It takes a lot of actors to populate an entire galaxy, and sometimes it’s really reassuring to see a familiar face in an alien world populated by creatures whose heads look like burnt taffy. Plus, after nearly 50 years of films, television shows, comic books, and an endless collection of merchandise, an entire generation of actors (not to mention, y’know, half the population of Earth) have grown up loving Star Wars and wanting to be a part of it in some way.The result: A slew of famous faces have popped up in Star Wars through the years; some in early blink-and-you’ll-miss-them supporting roles prior to their…
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CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL Announces Full Program Lineup, Special Guests and Recipients of 2025 Emerging Critics Grant 12th Annual Festival Opens with THE BALTIMORONS, with filmmaker Jay Duplass attending; Angus MacLachlan’s A LITTLE PRAYER to close, featuring stars David Strathairn and Jane Levy in person; centerpiece is A24’s SORRY, BABY, filmmaker and star Eva Victor to attend (Chicago, IL) — The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA), the Chicago-area print, online and broadcast critics group that celebrates the art of film and film criticism, today announces the complete lineup, schedule and special guests expected for the twelfth annual Chicago Critics Film…
ArtCatherine BennettTracey Emin, installation view of “Sex and Solitude” at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2025. Photo by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2025. Courtesy of Palazzo Strozzi.2025 has got off to a strong start for museum exhibitions internationally. “Paris Noir” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris has brought the influence of Black artists in the French capital into the mainstream. Anselm Kiefer is juxtaposed with Van Gogh in an unprecedented exhibition at both the Stedelijk Museum and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and Leigh Bowery has taken over London’s Tate Modern with his boundary-pushing installations.…
Taymour Grahne Projects, the London-based gallery known for its roster of contemporary talent, has announced plans to open a flagship location in Dubai. The gallery will celebrate the launch with a solo exhibition by American artist Gail Spaien, titled “Arranging Flowers.” The inaugural exhibition will open on September 18th and will remain on view until November 6th.Founded in New York in 2013, Taymour Grahne Projects has operated spaces in New York and London in the past, but more recently, the gallery has garnered attention for its sharp nomadic programming approach. The gallery will span a 2,000-square-foot space in Dubai’s Alserkal…
Nighthawk Interactive and Dlala Studios announced Disney Illusion Island is finally releasing for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam, Microsoft Store, and GOG. The best part is players won’t have to wait very long to get their hands on the 2D platformer. When is the Disney Illusion Island PS5, Xbox, and PC release date? Disney Illusion Island arrives on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC in North America on May 30. Players in Europe will have to wait just a tad longer as it releases on June 27 in other territories. Players can preorder a physical edition of…
Alex Garland’s worlds, even those in the more fantastical realms of “Ex Machina,” “Dredd,” and “Annihilation,” find as many ways as possible to sell their fantasies within a realm of muted, grounded realism. And so it goes that his latest project, “Warfare,” takes that zeal for verisimilitude to its grandest degree yet: Recreating a real life incident during the Iraq War in 2006, dramatizing the events in real time to the best of its participants’ recollection. (Text at the film’s opening reads: “This film is recalled from their memories.”) The incident itself, a terrifying operation in which a group of…
Robert Pattinson is reportedly being considered for a villain role in Dune: Messiah.The upcoming sci-fi blockbuster will be director Denis Villeneuve’s third installment in his Dune trilogy, and Deadline has now reported Pattinson, 38, is being eyed to play the antagonist Scytale.The villain is a Face Dancer and secret agent of the Bene Tleilax, who plays a central role in Dune: Messiah as part of a conspiracy to overthrow Paul Atreides by using deception, genetic manipulation, and political intrigue.While Warner Bros. and Legendary are supposedly interested in the Mickey 17 star, Deadline reports no formal offer has been presented to…
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION has joined new legal challenges against President Trump’s efforts to dismantle federal library and museum services, reports the New York Times. The library association, along with a union representing over 42,000 US cultural workers, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeking a preliminary injunction against the current administration’s dismissal of the majority of staff at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, as well as the cancellation…
ArtMaxwell RabbIn this monthly roundup, we spotlight five stellar exhibitions at small and rising galleries.Webber, Los AngelesThrough May 24Acclaimed Greek director and photographer Yorgos Lanthimos always kept his film camera handy during the production of his last two films: Kinds of Kindness (2024) and the Oscar-winning Poor Things (2023). Now, the images he took behind the scenes on these shoots are showcased in a solo exhibition at Webber in Los Angeles.Drawn from Lanthimos’s two recent books, i shall sing these songs beautifully (2024) and Dear God, the Parthenon is Still Broken (2024), these photographs were taken on-site at filming locations…
A climate activist who smeared paint on the glass protecting an Edgar Degas sculpture in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has been found guilty by a federal jury of conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States. The US Department of Justice announced today that Timothy Martin, 55, of Raleigh, North Carolina, was also found guilty of injury to a National Gallery of Art exhibit, concerning the April 2023 incident in which he and a fellow activist, with the environmentalist group Declare Emergency, targeted the case and base of Edgar Degas’s Little Dancer, Age Fourteen, one of…
