Nadya Tolokonnikova is returning to prison—but this time, it’s by choice. The Pussy Riot co-founder will confine herself to a steel replica of a Russian jail cell for Police State, a durational performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Running from June 5th to 14th, the work is part of the museum’s Wonmi WARHOUSE Program. The work will be viewable through surveillance camera footage and peepholes in the museum.The installation is drawn from Tolokonnikova’s experience in Russia’s penal system. She served two years in prison following Pussy Riot’s 2012 anti-Putin performance Punk Prayer. Punk Prayer. The Russian…
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Art Basel has announced it will launch a new fair in Doha, Qatar in February 2026. The event, called Art Basel Qatar, will take place in the M7 museum and cultural center, as well as the Doha Design District.The fair’s first edition will be staged near the National Museum of Qatar and feature around 50 galleries in a “tightly curated selection,” a spokesperson told Art News. Organizers say the fair will highlight modern and contemporary art from the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and beyond. The initiative is a collaboration between Art Basel and its parent company, MCH Group,…
Celebrating its twelfth year, the Chicago Critics Film Festival returned with a robust lineup of over two dozen films and hosted the largest number of in-person guests in its history. On the red carpet, RogerEbert.com spoke with the talent in attendance for the opening-night title “The Baltimorons,” director Jay Duplass, stars Michael Strassner and Liz Lars, and a variety of guests for various festival selections. “Twinless” brought director/co-star James Sweeney and Dylan O’Brien to the Music Box. Director Sarah Friedland and star Kathleen Chalfant charmed viewers ahead of their screening of “Familiar Touch.” At the same time, Northwestern graduate Eva…
The latest Days of Our Lives spoilers feature some intriguing developments, such as an intense fight between Gabi and JJ and Arianna “Ari” Horton’s return to Salem. Once these spoilers popped up online, fans began speculating about the things that will unfold, what Ari’s return means, and whether Ari’s comeback will cause any problems or complications. Co-created by Ted and Betty Corday, this soap opera series, which originally aired on NBC and now streams on Peacock, primarily follows the lives of the Brady and Horton families — who reside in the fictional city of Salem in Illinois. So, will Arianna…
When a movie franchise or studio finds out a character of theirs has become iconic, or at least well recognized, those characters become closely guarded intellectual property. You’re not going to see Captain America showing up in Jurassic World, just like you’ll never see Gandalf in a Star Wars movie. Aside from the fact that it’s difficult-to-impossible to convince multiple movie studios to share the rights to characters or stories at all, it just simply wouldn’t make sense to do it.Except, sometimes, it does. Enter the random character cameo, a quick and easy way to jolt your audience’s attention and…
More than 300 items from the personal collection of beloved television actress Mary Tyler Moore will go to auction at Doyle New York on June 4th. The sale includes art, decorative objects, memorabilia, and jewelry from the late actor’s home in Greenwich, Connecticut, along with select pieces drawn from her residences in Manhattan and Millbrook, New York.Moore, who passed away in 2017, rose to prominence in the 1960s for her role in the The Dick Van Dyke Show. In 1970, she stepped into her role as Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She was widely recognized for defying…
ArtArtsy Editorial“Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series focused on five artists who have our attention. Utilizing our art expertise and Artsy data, we’ve determined which artists made an impact this past month through new gallery representation, exhibitions, auctions, art fairs, or fresh works on Artsy.B. 1991, Seoul. Lives and works in New York.Figures emerge and dissolve within churning storms of crimson red, forest green, and electric blue in Julia Jo’s paintings. The Korean artist’s visual language feels simultaneously intimate and uncontainable, with whispers of flesh rendered in unruly, colorful brushstrokes. In Down on One Knee (2025)—featured in Jo’s…
The net worth of Top 200 collector, businessman and art patron Leonard Blavatnik has fallen by more than £3.5 billion ($470 billion) in the last year, according to the latest edition of the Sunday Times’s “Rich List.” The annual ranking of the wealthiest people based in the UK showed Blavatnik’s net worth fell to £25.725 billion ($34.4 billion) last year, causing his ranking to fall one spot to #3. The Ukrainian businessman made his money from early investments in aluminum and energy companies as they were being privatized during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Blavatnik’s wealth also comes from…
Bearing no relation to the Joseph Conrad novel, the competition entry “The Secret Agent,” from the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (“Bacurau”), is a tricky item to discuss. Not only does it have the kind of convoluted plot—filled with double identities, assassins, and possible red herrings—that you would expect from a film with that title, but it’s also a movie that backs into revealing what it’s really about. It’s a quintessential second-viewing film at a festival that generally only allows for a first. So let’s tread lightly. “The Secret Agent” is principally set in 1977, “a period of great mischief”…
“Nine Perfect Strangers” started as a maximalist show, with Nicole Kidman bewitching those around her as Masha Dmitrichenko, the Eastern Bloc wellness entrepreneur who promised personal transformation with her custom psychedelic therapies. The second season duplicates that formula with a new set of nine strangers, this time in the snowy Swiss Alps. If you felt the first season was heavy on Masha’s backstory—the death of her child, her multiple careers, her near-death experiences—the second season won’t be for you. It goes even deeper into our lead’s history, stripping away the mystery surrounding her and making the show less compelling. As…
