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It’s hard to believe there was a time when Dwayne Johnson was known only as “The Rock,” one of the biggest stars in WWE history. But all of that changed in 2001 when he was cast as the Scorpion King in the opening sequence of The Mummy Returns, a sequel to the 1999 blockbuster starring Rachel Weisz ...
Brian Tolle’s Pageant, near the foot of the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, is often characterized as a reinstatement of two sculptures by Daniel Chester French that once were located in the same vicinity. This description is true but considerably incomplete. The symbolism inherent to the three artwor...
Toward the Light: Artists for the Ali Forney Center,” an exhibition at David Zwirner gallery in New York, was only on view at the gallery for four days, but during that short time, it raised $950,000 for the Ali Forney Center, a nonprofit that runs a 24-hour drop-in center for queer youth and offers...
TONO, the time-based art festival, has announced the lineup for its 2026 edition, returning March 6–22 with a slate of new and existing video installations, performance commissions, music events, and screenings across Mexico City and Puebla. Programming will span major institutions including Laborat...
A performance artist from Luxembourg managed to turn a few scrawled lines of washable spray chalk into a night in jail during Art Basel Miami Beach—an outcome he claims was both unexpected and meaningful. Thomas Iser was arrested last week after spray-painting the words “Sorry to disturb, art in pro...
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You probably know what it means to hit the hay, tie the knot or buy a lemon. Maybe you’ve already killed two birds with one stone today, so effortlessly that it was a piece of cake. But to a non-English speaker, using these phrases would probably make you sound crazy … or should I say gone crackers?...
If there’s one thing we love about Kylie Kelce, it’s that she doesn’t hold back. True to the title of her Not Gonna Lie podcast, Kylie will tell it like it is, no matter what. She’s the queen of the fresh take and has given listeners a lot of laughs with her parenting, marriage, and lifestyle conten...
Home ARTnews News December 12, 2025 11:01am Several race cars at the the Salon Privé Concours 2024 at Blenheim Palace. The palace frequently plays hosts to major events in the UK. Getty Images Conservators currently at work restoring paintings in Blenheim Palace said they found the names of 11 peopl...
When Stranger Things landed on Netflix, many Gen Xers felt an immediate jolt of recognition. The bikes, the walkie-talkies, the wood-paneled basements…it all felt like stepping into a time capsule of a bygone analog era. One fan from Vancouver, Jennifer Hill, says the show instantly struck a familia...
“Acts of kindness are actually so radical,” says director of “Wonder” Taibi Magar.Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer Arts & Culture ‘Wonder’ director senses your skepticism But argues ‘radical’ kindness depicted in musical version of bestseller — making world premiere at A.R.T. — might be just ...
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If you were to pick a film as the natural backdrop for a real-life marriage proposal, it probably wouldn’t be 2001’s Shrek, an animated fantasy-comedy featuring Mike Myers as the voice of a green-skinned ogre. But that’s exactly what made it a charming and creative choice for a man named Carter, who...
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond has returned 41 terracotta relief fragments valued around $400,000 to Turkey after an investigation led by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. The works, acquired by the VMFA in the 1970s, were found to hav...
Christie s announced Thursday that it will stage a single-owner sale of works owned by billionaire Bill Koch over two sessions on January 20 and January 21. The Visions of the West sale will feature dozerns of works owned by Koch, with a heavy emphasis on American artists who depicted the American W...
Post-Fair will return to Santa Monica from February 26–28 for its second edition, bringing 30 galleries—and 31 total exhibitors including the project space Untitled Love—back to the Art Deco former post office that helped define the fair’s early identity. Founded by Los Angeles dealer Chris Sharp, t...
Half a century after Jasper Johns first unveiled his crosshatched paintings at Leo Castelli Gallery, the series is returning to center stage. On January 22, 2026, Gagosian, working with Castelli Gallery, will open a landmark survey of these works at its longtime 980 Madison Avenue flagship, where th...
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In 1978, late comedian and actor Richard Pryor appeared as a guest on the Johnny Carson show. As many late-night talk shows do, he stuck around after his interview to occasionally mingle when the next guests was introduced. But instead of dropping in a few funny quips, Pryor spent nearly twenty minu...
Artists who work with technology are typically viewed as nerds sequestered in studios filled with hardware, gadgetry, and complex wiring. But WangShui, an artist who made their name on innovative abstract paintings made with the assistance of AI, positions themself less as a geek than a hermit with ...
2025 was a year full of big and unpredictable moments. It featured a multitude of events that sparked long conversations, with each new event often overshadowing the previous one. It was also a year when Indian culture continued to be exported to the world. Instagram’s 2025 Year-in-Review presents a...
Age is nothing but a number, yet as we get older, some of us feel as if we can’t compete with our younger counterparts. Whether it’s in love, career, or beauty, some worry that age makes them inferior. This can be particularly true in Hollywood. Stars spend their entire careers under a superficial l...
At a Heritage Auctions sale of Hollywood memorabilia in Dallas on Wednesday, a Star Wars painting sold for $3.88 million, breaking the record for an object associated with the series. The work, a painting by illustrator Tom Jung, served as the original half-sheet poster for Star Wars: Episode IV A N...
