A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 million. The toilet, by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana to a wall — went up…
When visitors make their way into Peter Doig’s House of Music show at the Serpentine, they’re confronted with not one but two sound systems. The north gallery sports a vintage Western Electric and Bell Labs system that was used in cinemas in the 1920s and 30s, while Doig’s own set of Klangfilm Euronor speakers (which…
Chinese state media says distributors made ‘prudent’ decision to postpone releases due to audience sentiment. Published On 18 Nov 202518 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Chinese film distributors have suspended the release of two Japanese anime films amid an escalating diplomatic row over Taiwan. Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Super…
“Baby Shark Dance” became a global earworm almost a decade ago, but the viral jingle — which has racked up more than 16 billion views on YouTube — still ranks among the internet’s most recognizable pieces of children’s entertainment. Riding that unprecedented success, creator Pinkfong Co. is debuting on South Korea’s small-cap Kosdaq market on…
YouTuber and social media influencer Jack Doherty was arrested for drug possession and other charges in Miami Beach after he was found disrupting traffic to allegedly film social media content, police said. Miami Beach Police announced that the 22-year-old was taken into custody early Saturday on multiple charges, including possessing amphetamine and marijuana, along with…
The Screen Actors Guild Awards are now called the Actor Awards. The show commonly known as the SAG Awards will officially become the Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA in its next incarnation on March 1, 2026, when Netflix will stream the ceremony as it has since 2023. The Actor statue on display at the 30th…
NEW YORK — When Kristen Wiig steps out of a vintage Rolls-Royce in the opening scene of Season 2 of “Palm Royale,” she’s sporting a tall, yellow, fringed hat, gold platform sandals and sunny bell bottoms, with fabric petals that sway with every determined step. It’s the first clue that the costumes on the female-driven…
Billie Eilish railed against “pathetic” Elon Musk’s multibillionaire status with an expletive-laced message on Thursday. The “Bad Guy” hitmaker, 23, reposted a series of slides via Instagram Stories with ideas on how the 54-year-old could use his money to solve several world issues, from stopping world hunger to saving endangered species. In the singer’s subsequent…
We’re fed up with Disney . “It’s a hated stock,” Jim Cramer said Thursday during the November Monthly Meeting for Club members. “Sometimes, you gotta go. And, I don’t want to fight Disney anymore.” Jim’s comments came as Disney stock sank nearly 8% following mixed quarterly results, with a streaming miss and little else to…
For Cindy Zhong, like many young Chinese women, a relaxing night used to mean curling up with a steamy story about two men in love. Then her favorite authors, and their tales, started disappearing. Fans of the popular Danmei same-sex romance genre, written and read mainly by straight women, say the Chinese government is carrying…