Günther Uecker, an iconic artist of the postwar era who redefined abstraction not with paint but with nails hammed into his canvases, died on Tuesday at 95. His passing was announced by his New York gallery, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, which did not specify a cause of death. The German press agency dpa reported that he had been hospitalized in Düsseldorf. Uecker was one of the main artists associated with ZERO, an avant-garde group that was founded in 1957 by Otto Piene and Heinz Mack. Uecker joined later on, in 1961, though he had already been exhibiting with the movement, which…
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A new edition of Women, the portrait collection by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz, will be released by Phaidon this November as a two-volume set. The publication features the original 1999 book alongside a new companion volume, which includes more than 100 portraits created between 2000 and the present. The 2025 edition includes new portraits of women activists, artists, authors, musicians, and world leaders. Among them is Rihanna, pictured reclining at the Ritz Paris during her pregnancy in an image originally shot for Vogue in 2022. Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is pictured in a Maryland library, while folk singer Joan…
Up ahead is the Final Jeopardy clue for today, Tuesday, June 10. In yesterday’s match on Monday, writer Jackie Rogoff had an impressive runaway win, becoming the new Jeopardy champion. Perhaps she will have better luck with the Final Jeopardy clue this time around. Tonight’s game will feature two new challengers, editor John Reiss from Hawaii and attorney Matt Massie originally from West Virginia. Here is the question and answer for Final Jeopardy for 6/10/2025, plus the wagers and the winner of the game. Final Jeopardy Question for June 10 The Final Jeopardy question for June 10, 2025 is in…
When CNN proclaims that there is “a toy too popular to sell,” you can’t help but sit up and take notice. The toy in question is Labubu, a line of plush critters with devilish, teeth-bearing grins that are causing riots at locations across the globe. The toyline’s distributor, Pop Mart, is pulling the toys off store shelves and only selling them online to avoid what CNN scribe Olivia Kemp cited as “chaotic scenes of queueing, crowd surges and reported fights.” “Due to the increasing demand for our beloved Labubus, we’ve seen a significant rise in customer turnout on restock days…
The blood-stained gloves that Lincoln was wearing the night he was assassinated recently sold for over $1.5M. The cuff button Lincoln was wearing sold for $445K. Historians, collectors, and fans of all things Abraham Lincoln were abuzz recently with the results of an auction of several artifacts from Lincoln’s life. The collection’s most talked-about item is a pair of leather gloves, stained with blood, that the President carried that evening. Of course, an item of that nature would garner most of the attention, but this auction was about more than just bloody gloves. It was one more chapter in a…
Facebook Marketplace is typically used as a hub for thrifters to discover hidden gems that are now up for resale. But in Syria, some Facebook Marketplace users may find some unexpected items alongside old furniture and knickknacks: artifacts that may have been looted. Thieves are reportedly robbing graves that are more than 2,000 years old in Palmyra, among other cities, and listing the funerary gold and artifacts they take on Facebook. Located in the Fertile Crescent, where some of the first known civilizations began, Palmyra was an ancient city along the Silk Road—a trading route at the crossroads of Europe…
So far just one person has been credited as both the writer and the director Pixar’s Incredibles movies: Brad Bird. And when Pixar first announced they were making Incredibles 3, they also revealed Bird, who’s also known as the director of The Iron Giant, Ratatouille, and Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, would return to work on the new sequel.But Bird will not direct the project. Instead, Peter Sohn, the director of Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur and Elemental will take over for Bird as director of the third Incredibles movie. Bird remains involved as writer and producer.Sohn’s affiliation with Bird dates all the way back to The Iron Giant, and he’s been involved with Pixar…
Hotels and art fairs may seem like an unlikely pairing, but the two have long rubbed shoulders: The first edition of The Armory Show was held at the Gramercy Park Hotel in 1994, and every February since 2018, Felix Art Fair has occupied the swanky Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel of Los Angeles. Among the most legendary of all New York hotels, Hotel Chelsea, hosted the first edition of the one-day-only Chelsea Art Fair last November, while in London, newcomer Minor Attractions took over the swanky Mandrake last October. This week, newcomer Arrival Art Fair will take the concept into the mountains…
Wes Anderson’s latest caper stars a corrupt mogul, a devout nun, and, unexpectedly, a real Renoir painting. In The Phoenician Scheme, which premiered in the U.S. on May 30th, the Oscar-winning director filled a fictional palazzo with genuine masterworks of European art.The film centers on Zsa-Zsa Korda, played by Benicio Del Toro, a shady entrepreneur attempting to fund a Mediterranean waterway project while evading government agents and hired assassins, and his estranged religious daughter, Liesl, played by Mia Threapleton. Usually, films use high-quality copies of artworks on film sets. But instead, Anderson enlisted Jasper Sharp, a Vienna-based curator who has…
When I was a kid, I loved going to the movies. As a dad, going to kids movies is way less fun than coming home from kids movies.Oh sure, I enjoy taking my two daughters to the theater. As you might imagine, they are genetically predisposed to enjoy the experience. But the real highlight for me these days is the conversation on the subway ride home, where I get to pick their brains about whatever we saw and find out what they liked and what went over their heads. I record the chats and then publish the results; they’re inevitably far more…
