The Loewe Foundation has announced the shortlist for its 2025 Craft Prize, selecting 30 artists from 18 countries. These finalists will present their works in an exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid from May 30th to June 29th. The prize winner will be chosen on May 29th and announced during the opening ceremony for the group exhibition. The recipient will receive a €50,000 ($51,000) award. The winner is selected by a 13-person jury composed of leading names in design, architecture, journalism, and museum curatorship. “Year on year, it gives me such pleasure to see the Loewe Foundation Craft…
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A wealth of Neoclassicist art has joined the holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago via collectors Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz, who have gifted the museum around 2,250 works of French art made between the 16th and 19th centuries. The gift comes after held two shows devoted to the Horvitzes’ collection, one focused on Neoclassicist paintings, the other on drawings. Both exhibitions were staged last year. Jeffrey, a private investor, appeared solo on the annual ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list between 1994 and 1999. Carol is currently a trustee at the Art Institute of Chicago. The majority of the artworks…
Warner Bros. has released the first Mortal Kombat 2 poster and official logo for New Line Cinema’s forthcoming action fantasy sequel, providing fans with a first look at The Boys star Karl Urban as Johnny Cage. The film is scheduled to arrive in theaters on October 24, 2025. It will be debuting in the same month as other high-profile movies like the Michael Jackson biopic, Tron: Ares, and The Black Phone 2. Who is involved in Mortal Kombat 2? Based on the hit video game series, the sequel is directed by Australian filmmaker Simon McQuoid from a screenplay written by…
The Super Bowl trailer for Marvel’s Thunderbolts* gave us our first look at the movie’s big villain, The Void, and with it also gave us a lot of clues about the plot of the movie: Who the Thunderbolts are, who assembles this team, why they are put together now, and what their mission is going to be. (We still don’t know why the title has an asterisk though.)In our latest Marvel Cinematic Universe breakdown video, we’ll look at the Thunderbolts* trailer, and point out all the little details, Easter eggs, and secrets you might have missed. We’ll also talk about what this trailer tells us…
Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld has cut ties with Marvel after expressing unhappiness with his treatment at the premiere of Deadpool and Wolverine.The 57-year-old comic book writer artist is the man behind the wise-cracking hero and has had a lengthy relationship with Marvel but bemoaned how he felt sidelined at the premiere of Deadpool and Wolverine, the first film in the franchise to be released since Disney acquired Fox and the character was integrated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Liefeld claimed that he felt ignored by Disney bosses, including Marvel chief Kevin Feige, at the event last July and was disappointed to…
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was recently barred from entering Switzerland after he was unable to produce a visitor’s visa. According to an Instagram post by Ai, he spent the evening of February 10 on a bench at the Zurich airport. Ai’s Instagram post was captioned with: “‘This is Switzerland, not Portugal’ they told me. I am sleeping on a bench with a blanket tonight, waiting to be deported next morning at 6:50AM.” The Instagram post included several photos and videos of the airport, his passport, and documents, as well as the notice of refusal of entry at the border. The…
Conservators at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London have uncovered a previously hidden image of a mystery woman beneath the surface of Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto (1901). This discovery was made using X-ray and infrared imaging of the painting, which dates to Picasso’s Blue Period, ahead of its inclusion in the upcoming exhibition “Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection.” The exhibition opens at the Courtauld Gallery on February 14th.The analysis, conducted with the Oskar Reinhart Collection, revealed the figure of an unidentified woman with a chignon hairstyle in the upper right-hand corner…
Can we go ahead and say 2025 is the year of the food recall?It kind of seems like it’s going that way. With major food recalls already being issued, another one has just been added to the list.According to Forbes, this latest recall has been issued by FGF Brands, LLC, and includes donuts sold under multiple brand names, including Dunkin’ and Walmart private labels.The donuts that fall under the recall could be contaminated with listeria.According to Mayoclinic.com, listeria can be very dangerous to those with a weakened immune system especially. In some cases, a listeria infection can lead to life-threatening complications.Here…
While the first season of HBO’s award-winning “The White Lotus” offered a fresh spin on the “Upstairs, Downstairs” or “Gosford Park” structure of storytelling between the haves and the have-nots who struggle to keep them happy, subsequent seasons have proven to be arguably even more ambitious, digging deeper into character-driven storytelling than any other show on television. Writer/director Mike White understands the way people lie to themselves, and how the distractions of day-to-day life can keep issues at bay that come roaring to the surface when a luxurious vacation forces “relaxation.” White’s ear for dialogue and gift with character depth—everyone…
As disorienting as it is delightful, Matthew Rankin’s “Universal Language” takes its avant-garde filmmaker’s irreverent approach to history—previously on display in “The Twentieth Century,” his ersatz reinterpretation of former Canadian prime minister William Mackenzie King’s rise to power—in feverishly fresh, surprising directions. Imagining a surreal interzone between Tehran and Winnipeg where the official languages are Farsi and French, Tim Hortons coffee houses sell Iranian delicacies, and wild turkeys leave tracks in the snow, Rankin’s latest (in U.S. theaters Feb. 14, via Oscilloscope Laboratories) approaches this setting as a bleakly absurdist playground where various characters collide and intersect. Discovering a 500-riels…
