The Summer doldrums are already upon the art world. This is what passes for news:

Artist-turned-film director Sam Taylor-Wood has had a baby girl with her 20-year-old fiance Aaron Johnson, a spokesman for the couple has announced. The 43-year-old gave birth to Wylda Rose in London on Wednesday. A statement issued on the couple’s behalf said they were “happy to announce the birth of their daughter”.

Artist Sam Taylor-Wood has baby girl (BBC News)

Aaron Johnson is the star of Sam Taylor-Woods directorial debut as a commercial filmmaker. He’s also engaged to the director. So when a condescending journalist from TimeOut London meets the couple to discuss the movie, Johnson gives him a talking to:

Johnson even proves sweetly defensive of his fiancée when I mention to him that some critics have been surprised at how ‘straight’ her first film has turned out, considering her background in multi-screen video work, perhaps with memories of Steve McQueen’s ‘Hunger’ or Julian Schnabel’s ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ fresh in the mind. ‘It’s just bullshit,’ he says.Continue Reading