When The Rock first came to Hollywood from WWE — back when he was really still only known as The Rock, he didn’t start going by Dwayne Johnson until a couple year slater — he shrunk down his massive wrestling physique so he could play slightly more plausible real people in films.As time went on, Johnson got bigger again — bigger than he ever was back in his pro wrestling days, in fact. And now, to play UFC fighter Mark Kerr, Johnson is maybe the biggest he’s ever been in a movie. He’s huge. His skin looks like it’s fighting a battle with…
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The showrunners of the psychological thriller series You have disclosed that they had planned an alternate ending for the show that would have revealed the supernatural nature of Penn Badgley’s Joe Goldberg. You debuted on Lifetime on September 9, 2018, before shifting to Netflix from Season 2. The final chapter of the series, Season 5, premiered on Netflix on April 24, 2025, and drew Joe’s story to a close. You showrunners discuss an alternate ending where Joe learns he’s a ghost You showrunners, Justin W. Lo and Michael Foley, spoke about the series ending during an interview with the New…
In 1973, during the opening of her first San Francisco Museum of Modern Art retrospective, Ruth Asawa held what she called a “dough-in,” a communal experience that was part baking, part art, and part fun. Asawa’s recipe for a batch of baker’s clay, a white nonedible substance, went something like this: measure out 4 cups of flour and 1 cup of salt, then combine it with 1½ cups of water and hand it over to a group of kids to do the mixing. Some 1,000 parents and children took part, popping their creations into an oven in the café downstairs.…
French photographer Zélie Hallosserie, whose work documents the urgent realities of immigrant life in Europe, has been named the inaugural winner of the Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize. The 21-year-old artist is currently completing her bachelor’s degree in photography at ESA Saint-Luc Tournai in Belgium. The prize was launched by American artist Annie Leibovitz, known for her bold, posed portraits of celebrities, in partnership with New York–based photographer Lisa Saltzman. The prize totals $20,000, supported by the Saltzman Foundation, with Hallosserie receiving the $10,000 first-place award. Shortlisted artists include Ukrainian artist Elena Kalinichenko, American photographer Ka’Vozia Glynn, Nigerian artist Praise Hassan, Romanian…
General Hospital fans were left stunned after Sonny Corinthos faced yet another near-death experience—this time involving a death vision and a deadly assassin. Here’s an explainer about what went down on the April 28 Episode of General Hospital. What was Sonny’s death vision and how did his dad return in General Hospital? In General Hospital, Sonny has a death vision and his dad makes an appearance when he is recovering from emergency heart surgery in Los Angeles. Still heavily sedated, he was vulnerable—and that’s when a fake nurse slipped into his room. She disabled his monitors and prepared to inject…
Suki Seokyeong Kang, a Korean sculptor, painter, and video and performance artist known for revisiting traditional Korean art traditions through a contemporary lens, died at 48 on Sunday, April 27th. Her passing was announced by Seoul’s Kukje Gallery on Monday. Tina Kim Gallery, which represents the artist in New York, said she died after a year-long battle with cancer. In her work, Kang engaged with several traditional Korean art forms. Jeongganbo, a musical notation system originating in the 15th century, influenced the gridded structure of her sculptures.; Joseon Dynasty painting, meanwhile, inspired her to incorporate her own subjectivity in depictions…
1950 Green Bay Packers stock certificate found at a Wisconsin thrift store.Image Source: Dominic Blozinski via Green Bay Packers Gazette The 2025 NFL Draft was held in Green Bay, Wisconsin, from April 24-26. The day before the draft started, a historic piece of Green Bay Packers memorabilia was found at a thrift store about five miles away. Green Bay resident Dominic Blozinski discovered a 1950 Packers stock certificate at the St. Vincent de Paul thrift store in Ashwaubenon on April 23. When Blozinski saw the certificate, his hands “started shaking,” he told the Green Bay Press Gazette. Blozinski was “about…
A Minecraft Movie screenings made news earlier this month when the film opened in theaters to raucous sold out screenings, filled with teens screaming and applauding and reciting lines from the film, even though it had only been out for a few days at most at the time.That’s because the film had gone viral on TikTok even before its official release, where compilations of kids yelling along with lines like “Chicken jockey!” became wildly popular. At most screenings, this was just a strange phenomenon that Olds (like me!) could not understand. But other showings of A Minecraft Movie got so rowdy that theaters had to call…
Museums may tout themselves as being separate from the market, but the reality is more complicated. As others have observed, in today’s art world, sales lead to fame, fame leads to retrospectives, and retrospectives lead to more sales. There often aren’t price tags attached to what’s held within museum walls, but institutional offerings can be capitalized all the same. You don’t need to be an expert to notice the trend. But even for those well aware of it, it is notable that, this spring in New York, all the survey exhibitions at high-profile Manhattan museums are from artists represented by…
Although any piece of Roseville is a beautiful addition to your collection, the early lines are particularly coveted. Roseville pottery is popular with collectors for its beauty, craftsmanship, variety of patterns, and history. The Roseville Pottery Company of Roseville, Ohio, was a major player in the American art pottery movement, producing a wide range of decorative ceramics. Though any Roseville is great to collect, early art pottery lines are particularly coveted and can fetch high prices. FACTORS THAT INCREASE VALUE Much of the Roseville pottery on the market today is over a century old, which speaks to its timeless appeal.…
