ArtEmily SteerIthell Colquhoun, Dance of the Nine Opals , 1942. © Spire Healthcare, © Noise Abatement Society, © Samaritans. Courtesy of Tate.In Ithell Colquhoun’s “Diagrams of Love,” (ca. 1939–42), nude couples are entangled in intimate poses and drenched in sublime colors. In this series of paintings and drawings, she depicts the human body surrounded by radiant energy fields, inspired by alchemical traditions, kabbalah, and tantric imagery. “Diagrams of Love” sums up the British Surrealist artist’s vision of “sex magic,” a source of inspiration throughout her work. The term “sex magic” emerged in the early 20th century and was used by…
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If you’re looking for the Final Jeopardy clue for today, Friday, June 27, you’ll find it posted below. The carousel of new Jeopardy champions continues to around and around, as Thursday’s episode saw substitute teacher Rocco Graziano come away with a runaway victory. We haven’t seen a winner defend their position in a while, but we’ll see if he can stay the course in tonight’s episode against accountant Klay Frappier originally from North Dakota and product marketing manager Michelle Arguelles from California. Here’s the question and answer for Final Jeopardy for 6/27/2025, in addition to the wagers and the winner…
Few sculptures have loomed as large in British culture as Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North (1998). The steel sculpture of an angelic figure, located in Gateshead, England, stands 66 feet tall with a 177-foot wingspan. Visible from the A1 motorway, it is seen by an estimated 33 million people every year. Now, it casts its shadow over the dystopian landscape of 28 Years Later, the third installment of director Danny Boyle’s zombie series, which premiered on June 20th. In the film, Angel of the North is seen in a state of overgrowth and corrosion, evoking the desolation that follows…
The following post contains SPOILERS for the final episode of Squid Game Season 3. Consider this your red light sign to stop if you don’t want to know.Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk promised that the third season of the show would be its last and would conclude the story of Player #456, Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae). And it defintitely did that. (Spoilers, uh, things didn’t work out all that great for him).But given that Squid Game is literally the biggest show in the history of Netflix, and it’s already spawned a reality show competition series, and various Squid Games real-world installations and a metric ton of merchandise,…
In Marvel Comics, the Ironheart character is mentored in the ways of a hero by Tony Stark — only it’s not Stark himself, it’s an AI recreation of Tony Stark after his “death.” (It’s comics; he got better.) The Ironheart TV replaced the Stark AI character from Ironheart comics with an AI modeled after Riri Williams’ late best friend Natalie.But the show has mentioned Tony Stark a lot through its first three episodes — so much that we think there is a big reveal coming, and that there will still be a way to introduce that Tony AI and to plant the seeds for the debut…
Throwaway bottles made of colored glass generally sell for higher prices than clear glass examples. This vibrant turquoise blue bottle with gold paint and white enamel details sold for $300 in March 2025. When researching Victorian mourning practices, I saw a photo of beautiful little glass bottles labeled “tear catchers.” The accompanying information said they were so named because grieving women would weep into them. Since the Victorians elevated mourning to an art form, I readily believed it and was captivated by the thought that the bottles were used to capture sorrow. But when I delved further, I learned that…
An NSFW picture of Lorde has gone viral, stirring debate on social media about why the singer chose to bare it all for a special-edition release of her new album Virgin. The photograph, which appears in the vinyl edition of that LP, shows Lorde donning a pair of see-through pants, without any underwear beneath them. Composed so that there is little to see beyond her waist, the picture echoes the album’s cover, an X-ray of the singer’s pelvis by artist Heji Shin. Artist Talia Chetrit appears to be credited as the photographer of the picture in the liner notes for…
Rare coins were found in a French home. Image Source: Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés via CNN. Auction house Beaussant Lefèvre and Associates recently sold a collection of rare gold coins for $3.48 million, according to CNN. The sale comes after the coins were found behind a painting in the store room of a French home. The coins belonged to Paul Narce, who passed away last year. Narce was an avid coin collector. During his lifetime, he built a collection containing more than 1,000 coins. “Narce, who lived a modest life and didn’t see a lot of the world, spent all…
2025 is racing by. We already covered the best movies of the year so far. So we have to do the flip side: The worst movies of 2025 to date.The good news: After six months of the year I don’t have ten movies bad enough to make a full bottom ten list. The bad news: I’ve got eight. And these are eight movies are pretty pretty pretty pretty bad.They run the gamut from high-profile remakes, to a dark expose of the music world, to another dark expose of the music world featuring a huge star playing himself (and looking very sad), to…
The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) will lay off approximately 30 unionized staff members, according to the Art Newspaper. A spokesperson described the staff reductions in a statement as “the difficult but necessary process of reducing its operating budget to ensure long-term sustainability.” Warren Williams, the president of CUPE 15—the local branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees which represents workers from a number of organizations and institutions in Vancouver, including the museum—said he was “deeply saddened by the employer’s recent decision” in a memo to VAG staff published on June 23. Williams also wrote: “Although the union has not…
