In a move that reflects a significant expansion of its capabilities and talent, multi-award-winning creative company The-Artery has opened the doors to a new space in Manhattan’s thriving Chelsea neighborhood.
Founded and led by chief creative officer Vico Sharabani, The-Artery now has a spacious new environment in which to apply its expertise in providing collaborative solutions to creative production and postproduction challenges. This includes leveraging its expertise in visual effects, post supervision, offline editorial, live action, and experience design and development across multiple platforms.
According to Sharabani, the new space is not only a response to the studio’s growth, but allows The-Artery to foster better collaboration and reinforce its relationships with clients and creative partners. “As a creative studio, we recognize how important it is for our artists, producers and clients to be working in a space that is comfortable and supportive of our creative process,” he said. “The extraordinary layout of this new space, the size, the lighting and even our location, allows us to provide our clients with key capabilities and plays an important part in promoting our mission moving forward.”
The-Artery has a seasoned and talented team of artists and creative collaborators, including recent addition, editor and former Mad River Post owner Michael Elliot, The creative company has showcased its singular approach and ingenuity on a variety of high-profile efforts in recent years. These include 2018’s groundbreaking VR-enabled production for Mercedez-Benz, its work on Under Armour’s “Rush” campaign and Beyonce’s game-changing Coachella documentary, Homecoming. The-Artery has also brought its talents to feature films like Netflix’s acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, Wes Anderson’s Oscar-winning Grand Budapest Hotel and box-office hit Ocean’s 8.
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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