Amy Sherald has canceled her forthcoming solo exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, citing concerns over censorship. The artist, who is best known for her 2018 portrait of Michelle Obama, said she learned that her 2024 painting Trans Forming Liberty—a depiction of a transgender woman posing as the Statue of Liberty—might be removed to avoid provoking President Donald Trump. The show, “American Sublime,” was slated to open at the National Portrait Gallery on September 19th and would have marked the institution’s first solo presentation of a Black contemporary artist. Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the…
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The 1990s’ most beloved, furry on-screen basketball star is back again! (No, I’m not talking about Bugs Bunny; they already tried that four years ago with Space Jam: A New Legacy and … yikes.)On Thursday July 24, entertainment studio Cineverse announced the forthcoming sixth film in the core Air Bud movie franchise (and 15th film overall in the Air Bud and Air Buddies combined series) will hit theaters in the summer of 2026.Air Bud Returns will see the shootin’, hoopin’ Golden Retriever bound back onto the basketball court next year.Produced by Robert Vince, who produced Disney’s 1997 animal sports comedy as well as…
Painter Amy Sherald has canceled her upcoming solo exhibition, titled “American Sublime,” at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery after the museum considered removing her painting of a Black transgender Statue of Liberty, The New York Times reported today. The show was slated to open in September. “I entered into this collaboration in good faith, believing that the institution shared a commitment to presenting work that reflects the full, complex truth of American life,” the artist wrote to Lonnie G. Bunch III, the secretary of the Smithsonian, who runs the Portrait Gallery. “Unfortunately, it has become clear that the conditions no…
Adriane V. Jefferson brings a wealth of ideas, years of experience, and a collaborative spirit to the role. (Photo provided by the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs) For the first time in the 21st century, the city of Atlanta has a new executive director of the Office of Cultural Affairs: Adriane V. Jefferson. She succeeds Camille Love, who was appointed OCA director by Mayor Bill Campbell in the 1990s. The typical tenure of a city’s cultural affairs director is eight to 10 years, often coinciding with political administrations, which makes this passing of the baton long overdue. Most recently, Jefferson…
Early fans with brass blades are among the most valuable, and they are also rare. This Emerson wall-mount fan has both, contributing to its selling price of $5,658 in 2022. Before electricity, manual fanning was the only way to create a cooling airflow during sweltering summer days. Whether you did it yourself with a stylish hand fan or commanded someone to swish giant palm leaves over you, it was a weary way to get some relief. However, as electricity became available across North America in the 1880s, and before central air conditioning became the norm, creating a nice breeze was…
Marvel Animation‘s four-part animated anthology series, Eyes of Wakanda, will no longer premiere on Disney+ on August 27, 2025. Eyes of Wakanda has had a few release dates since Marvel officially announced the Black Panther prequel series in December 2023. A 2024 release window was first reported, before Marvel unveiled an August 6, 2025 release date, which was then pushed back to three weeks to August 27, 2025. However, with August fast approaching, Marvel has made one final release date change. What is the new Eyes of Wakanda release date? Entertainment Weekly has reported that Eyes of Wakanda will now…
See, if it were me I would not return to Freddy’s for a second night, much less five nights, much less five more nights. But that wouldn’t make much of a sequel, I guess.And there had to be a Five Nights at Freddy’s sequel. The first movie made so much money — $290 million worldwide — that Universal was not going to stop the franchise, based on the equally popular video games, there. It was going to continue for as many spans of five nights at Freddy’s as the market would bear.And so it is time for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, which, like the original, is directed…
The “Final Destination” series had been dormant for fourteen years when its home studio, Warner Bros. Discovery, decided to bring it back with “Final Destination Bloodlines,” one of the most profitable films of the year. To oversee the re-launch, they chose the filmmaking team of Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky. They delivered a deliciously wicked contraption of a movie in which a young woman named Stefani Reyes (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) tries to get to the bottom of her recurring dream about her maternal grandparents, Iris and Paul Campbell, perishing in the collapse of the Skyview restaurant tower, and embarks on…
In the finale of Volume 1 of the second and last season of “The Sandman,” Dream (Tom Sturridge) made the tragic decision to grant his son Orpheus (Ruairi O’Connor) the ultimate peace of death, spilling family blood for the first time in centuries. Although it was a gift passed down from father to son, this act will bring forth the wrath of foes not yet known, who threaten to lay waste to Dream and the realm of The Dreaming. The second half of this season begins with a televised announcement from the Pope, declaring a historic shift: Women are now…
Our next dispatch from the 2025 Fantasia International Film Festival turns its eyes on the plight of young women coming of age—amid a variety of genre turmoils, from ecological apocalypses to parasocial obsession to the thorny complications of nascent transfemininity. First, of course, we must talk about “The Serpent’s Skin,” the latest “transgender film” (as the credits proudly blare) from Australian trans wunderkind Alice Maio Mackay, who at the tender age of twenty has already directed six feature films. (These include “T Blockers” and “Carnage for Christmas,” both of which have been featured at previous Fantasias). Mackay’s works have all…
