Kirkwood’s Empire Arts Gallery offers exhibition space, a boutique shop and tattoos. (Photo by Jessica Locklar) Empire Arts Gallery takes up space — literally. While nestled among cafés and shops on both sides of Hosea L. Williams Drive in Kirkwood, the gallery sits slightly apart in its own corner. Light streams through the big glass windows, illuminating the art-filled walls within. Inside, the gallery’s three spaces — art gallery, tattoo studio and boutique — brim with bustling conversation. It’s a sunny Friday evening at the gallery, and Jessica Locklar, who serves both as the gallery coordinator and a tattoo artist,…
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On Thursday, a Picasso painting on display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts was splashed with bright pink paint by an environmental activist, in the latest of such attempts to draw attention to the accelerating climate crisis. Footage posted on social media by the climate activist group Last Generation Canada shows the moment the protesters hurled the paint at the portrait, a 1901 work by Pablo Picasso titled L’hetaire. The protester is then seen being escorted out of the gallery by a member of museum security. The Instagram post includes a statement from the protestor, identified by the group…
45 years after The Blues Brothers debuted in theaters, Jake and Elwood are back with their first sequel in decades.This one isn’t a movie; it’s a new graphic novel titled The Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet Jake. Set 10 years after the events of the Blues Brothers movie, it follows a search for the band’s lead singer Jake, the character played in the film by the late John Belushi.According to the press release about the comic, in the new book, “Joliet Jake has disappeared from prison … but has he committed the unthinkable jailbreak, or was he kidnapped? A new cast of characters are now on…
Lebanese Canadian artist Joyce Joumaa and London-based artist Rhea Dillon have been awarded the 2025 Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel. The award winners will receive CHF 30,000 ($36,700), and their works will be donated to European museums MMK Frankfurt and MUDAM Luxembourg.Given out annually in the Statements section of Art Basel’s Swiss fair, the Baloise Art Prize recognizes two emerging artists showing solo presentations. This year’s jury included Karola Kraus, director of mumok Vienna; Bettina Steinbrügge, director of MUDAM; Susanne Pfeffer, director of MMK Frankfurt; Susanne Titz, director of the Museum Abteiberg in Germany; and Swiss art collector Uli…
In a time when everything seems to be a sequel or a prequel or a remake, we’ve gotten used to movie franchises dominating the box office for years, even decades, while their IP is mined until there’s nothing to be mined from it anymore. But not every successful movie turns into a franchise, and even when they do, sometimes it can take a while for us to lay eyes on the next installment.Any movie that sees a moderate amount of success immediately sparks a sequel conversation, but whether or not those sequels actually come out depends on factors no one…
I like being alone at the movies.And not because I don’t have people to go to the movies with. I totally do, I swear. (They’re standing right over there behind you. No, don’t turn around. Just trust me, they’re there.) I understand that most people look at moviegoing as a group activity; something to do with a date or a bunch of friends. But a solitary trip to the movies is one of life’s little pleasures. No endless text threads about when and where to meet, no debating which row to sit in, no negotiating about what snacks to get or how to share them. Just…
“Is that a real Monet?” asks a visitor to Takashi Murakami’s new exhibition at Gagosian New York, “JAPONISME → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige,” on view through July 11. The Japanese artist has subjected the French Impressionist to his characteristic screen-printing technique in Claude Monet’s “Water Lily Pond” And Me, Submerged in the Pond Like Gollum (2025), a slick copy that from a squinting distance might fool you. Conveniently, squinting distance is a popular suggestion for the best way to view Impressionism. Murakami knows his audience; he knows they are always looking at and through screens, and that the lure…
Here you’ll see the Final Jeopardy clue for today, Thursday, June 19. It was a very low-scoring affair, but Jacob Hale came out as yet another new Jeopardy champion from Wednesday’s episode. No one got the Final Jeopardy clue right yesterday about American homes, and Hale only came away with $4,800. He’ll have the opportunity to build on his winnings against writer Bevin Blaber from New York and physician Vivek Upadhyay from New Jersey. Here is the question and answer for Final Jeopardy for 6/19/2025, in addition to the wagers and the winner of the game. Final Jeopardy Question for…
The complete collection of a Victorian pharmacist is going up for auction at The Cotswold Auction Company in the UK. Image source: The Cotswold Auction Company via BBC. One of the most unique apothecary collections is going up for bid later in June. As reported by the BBC, a collector who recreated a Victorian pharmacy in a Gloucestershire townhouse is putting his impressive collection up for grabs with The Cotswold Auction Company. The collection includes a full Victorian pharmacy with artifacts dating back to the 1880s, with a complete relocation of an original pharmacy. “I found [it] in Upwell in…
A universe away from the glitz and shine of the Messeplatz, the gritty and great Basel Social Club (BSC) has once again outmaneuvered the fair fatigue of Art Basel. It’s chaotic—and that’s not a bad thing. For its fourth edition, the rogue nonprofit exhibition platform has taken over a defunct private bank in Grossbasel, across the Rhine from Art Basel and around the corner from the Kunstmuseum. Here, more than 100 rooms have been reimagined as one living, breathing artwork. From blood banks to beauty salons, the former vaults now trade in irony and intimacy, blurring the line between luxury…
