Synthetic hair and a found frame compose “Takin’ in strides,” (2022) by Nneka Kai. (Photos courtesy of Day & Night Projects) The Signal is the Sign (2025) by Nneka Kai. (Photo courtesy of Day & Night Projects) Emerging from discarded cans, strung across a salvaged frame and coiling to make a vessel — hair, specifically Black hair, is the defining medium of Nneka Kai’s solo exhibition On Unstable Grounds at Day & Night Projects. The exhibition begins with The Signal is the Sign (2025). A nearly 6-foot sculpture composed of braided hair coiled to create a sort of beehive shape,…
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Adrien Brody has received due attention for his acting abilities: his Oscar-winning performance in last year’s film The Brutalist is the kind of work most actors would be lucky to pull off once in their lifetime. Last week, however, he started receiving undue attention for the hideous art he debuted in New York at Eden Gallery, which—based on its press coverage, anyway—is one of the most talked-about exhibitions of the summer. Brody, the artist, has now received a 1,300-word profile in the New York Times that positioned him as an artist worthy of consideration. Cultured praised him this week for…
While the Strawberry Shortcake character began on greeting cards in the 1970s, the dolls introduced in the 1980s quickly found their way to bedding, with this brand-new sheet set selling for nearly $300. Recently, a parent I know was looking to replace a blanket from her son’s childhood. Growing up in the 90s, her son was a huge fan of Toy Story. On his bed for years was a cuddly throw blanket featuring Buzz, Woody, and the gang from Andy’s room. She had thrown the blanket out or lost it years ago, but her son was moving into his first…
The latest place where no one can hear you scream: Streaming television.After decades as one of the premiere horror movie franchises, Alien comes to TV as a new series on Hulu later this summer. Alien: Earth’s premise is fairly self-explanatory from the title: The infamous critters from Alien let loose on our planet.According to the first Alien: Earth trailer, the xenomorphs arrive here in the year 2120, so thankfully you still have some time to fortify your apartment’s security system before you have to worry about any sort of chestbursting home invasions. The Alien TV series was created by Noah Hawley, whose past credits include the TV version of Fargo and…
Google “Ballerina movie reshoots” and you get all kinds of articles about the protracted production of the first John Wick spinoff feature. This much is undisputed: In 2017, Lionsgate acquired a spec script about a ballerina who moonlights as an assassin with designs on repurposing it as a John Wick movie. They offered a glimpse of these killer dancers in John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, and then put the spinoff into production in late 2022.But John Wick: Chapter 3 came out in 2019, and John Wick: Chapter 4 followed in 2023. Meanwhile, Ballerina languished in an editing room somewhere. It finally arrives in theaters this summer, almost three years after its initial shoot,…
Mike Flanagan is no stranger to telling stories about death. However, his latest film is something quite different in how it dances with existential questions about the boundless beauty of life, the terrible agony of loss, and, ultimately, what it all means as our lives inevitably come to a close. In “The Life of Chuck” (in theaters June 6), the titular Charles “Chuck” Krantz (played at various ages by Tom Hiddleston, Jacob Tremblay, Benjamin Pajak, and, briefly, Flanagan’s own son Cody) is an ordinary man who, like all of us, contains an entire universe. Taking us back in time through…
“Why is it the Black man always dies in the first 10 pages?” Luther Stickell, played by Ving Rhames, was supposed to die in the first “Mission: Impossible” movie. Brian De Palma’s 1995 film did away with almost all of the TV show’s characters and radically changed the one who remained, all to leave Tom Cruise’s new recruit to the IMF, Ethan Hunt, as the last one standing. Rhames, fresh off the success of “Pulp Fiction,” was going to be another casualty. But, as he explained in a 2025 interview with Screen Rant, that changed when he asked Cruise that…
General Hospital’s June 4 episode left fans wondering how Ric even knew about Sasha’s secret. During the intense custody battle between Willow and Michael, Ric dragged Sasha to the witness stand and forced her to admit something she had kept hidden for years: that Michael is the father of her child. How did Ric know about Sasha and Michael’s secret on General Hospital? Ric, knowing about Sasha’s secret in General Hospital, points directly to Nina Reeves. In the May 28 episode of General Hospital, Nina began connecting the dots after a casual chat with Maxie Jones. Maxie mentioned the night…
The Wicked movie was only half of the story from the hit Broadway musical. The conclusion — literally the entire second act of the show — is the basis for Wicked: For Good, featuring the same cast (including Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande) and directed once again by Jon M. Chu.The first trailer for the movie features the song that gives the film its subtitle, and teases a larger role for Dorothy and the rest of her friends from The Wizard of Oz than existed in the first Wicked movie (and maybe even the Wicked stage play). It’s also got even more beautiful costumes for Glinda and Elphaba — Elphaba’s…
WorthPoint has some new opportunities for our audience. At WorthPoint, we want to build a site that offers our users a comprehensive experience to help them research, curate, and collect the items they treasure. Here are some recent developments in our work, much of it based on feedback from our readers. Big things are happening at WorthPoint! WorkTeams is a new program that makes it easier for small businesses to access our PriceGuide. Instead of paying for one subscription for one user, we’re rolling out a new pricing structure for organizations that need more than one person to have access…
