American artist Mickalene Thomas has designed a motorsport car for the feminist arts and racing initiative Driven Artists Racing Team Car (DART Car). This women-led initiative will debut with a McLaren Artura GT4 wrapped in Thomas’s original artwork. The car will officially be unveiled on February 18th at the Classic Car Club Manhattan in New York.DART Car was co-founded by entrepreneur Zoë Barry, art advisor Spring McManus, and professional racecar driver Aurora Straus. This initiative aims to simultaneously showcase female achievements in the traditionally male-dominated fields of the arts and motorsports. According to the organization, only 4% of motorsport drivers…
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ArtMaxwell RabbIt’s a strange time for Los Angeles to be hosting an art week. The city is still reeling from the devastation of January’s wildfires, which scorched more than 40,000 acres and displaced over 180,000 people. The destruction affected the entire city, including its art scene: artists, galleries, and institutions alike. In the immediate aftermath, uncertainty loomed over the city’s major cultural events, with the 2025 edition of Frieze Los Angeles in particular facing mounting pressure over whether to proceed. However, on January 17th, Frieze confirmed that the fair would proceed as planned. “After careful consideration and extensive conversations with…
Thaddaeus Ropac has announced its representation of the American artist Jordan Casteel in collaboration with New York gallery Casey Kaplan. Casteel’s first solo show with Thaddaeus Ropac is slated to take place in April at its London location, followed by another exhibition at its Paris gallery next year. The artist was previously represented by MASSIMODECARLO, which she joined in 2021 until she stopped working with the gallery in 2022.Casteel is known for her bold, expressive portraits of people of color, characterized by vibrant colors and detailed brushwork. These large-scale works, often inspired by photographs she takes on the street, take…
The Harry Potter saga is being turned into a TV series for HBO and Max, and it looks like it’s found a major TV star to take on one of the franchise’s signature adult roles.According to reports in various Hollywood trades, John Lithgow is nearing a deal to play Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in HBO’s Harry Potter series.Per Deadline, Lithgow is in “final negotiations” for the role — although HBO gave them this statement when asked for comment:We appreciate that such a high-profile series will draw a lot of rumor and speculation … As we make our way through pre-production, we will only confirm details as…
Francis Lawrence has insisted Constantine 2 is “closer than ever.”The 53-year-old filmmaker has opened up on plans to reunite with Keanu Reeves for a sequel to the 2005 superhero horror movie after years of the project being stuck in limbo.He told Collider: “I will say we are closer than ever to being able to do a sequel, which is a great thing … And [producer Akiva Goldsman], Keanu and I are super, super excited about it.”The original film saw Reeves star as the supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine.There have been plans for a follow-up for years, but Lawrence has…
I was in on the ground floor of The Accountant. The action movie starring Ben Affleck as a brilliant accountant (who is also an incredible action hero) was just my kind of silly. “It’s sort of like John Wick meets a version of Good Will Hunting where Affleck and Matt Damon decided to switch roles,” I wrote in my review of the film from 2016.The Accountant did reasonably well in theaters, but people really appreciated it (yup) on home video and cable television — to the point that we are now, eight years later, getting The Accountant 2 — or, as it’s spelled in the onscreen title, The Accountant…
In 2018, Obsidian Entertainment was acquired by Microsoft and “Avowed” is its first big AAA game under the Xbox Game Studios banner. The studio is best known for creating sprawling RPGs like “Fallout: New Vegas” and “The Outer Worlds,” where players have many choices on how they want to design their main character, approach quests, and tackle the world. “Avowed” very much has those same qualities. It’s a dense fantasy RPG filled with memorable side quests and character companions, along with quite a bit of combat variety that keeps gameplay fresh. “Avowed” takes place in Eora, the same world as…
“Balance is key,” says Mr. Miyagi in the original “Karate Kid,” and it’s an ethos that Netflix (and formerly YouTube Red)’s long-running cult continuation “Cobra Kai” has long struggled to achieve. The fact that a show like this—sprung from a scrappy but novel idea from creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg to flip the legacyquel trend on its head—has managed six entire seasons of television, in a streaming era where most show struggle to get three, is like catching a fly with chopsticks: a borderline miracle. But “Cobra Kai”‘s cult success has also been its grandest challenge, struggling…
Artist Khaled Sabsabi was abruptly dropped as Australia’s 2026 Venice Biennale representative after a high-profile publication raised questions about a past work by him depicting a Hezbollah leader. The announcement was made by Creative Australia, the pavilion’s organizer, after work hours in Australia and did not outright mention the controversy. It described the decision to nix Sabasabi’s pavilion—which was announced just six days ago—as a “unanimous” one and said the decision applied to the exhibition’s “artistic team,” including curator Michael Dagostino. Creative Australia promised a review of the selection process. Related Articles “Creative Australia is an advocate for freedom of…
I’m always discussing and identifying some of the super powers that great artists have in their arsenal of artistic weapons. Ally Morgan is one of those artists who is lucky enough to have multiple superpowers, but in my opinion, first and foremost is her superpower to visually transmit ideas onto a visual artwork in such a way that the idea stops the viewer, mesmerizes the frontal lobe (which in men doesn’t fully develop until their 30s – sorry dudes) and reaches deep into the solar plexus of the mind.That’s a lot of art lingo… Ally says:”I’ve long been captivated by…
