Barry Blitt’s “Red, White, and Kinda Blue”
For the cover of the May 11 & 18, 2026, special issue, themed around America’s 250th birthday, the cartoonist Barry Blitt portrays George Washington, the country’s first President, caught…
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Peter Strausfeld, the Movie-Poster Master
Some deserving names, though, are still obscure, and that is why an exhibition at Poster House, on West Twenty-third Street, running until April 12th, is to be welcomed with gusto. Here,…
Berlinale Issues Statement Following Political Backlash at Festival, Says Artists Should Not Be ‘Expected to Speak on Every Political Issue’
The Berlin Film Festival has issued a lengthy statement from head Tricia Tuttle over what it describes as a “media storm” that has swept over the festival. The note — sent out late on…
NFL Boss Says Bad Bunny Is ‘One of the Great Artists in the World’ After Powerful ‘ICE Out’ Grammys Speech: ‘He Understood the Platform He Was On’
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reaffirmed his support for Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny, telling reporters at a press conference on Monday that the Puerto Rican superstar proved…
Billie Eilish and More Wear ‘ICE Out’ Pins to Grammys; Kehlani Says ‘F— ICE!’ During Award Win and Tells Artists to ‘Speak Against All the Injustice in the World’
Kehlani accepted the Grammy for best R&B performance (“Folded”) and said “fuck ICE” in her acceptance speech after encouraging other artists “to speak against all the injustice going on in…
‘Don’t worry, I’ve got you’: 3 artists channel the outrage of Minneapolis
Artist Edel Rodriguez published his new print, Minneapolis, just hours after a federal agent shot and killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti on January 24. The print features a pop art image of…
‘The Friend’s House Is Here’ Review: A Touching Tale of Sisterhood Defiantly Celebrates Tehran’s Underground Artists
Artists create not because they’ve been given permission to do so, but simply because they must. This certainty illuminates filmmaking duo Hossein Keshavarz and Maryam Ataei’s Tehran-set…
28 Black, Latine, And Asian Artists Who Made The 2026 Oscar Nominations List
28 Black, Asian, And Latine Oscar Nominees 2026 The 2026 Oscar nominations have officially been announced this morning, and let's just say the Oscars are not looking "so white." From Ryan…
An Artist Seeks Reinvention by Living Off the Grid in “Far West”
Lala Abaddon doesn’t have an address. Her home, made from scratch, sits off a rocky road, deep in the desert mountains of the American West. “I wrote the realtor, and he thought I was…
Hanuman, Krishna, Shivaji Stories Among Collective Artists Network’s Indian HistoryVerse Slate (EXCLUSIVE)
India’s Collective Artists Network has rolled out its inaugural content slate through HistoryVerse, with stories drawing from Indian mythology and history. The outfit has revealed eight…
‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Weapons,’ ‘Wicked: For Good’ and ‘Sinners’ Lead Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Nominations
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” “Sinners,” “Weapons,” “Frankenstein and “Wicked: For Good” led the 13th annual Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Award nominations.…
Confirmed by Nail Artists: 8 OPI Layering Combos That Instantly Tell Me You Have Immaculate Taste
Nail-color compliments are right up there with fragrance-related praise; nothing brightens my day more than when a friend, coworker, or complete stranger begs to know what polish I'm…
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A Year of Listening Beyond the Algorithm
My habit of seeking out new music began with a few strokes of good luck. I grew up in a college town in the early to mid-nineties, during one of the golden eras of college radio. I spent a…
The Edge of Adolescence
Nineties teen counterculture, a trip to Universal Studios, and the modern American dream of perpetual childhood. Source link
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity Taps Amy Baer as President of Film and Television
Artists Equity, the studio founded by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, has hired veteran producer and executive Amy Baer as its president of film and television. Since it launched in 2022,…
Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet’s “Christmas Avenue”
Last year, the Paris-based artist Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet did a residency at Villa Albertine, which gave him the opportunity to experience the bustling energy of the Big Apple. For the cover…
Melon Music Awards (MMA) 2025 Nominees and Winners For Top 10 Artists
Melon Music Awards (MMA) 2025 is only a couple of weeks away from its worldwide live broadcast. Ahead of the event, the organizers shared the nomination list and announced the winners for…
Victoria Beckham Pre-Fall 2026: The Artist’s Way
Fresh from launch of her eponymous Netflix documentary, Victoria Beckham is back at work with a pre-fall collection full of tailoring and draped, folded and languid dresses for day and…
Malika Favre’s and Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley
For the first cover of the December 1, 2025, special centenary issue titled “Our Far-Flung Correspondents,” the artist Malika Favre created “Taking Flight,” the latest adaptation of The…
Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7 million, breaking auction record for female artists
A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction. The painting of Kahlo…
Music Industry Moves: Roc Nation Distribution Unveils Platform Designed for Independent Artists
Roc Nation Distribution has launched a new dashboard designed to empower its independent artists. Roc Nation’s in-house distribution arm describes the platform as its effort to maximize…
Kenton Nelson’s “Early Morning”
For the cover of the November 24, 2025, issue, the artist Kenton Nelson painted a man waiting by a store window. “Walking through the city one early morning, looking for paintings, I was…
Big Loud Records’ Three Chiefs on the Label’s 10th Anniversary, and the Benefits of Artists Like Morgan Wallen, Hardy and Ernest Being Songwriters First
They weren’t always big, or loud, in anything other than aspirational name. There was a certain amount of chutzpah when Seth England, Craig Wiseman and Joey Moi started up the label called…
Jewelry as Statement: Dallas Exhibition Showcases Designs Created by Contemporary Artists
DALLAS — The term “statement jewelry” takes on greater meaning when bodily adornments comment about surveillance, idle chatter, Border Patrol abuse and other themes. These are a few of the…