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New York Post
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Beastie Boys, UMG settle lawsuits against Chili's over ‘Sabotage' ads
Beastie Boys and Universal Music Group settled lawsuits accusing the parent of Chili's of using the legendary rap trio's 1994 song 'Sabotage' without permission in social media ads to promote the restaurant chain. Settlement notices were posted on Wednesday in Manhattan federal court and Dallas federal court, where Beastie Boys and UMG filed their respective cases against Chili's parent Brinker International. Terms were not disclosed. 3 Musicians Adam Horovitz, Mike Diamond and Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys arrive at the 11th Annual Webby Awards at Chipriani Wall Street June 5, 2007 in New York City. Getty Images Advertisement Lawyers for Beastie Boys, UMG and Brinker did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Thursday. 'Sabotage' was a single from Beastie Boys' album 'Ill Communication.' It drew additional notice from its Spike Jonze-directed music video, a parody of 1970s TV police dramas. Beastie Boys objected to a Chili's video that they said included significant portions of 'Sabotage' and echoed the actual 'Sabotage' video. Advertisement 3 Beastie Boys and UMG are accusing Chili's of using their song 'Sabotage' without permission. REUTERS The video included 'three characters wearing obvious 70s-style wigs, fake mustaches, and sunglasses who were intended to evoke the three members of Beastie Boys,' according to the complaint. Beastie Boys said they do not license their intellectual property to third parties to advertise products, and late founding member Adam 'MCA' Yauch forbade such use in his will. The trio's members also included Adam 'Ad-Rock' Horovitz and Michael 'Mike D' Diamond. Advertisement 3 Beastie Boys said they do not license their intellectual property to third parties to advertise products. WireImage Founded in 1981 in New York City, Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2012, less than one month before Yauch died. In June 2014, Beastie Boys won a $1.7 million jury verdict, opens new tab against energy drink maker Monster Beverage over a YouTube video that included a remix of its songs, including 'Sabotage'. Advertisement As of March 26, Dallas-based Brinker owned, operated or franchised 1,573 Chili's and 53 Maggiano's Little Italy restaurants. The cases are Beastie Boys et al v Brinker International Inc, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 24-05221; and UMG Recordings Inc et al v Brinker International Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, No. 24-02535.
Irish Times
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Labour of Love at the Glucksman review: A funny, inventive, irrepressible exhibition about the meaning of care
Labour of Love: Economies of Care in Contemporary Art Glucksman, Cork ★★★★☆ The concept of care has been brought into focus in contemporary art over the past five years by the Covid-19 pandemic. In his short book The Philosophy of Care, from 2022, the philosopher and art critic Boris Groys explained how philosophers through history have accounted for the concept, paying particular attention to Martin Heidegger's existential treatise Being and Time. By understanding care as a cultivating mode of future-oriented engagement with one's world, Groys leads the reader to reassess the 20th century avant-garde, whose activity is reconceived as a 'reflection on and expansion of care'. Though not explicitly referenced, the impact of Groys's philosophy is evident throughout Labour of Love: Economies of Care in Contemporary Art. This group show at the Glucksman, curated by Fiona Kearney and Katie O'Grady, features 12 Irish and international artists across two floors of the architecturally impressive Cork gallery. Liesel Burisch's alluring Minutes of Silence sets the stage. A series of 15 silent vignettes involving protagonists standing still, this video work combines sincerity and tongue-in-cheek playfulness: we are transported from one unlikely venue for silence after another, including a school playground, a busy factory floor and a burlesque changing room. The tension between the utility of the space and the stillness and quiet of its inhabitants is arresting. READ MORE Minutes of Silence: from Liesel Burisch's alluring video work Ill Communication: Dion Kitson's sculpture. Photograph: Tom Bird A similar dynamic is at work in Dion Kitson 's sculpture Ill Communication, featuring a telecoms engineer fixing a utility cabinet of fibre-optic wires. On first inspection I took this sculpture – its back to you, wearing a high-vis vest – to be a real-life technician in the gallery, realising my mistake only when I noticed the absence of movement. [ Irish artist Michael Kane: 'Patrick Kavanagh did nothing else but create art. And that was my ideal' Opens in new window ] Laura Fitzgerald's work on the second floor exerts a strong influence, pulling everyone into its orbit. First is her The Visitors series of unusual comic-like panels, drawn with markers on cartridge paper. These works adopt a retro-video-game aesthetic – reminiscent of concept art for the Nintendo 64 – employing a Trojan-horse strategy to smuggle deeper emotional undertones in the guise of nostalgia. A penetrating sense of melancholy, for instance, pervades works such as But I Do Still Care and More Weather, their waterlogged landscapes impregnated with loneliness and ruin, as spears of rain pierce the walls of farm buildings. Fitzgerald grew up on a mountainous farm in rural Co Kerry, an experience that forms the core of her artistic practice. But she does not rely on one expressive palette; rather, her work displays a great deal of range, evidenced in her second contribution to the Glucksman show, Rural Stress (Landini). A brilliantly inventive and funny installation, this work centres on a metal frame shaped to resemble a life-size tractor. The sculpture is accompanied by an 'audio meditation' component that requires every participant to lie beneath the vehicle, listening to the wellness monologue that warns about the dangers of rural stress, which 'can leave you feeling full and bloated, with your hydraulic lift linkage feeling lethargic ... You might have dark thoughts about your differential lock.' Labour of Love: Economies of Care in Contemporary Art is at the Glucksman , Cork, until Sunday, July 6th
