The National Park Service (NPS), a government body overseeing federally protected public grounds, has removed all mention of transgender individuals involved in the Stonewall Uprising, a 1969 New York protest led by queer and trans activists that is said to have jump-started the gay rights movement. On its webpage, NPS has changed its terminology, replacing “LGBTQ+” with “LGB” or “LGBQ,” excluding transgender people from the narrative. The word “queer” has also been removed. The revised page now states: “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal, but the events at the…
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Roman and Williams, the design studio and hospitality group behind Soho’s La Mercerie, will partner with auction house Sotheby’s to open a yet-to-be-named fine dining restaurant in the Breuer Building. In 2023, Sotheby’s announced it would make the storied Brutalist building at 945 Madison Avenue its new headquarters. The building, once the long-time home of the Whitney Museum of American Art, was officially sold to Sotheby’s for $100 million late last year, shortly after the house closed a $1 billion investment deal with the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ. Related Articles La Mercerie, with its open kitchen, elegant design, and impeccable French menu…
If the fact that Marvel is making two new Avengers movies in the years ahead (2026’s Avengers: Doomsday and 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars) didn’t make it clear, the events of Captain America: Brave New World make it a certainty: A new group of Avengers is coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.We’re not going to spoil Brave New World here, but that film’s story strongly hints that we’re going to see these new Avengers sooner rather than later. That means it’s time to do the one thing Marvel fans like more than actually watching Marvel movies: Speculating about what future Marvel movies might look like.Depending on how you qualify…
ComingSoon can exclusively reveal the trailer for Arcades & Love Songs: The Ballad of Walter Day. Arcades & Love Songs: The Ballad of Walter Day is the sequel to The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a 2007 documentary about competitive arcade gaming that was directed by Seth Gordon. The film will be released in United States theaters later this month from Monkey Wrench Films. Check out the exclusive Arcades & Love Songs: The Ballad of Walter Day trailer below (watch more trailers and clips): What is Arcades & Love Songs: The Ballad of Walter Day about? The synopsis…
Mel Bochner, a conceptual artist who incisively explored the slippery relationship between language and art, died on February 12 at 84. His death was announced on Friday by three of his galleries, Fraenkel, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, and Peter Freeman Inc. Bochner was one of the key artists associated with the Conceptualist movement during the 1960s and ’70s. In legendary pieces that hardly looked much like art at all, he offered measurements, numbers, words, and others’ photocopied drawings within galleries. There was often little to admire, and that was intentional—Bochner wanted viewers to think of art as being more than…
The secondary market today is driven by two things: quality and prestige. Often those two things are tied together; after all, the most well respected collectors are usually those with the best collections. When such marquee collectors die, it’s inevitable that Christie’s and Sotheby’s try to outmanuever each other for the estates’ business, as seems to be the case right now over the collection of Barnes and Noble co-founder and former ARTnews Top 200 collector Leonard Riggio, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the negotiations. Riggio, who passed away in August 2024, was a profound collector of the Minimalists and a…
There is a reason the Goonies never say die.After decades of rumors, it looks like The Goonies sequel may actually happen, as Warner Bros. has recruited Potsy Ponciroli to write the screenplay for the film.Per Variety, “Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger and Holly Bario will produce for Amblin Entertainment alongside Chris Columbus, who wrote the original “Goonies” script. Lauren Shuler Donner will executive produce.”At the moment there is no official synopsis for the film, nor is their a director attached.READ MORE: 20 Movie Sequels You Forgot ExistedThe Goonies, released in 1985, was directed by the late Richard Donner and written by Chris Columbus (from…
The Getty Museum has acquired its first artificial intelligence-generated photograph. The work Cristian en el Amor de Calle (2024), by queer Costa Rican photographer Matías Sauter Morera, depicts two young Latino men in blue leather jackets with gold embellishments in a bar or café. There is an intensity in the central figure’s outward gaze. The piece recalls the queer history of pegamachos, or cowboys from the Guanacaste Coast, who became renowned for their secret affairs with young gay men. Given their undercover lifestyle, anonymity is paramount to guarding the pegamachos’ safety. As such, Morera employed AI to create the work and…
Get ready to sink your teeth into one of the best horror films of last year on streaming.(I’m sorry. I’m legally required to include at least one bad pun in every blog post I write.)Robert Eggers’ remake of the classic silent horror film Nosferatu became one of the surprise hits of 2024, grossing over $175 million worldwide. Now, after just under two months in theaters, it’s set to debut on streaming later in February.Eggers’ version of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu — which was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula — stars Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok, a vampire who sets his sights on a…
Bianca Rafaella’s paintings dance and flicker. Recognizable forms such as flowers move into focus amid a sea of pale, ephemeral-seeming marks. These large canvases communicate the British artist’s unique way of seeing: She is partially sighted and experiences nystagmus in her left eye, which creates involuntary movement. “My work shows how someone with very little distance vision can interact with paint through a completely tactile process,” Rafaella said in an interview ahead of “Faint Memories,” her first major solo show, on view through March 15th at Flowers Gallery in London. “My paintings show flowers, but they’re coming out of nowhere,”…
