The new Captain America movie might feature a Brave New World, but it’s a rotten one as well.Reviews for the latest Marvel film on the aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes have not been kind overall. As of this writing, Brave New World has earned a cumulative score of 53 from 108 different reviews from film critics.That makes Brave New World just the third “rotten” movie in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe — which contains 35 cinematic entries and counting — following 2021’s Eternals and 2023’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. In other words, all of the MCU’s “rotten” films have been made in the last four years — as good an indicator as any that…
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Christie’s unveils a revolutionary AI art auction featuring works by top digital artists. Discover how AI is transforming the art world.BY KAZEEM ADELEKE, ARTCENTRONIn a groundbreaking development, Christie’s Auction House has announced that it will be hosting the first-ever auction entirely dedicated to Artificial Intelligence (AI) art. This bold initiative, titled Augmented Intelligence, will take place on February 20, 2025. It will showcase over 20 lots spanning a diverse array of artistic mediums. They include painting, sculpture, digital works, and interactive experiences. The sale marks a milestone in the intersection of technology and art, as Christie’s continues to push the…
Hailey Widrig from Art Partners Advisory, based in Paris, France, shares insights regarding art as an investment. In the art world, it’s easy to recognize outstanding works by well-known artists. Who wouldn’t want to look at a Monet or a Picasso? The world’s great museums attract thousands of visitors every day who want to look at the classic pieces, but so many more great works are in private collections. Some collectors loan their work out to galleries, and some have residences and offices to display their pieces, but finding the right work for the right space can be a challenge.…
ArtArtsy EditorialBlack-Owned Galleries Now is an online showcase spotlighting 50+ Black gallerists and the Black artists they champion. This Black History Month, Artsy Editorial spotlights 10 rising artists we’re watching closely at the fair.B. 2000, Austria. Lives and works in London.Family histories, queerness, and identity are among the themes explored by Nigerian Austrian artist Cameron Ugbodu, whose broad artistic practice primarily encompasses painting, photography, and mixed-media wall pieces. Also known by their initials “See you,” Ugbodu draws on their family’s heritage, in Benin City in Nigeria’s Edo State and Austria’s Wachau region. Ugbodu’s works are inspired by their family upbringing,…
Images of the 18th-century Chinese armorial export plate purchased at a Goodwill thrift store for $4.99. It turned out to be worth thousands of dollars.John Carcerano Chicago resident and business owner John Carcerano has been buying and selling antiques on the side for over 30 years. Last October, he had what might be the find of a lifetime at a Goodwill in Evanston, Ill.: a plate he bought for $4.99 turned out to be a rare piece of Chinese export porcelain that could sell for $5,000.Carcerano started frequenting the Goodwill store while recovering from an illness. He would look through…
“There was an idea to bring together a group of remarkable people to see if they could become something more. To see if they could work together when we needed them to. To fight the battles that we never could.”That’s Nick Fury talking about the Avengers. But he could also be talking about the movie The Avengers and the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.After 15 years and dozens of movies, look at what became of this idea; bringing together all these remarkable people and seeing that, yes, they could be something more when they worked together, when their films were interwoven together until…
Searching for a word to best describe Captain America: Brave New World, the one that keeps coming to mind is inconsistent. Some of the hand-to-hand fighting is way above average for a Marvel film; some of the green screen backgrounds and visual effects are about as clunky as the Marvel Cinematic Universe has ever produced. Sometimes characters from elsewhere in the MCU pop up in unexpected places, and the film makes no attempt to explain who they are or what they are doing; at other times the dialogue is so expository and blunt it feels like the verbal equivalent of getting pummeled in the…
Fenton Hobnail Opalescent Uranium Glass Pitcher sold for $74.99 on eBay in 2022. Fenton’s legendary uranium glass lit up collections from the 1930s until production ended in the mid-’40s, yet its neon allure still captivates collectors.WorthPoint Most collectors are familiar with uranium glass—the unmistakable green or yellow glassware that glows an eerie neon yellow to green under UV light. Popular from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, uranium glass gets its signature fluorescence from small amounts of uranium dioxide added to the glass mixture. This formulation is safe for display despite its slight radioactivity. While these pieces might set…
Qatar has announced that it will build a national pavilion in the Venice Biennale’s Giardini, joining 30 other nations with permanent exhibition spaces at the site. This announcement is particularly notable because it has been 30 years since the last national pavilion was built in the Giardini. Moreover, only two other countries have built permanent pavilions in the Giardini in the last 50 years: Australia in 1988 and South Korea in 1995. This new development follows a previous protocol of cooperation signed by Qatar Museums and the municipality of Venice, which aims to enhance ties between Qatar and Italy. “Venice…
The world is not lacking for Die Hard clones. At this point it’s not even lacking for Die Hard clones about the President of the United States. Back in the ’90s Harrison Ford played a heroic president who fights terrorists who hijack his plane in Air Force One. And about a decade ago we got White House Down with Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum and Olympus Has Fallen with Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman — which became an ongoing franchise with movie sequels and TV spinoffs.So I wouldn’t say G20 is a wildly novel idea — but it sure looks like a fun execution. This time Viola Davis is playing…
