enriching third act builds one of the best crescendos of recent memory, all ending on a quaint dance that stands in staunch comparison to that opening Beatlemania.

The filmmaking artists around the writer and director follow his tottering pendulum with their own dexterity and excellence. Cinematographer Mihai Mălaimare Jr. (The Master) dabbles with speed and framing akin to a Wes Anderson film only to linger or skew angles and placements just enough to equal all the weird whimsy on display. The same came be said for the soundtrack. Cheeky song inclusions are equaled by composer Michael Giacchino’s orchestral hops between Jojo’s theme of precocious patriotism and a genteel nocturne for Rosie.

LESSON #4: EVERY WAR FILM IS AN ANTI-WAR FILM IN DISGUISE — There is a bigger purpose afoot in Taika Waititi’s movie and it’s this lesson. Yes, there is a premise here which gleefully jokes without boundaries, but the formative goals of pro-peace and anti-hate could not be more clear. To dig deep and evoke optimism out of both present and past anxiety, Waititi borrows this existential bit of poetry written by Pre-Nazi German writer Rainer Maria Rilke to frame his film:

Let everything happen to you

Beauty and terror

Just keep going

No feeling is final

If that citation doesn’t nail the filmmaker’s desire and respectful sentiment through all the wit and irony, nothing will.

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Hyperallergic: Art Movements

Norman Rockwell, “Shuffleton’s Barbershop” (1950). The painting is one of two Rockwell’s owned by the Berkshire Museum (image via wikiart.org)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Subscribe to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter.

According to Le Monde, authorities are investigating three individuals following the abrupt closure of the Amedeo Modigliani exhibition at the Doge’s Palace in Genoa. Twenty-one works, all considered likely forgeries, were confiscated by authorities last week after art critic and collector Carlo Pepi filed a formal complaint with the Carabinieri art fraud unit. Those under investigation include curator Rudy Chiappini, Massimo Vitta Zelman (president of Mondo Mostre Skira, the organizer of the exhibition), and art dealer Joseph Guttmann.

In a joint statement, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) criticized the Berkshire Museum’s decision to auction 40 works of art from its collection, including two paintings by Norman Rockwell. “Actions such as those being proposed by the Berkshire Museum undermine the public’s trust in the mission of nonprofit museums,” the statement reads, “and museums’ ability to collect, teach, study, and preserve works for their communities now and into the future.” The museum — an accredited member of the AAM — plans to deaccession the works to fund a $40m endowment and $20m refurbishment rather than fund future acquisitions — a direct violation of the AAM’s code of ethics.

A number of arts journalists, writers, and cultural figures signed an open letter to Peter Barbey, the billionaire owner of The Village Voice, accusing him of attempting to weaken the paper’s historic union. Barbey’s management team have purportedly sought to eliminate the paper’s diversity and affirmative-action commitments, reduce the amount of leave for new parents, and terminate the union’s ability to negotiate over healthcare. Signatories of the open letter include Hilton Als, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jerry Saltz, Peter Schjeldahl, and Amy Taubin.

A group of local artists and activists published an open letter to the ICA Boston requesting that the museum pull its Dana Schutz exhibition.

Architect Shigeru Ban signed an agreement with the United Nations to design 20,000 new homes for refugees at Kenya’s Kalobeyei Refugee Settlement.

Vogue commissioned Elizabeth Peyton to paint a portrait of Angela Merkel. The work appears as part of a profile on the German Chancellor.

Alan Boyson, “Three Ships” (early 1960s), Hull, England (via Flickr/El Toñio)

According to the Hull Daily Mail, a request has been submitted to review the decision not to include Alan Boyson‘s “Three Ships” (aka the Co-Op Mosaic) to the UK’s national register of historic listed sites. The mosaic, which contains over one million cubes of colored Italian glass, is thought to be the largest of its kind in the country.

Germany’s State Paintings Collection agreed to retain a Renaissance painting from its holdings by purchasing it from the heirs of its Jewish owner. The work was looted by the Nazis and was later acquired by Hermann Goering.

Brothers Irving and Samuel Morano, the owners of Metropolitan Fine Arts and Antiques, pled guilty to illegally selling and offering to sell over $4.5 million in ivory. According to Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, the ivory recovered from the Morano’s store was the largest seizure of illegal elephant ivory in New York State history.

An Andy Warhol painting owned by rock star Alice Cooper was rediscovered in a storage locker where it lay forgotten for over 40 years. Cooper’s ex-girlfriend, Cindy Lang, gave Warhol $2,500 for the work — a red silkscreen of “Little Electric Chair” (1964) — in 1972. The painting, which is unsigned, has never been stretched on a frame.

Author Richard Polsky published an unofficial “addendum” to the Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné. According to an announcement, the addendum will focus “on genuine paintings that, for various reasons, were not included in the official Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné.” The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts ceased to authenticate artworks in 2011 after a number of protracted legal battles with collectors who fought against the foundation’s rulings on the provenance and authenticity of their works.

Cady Noland filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against art dealers Chris D’Amelio and Michael Janssen, collector Wilhelm Schurmann, and Berlin’s KOW Gallery. Noland claims that the group is responsible for a “forgery” of her sculpture “Log Cabin Blank with Screw Eyes and Café Door (Memorial to John Caldwell)” (1990). Noland disowned the work in 2014 after claiming that she was not consulted about its restoration. Her suit describes the work as a “reproduction,” arguing that the restoration process effectively destroyed the work’s original state.

Sydney’s Sirius building, widely considered an outstanding example of Brutalist architecture, was spared from impending demolition after a judge ruled that the former heritage minister Mark Speakman made legal errors when he decided not to include the structure on the State Heritage Register. Campaign group Save Our Sirius have fought against plans to replace the building with a new housing complex for well over a year.

Sirius building, Sydney, Australia (via Flickr/coffee shop soulja)

Paula Pape, the daughter of artist Lygia Pape, filed a lawsuit against LG Electronics, alleging that a cellphone wallpaper created by the company is an “unauthorized derivation” of her mother’s 2003 installation “Ttéia.”

Ken Simons, Tate Liverpool’s art handling manager, will curate a show of work drawn from the museum’s collection prior to his retirement. The exhibition, Ken’s Show: Exploring the Unseen, is slated to open at the museum on April 2, 2018.

Microsoft made MS Paint available as a free app following reports that the program would be discontinued in Windows 10.

The National Museum of American History digitized 80 of Crocket Johnson’s Mathematical paintings.

The British Museum published the first 3D model of the Rosetta Stone.

The British Museum‘s annual accounts revealed that it lost a £750,000 (~$979,939) Cartier ring in 2011.

Transactions

Marcel Sternberger, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, 1952, Mexico City (image date 1952, print date 2017), silver gelatin print, gift of Robert and Malena Puterbaugh in memory of Anne Tucker, recipient of the 2008 Harrison-Hooks Lifetime Achievement Award, Polk Museum of Art

Robert and Malena Puterbaugh donated a Marcel Sternberger photograph of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to the Polk Museum of Art.

Telfair Museums acquired a Nick Cave soundsuit for its permanent collection.

Jack and Sandra Guthman donated 50 photographs by contemporary women photographers to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

The South Street Seaport Museum received a $200,000 Maritime Heritage Grant from the National Park Service. The grant will be used to fund the restoration of the 1930 Tugboat W.O. Decker, the last surviving New York-built wooden tugboat.

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation awarded a $100,000 grant to the Parrish Art Museum [via email announcement].

The Getty Museum announced a major acquisition of drawings, including works by Michelangelo, del Sarto, Parmigianino, Rubens, Goya, and Degas.

The San Antonio Museum of Art acquired 31 photographic portraits from Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s Latino List series.

The Nationalmuseum acquired two Italian scenes by Martinus Rørbye (1803–1848) and Constantin Hansen (1804–1880).

Constantin Hansen, “The Temple of Minerva at the Forum Nervae” (c. 1840) (courtesy Nationalmuseum)

Transitions

Janice Monger was appointed president and CEO of the Staten Island Museum.

Christina Olsen was appointed director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Amy Gilman was appointed director of the Chazen Museum of Art.

Philippe de Montebello, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was appointed director of Acquavella Galleries in New York.

Neil MacGregor extended his contract as director of the Humboldt Forum.

Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi was appointed to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s board of trustees.

Barry Till, the curator of Asian art at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, will retire at the end of September.

Katherine Brinson was appointed curator of contemporary art at the Guggenheim Museum.

Amanda Donnan was appointed curator of the Frye Art Museum.

Rhiannon Paget was appointed curator of Asian art at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

Karen Lautanen was appointed director of strategic initiatives at the Andy Warhol Museum.

Christopher Turner was appointed keeper of design, architecture, and digital (DAD) at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Ashley Clark was appointed senior programmer of cinema at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Laura Paulson was appointed vice chair of Christie’s Americas advisory board.

Accolades

Peter Smeeth, “Lisa Wilkinson AM” (2017), oil on linen, 100 x 150 cm (© the artist, photo by Felicity Jenkins, AGNSW)

The Art Gallery of New South Wales awarded its 2017 Packing Room Prize to Peter Smeeth.

The City of Houston awarded total of $3,463,217 in arts grants for the programming and activities between July 2017 and June 2018.

Merion Estes and Mario Martinez each received the 2017 Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award.

Sam Durant was awarded the Rappaport Prize.

Jade Powers was appointed the Saint Louis Art Museum’s 2017–2018 Romare Bearden Graduate Minority Fellow.

Galit Eilat was appointed the 2017–18 recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism.

Pat Brassington was awarded the inaugural Don Macfarlane Prize.

The recipients of the 2017 Eisner Awards were announced.

Thomas P. Campbell was awarded the Getty Rothschild Fellowship, a scholarship that provides housing and resources to one scholar per year.

Obituaries

David Newell-Smith, a crush of commuters at Charing Cross railway station, London (c. 1965) (courtesy Tadema Gallery, London)

Dina Bangdel (1963–2017), art historian. Specialist in South Asian, Indian, and Himalayan arts.

Keith Bard (1923–2017), linguist and educator. Argued against the use of ‘negro’ in favor of ‘Afro-American.’

Chester Bennington (1976–2017), lead singer of Linkin Park.

Nathan David (unconfirmed��2017), sculptor.

Thomas Fleming (1927–2017), historian.

Sam Glanzman (1924–2017), comic-book artist and writer.

Kenneth Jay Lane (1932–2017), jewelry designer.

Robert Loder (1934–2017), collector, philanthropist, and cofounder of the Triangle Network.

Kitty Lux (1957–2017), musician. Co-founder of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.

Denis Mack Smith (1920–2017), historian of modern Italy.

David Newell-Smith (1937–2017), photographer.

Clancy Sigal (1926–2017), writer and activist. Included on the Hollywood Blacklist.

Dr G Yunupingu (1971–2017), singer and guitarist.

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Hyperallergic: From a Depression-Era Mural to Modern-Day Devices, Charting the Rise of Radio

“The World of Radio” mural (1934), designed by Arthur Gordon Smith, cotton batik; 8 x 16 ft (courtesy Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, gift of Nicholas Meredith Turner in memory of Jessica Dragonette; Photo by Matt Flynn, © Smithsonian Institution)

On display for the first time since 1978, “The World of Radio” mural at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, captures 16 feet of radio history, as seen in 1934. When artist Arthur Gordon Smith created the cotton batik work, the medium of communication was still young: Guglielmo Marconi had patented his wireless telegraphy system 38 years earlier. The mural is dense with skyscrapers, steamships, zeppelins, and allegorical figures, including Richard E. Byrd, who broadcasted from the South Pole; a T-type antenna; and Westinghouse Electric Company’s first radio transmitting station in Pittsburgh. At the center, surrounded by radiating lines of musical notes, a woman in a gown stands on the Earth, preparing to sing into an NBC microphone. She is Jessica Dragonette, a soprano whose performances were heard by millions of Americans in the early days of broadcast, earning her the title “Princess of Song.”

Model 66 Skyscraper Radio (1935), designed by Harold L. Van Doren and John Gordon Rideout, manufactured by Air-King Products Company, Inc. (Brooklyn, New York), compression-molded Plaskon, metal, glass, woven textile, 11 3/4 × 8 7/8 × 7 1/2 in (courtesy Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, promised gift of George R. Kravis II; photo by Matt Flynn, © Smithsonian Institution)

In The World of Radio at the Cooper Hewitt, you can sit on a gallery bench and take in this mural — a gift that once adorned Jessica’s East 57th Street apartment, commissioned by her sister Nadea Dragonette Loftus — while listening to live recordings of her songs. The work is the centerpiece of the show, which explores eight decades of radio technology and design through the museum’s collections. Drawings, consoles, cabinets, and standalone devices demonstrate the development of long-distance communication and entertainment. The small exhibition curated by Kimberly Randall is a complement to the larger The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

When Dragonette debuted on NBC in 1927, some well-heeled listeners may have heard her voice in their specially devoted radio rooms, like the one shown in a 1927 photograph of pianist Adèle Reifenberg’s apartment. As the decades went on, radios became more compact and affordable, and the examples in The World of Radio go up to the 21st century, such as the 2008 Etón FR 600, intended for emergency use or radio access without power. While that need for connection links all the models, there are aesthetic trends that signal different eras: The 1935 Skyscraper Radio, designed by Harold L. van Doren and John Gordon, has compression-molded plastic angular architecture; the 1950s Crosely radios have speakers that reference the shapes of curvy automobile grilles; and the 1961 Tischsuper RT 20, designed by Dieter Rams, has a minimalist style and a boxy shape combining metal, wood, and plastic.

With the mass adoption of the medium came a new form of propaganda power, as represented by 1933 and 1938 versions of the Volksempfänger, or “people’s receiver.” The cheap line of radios, which only tuned into local stations, was launched at the request of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, so that the Third Reich could speak directly to citizens in their homes. On the other side, Dragonette was heavily involved with the American WWII effort, singing for troops and to sell war bonds. Although she mainly retired from the air after her marriage in 1947, the 1934 mural immortalizes her in the moment when she was on top of the broadcast world.

Design for a clock radio drawing (1957), designed by Richard Arbib and Donald Henry for General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York, USA), Office of Richard Arbib, blue, black pastel, brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on vellum, 17 3/4 x 23 3/4 in (courtesy Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Griffith Bailey Coale and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; photo by Matt Flynn, © Smithsonian Institution)

Installation view of The World of Radio at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

Design for tube radio with speaker on top drawing (1955), Office of Anders-Orr & Associates, Inc (Detroit, Michigan) for Crosley Radio Corporation (Cincinnati, Ohio), pastel, brush and gouache, pen and black ink, graphite on green paper, 18 5/8 x 22 ½ in (courtesy Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, museum purchase through the gift of Mrs. Edward C. Post; photo by Matt Flynn, © Smithsonian Institution)

1950s automobile-influenced radios by Crosley (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

Serenader Model 11-115U Radio (1951), manufactured by Crosley Radio Corporation (Cincinnati, Ohio), molded plastic, metal, 5 9/16 x 8 11/16 x 6 5/16 in (courtesy Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, gift of Barbara and Max Pine; photo by Ellen McDermott, © Smithsonian Institution)

Volksempfänger Radio (Germany, 1933), designed by Walter Maria Kersting, molded bakelite, textile (speaker cover) (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

Solarlink FR 600 Radio (2008), designed by Sam Benavidez and Dan Harden of Whipsaw, Inc., manufactured by Etón Corporation (Palo Alto, California), molded PC/ABS plastic, elastomer, metal, 8 x 7 1/2 x 2 1/4 in (courtesy Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, gift of Whipsaw; photo by Ellen McDermott, © Smithsonian Institution)

Installation view of The World of Radio at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

Poster for Miniwatt/Philips Radio (1931), designed by A. M. Cassandre for Philips (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), printed by Alliance Graphique (Paris, France), lithograph on paper, 22 7/16 x 15 3/16 in (courtesy Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, promised gift of George R. Kravis II; photo by Matt Flynn, © Smithsonian Institution)

Installation view of “The World of Radio” mural (1934), designed by Arthur Gordon Smith (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

Detail of of “The World of Radio” mural (1934), designed by Arthur Gordon Smith (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

Detail of “The World of Radio” mural (1934), designed by Arthur Gordon Smith (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

The World of Radio continues at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (2 E 91st Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan) through September 24.

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