Citadel CEO and ARTnews Top 200 Collector Ken Griffin said the US is “eroding” its brand right now due to many of the economic policy changes being made during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office. “America rose beyond being a country, it was like an aspiration for most of the world, and we’re eroding that brand right now,” Griffin said during an interview with Semafor senior editor Gina Chon during the media organization’s World Economy Summit in Washington, D.C., on April 23. The event was virtually broadcast on the social media platform X. Related Articles Griffin said that…
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Like the medical dramas of the 2000s, the following decade was swamped by shows about dance. One of the most prevalent was Amy Sherman-Palladino’s “Bunheads,” which followed a former Vegas showgirl turned small-town ballet teacher, and was unfortunately cancelled after one season. Now, nearly 15 years later, Sherman-Palladino and her husband, Daniel Palladino, are back with “Étoile,” a series that stands out as the highlight in their already expansive careers. The eight-episode season follows the behind-the-scenes and on-stage drama of two fictional dance companies, Le Ballet National in Paris and Metropolitan Ballet Theater in New York City. Drowning under financial…
You can scroll through the nigh-endless list of new movies, shows, and comedy specials coming to Netflix in May for yourself. But here, as I see it, are the highlights.Tina Fey turned the Alan Alda movie The Four Seasons into a new TV miniseries. Vince Vaughn has a new comedy movie called Nonnas, where he opens an Italian restaurant with the help of some neighborhood grannies. There’s a new Fear Street film called Prom Queen. There are also new installments in Netflix’s sport documentary series Untold, including one about Brett Favre. Plus there are new comedy specials from Sarah Silverman and Mike Birbiglia, along with Conan O‘Brien receiving…
On Monday, April 21, 2025, much of the world awoke to the news that Pope Francis had passed away. The Pope had been ill during the months leading up to his death. However, he did appear before thousands of the faithful in St. Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday, giving a short message from the Vatican and greeting crowds from his “Popemobile” as it circled the gathered crowd. Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter’s Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass…
Art MarketMaxwell RabbPortrait of Rhona Hoffman, 2025. Photo by Laura Hoffman. Courtesy of Rhona Hoffman Gallery. The Chicago gallerist Rhona Hoffman is known for many things, but being an honorary member of the feminist collective the Guerrilla Girls isn’t one of them. After receiving a letter from the collective criticizing her for a show of German Expressionists that featured mostly men, she mailed back her eponymous Chicago gallery’s exhibition programming with all the women’s names circled in black magic marker. A card soon arrived: “Thanks for the documentation on your record of showing women artists, which has qualified you to…
According to Netflix’s own metrics, the streaming services #1 all-time most popular series (in English) is Wednesday, based on The Addams Family comic strips and movies and assorted other franchise paraphernalia. On Netflix’s ratings website, it’s listed with 252,100,000 views total — putting it ahead of all of Netflix’s biggest properties, like Stranger Things and Bridgerton. So obviously they made more episodes.The second season of Wednesday is done and it will premiere on Netflix later this summer — in two batches. The first six episodes debut in August and the final two will be available in September.Jenna Ortega reprises her role as Wednesday Addams, joined by new cast…
Believe it or not, there was a time when the world wasn’t at your fingertips. If you wanted to experience far-off places, you either picked up an Encyclopedia Britannica (remember that guy?) or caught your favorite movies and TV shows (when they were on).TV and Movie Locations That Fueled Every Every Kid’s Sense of AdventureThese days, you can fire up the ol’ Google Street View and wander up to the Taj Mahal or Eiffel Tower. Where’s the adventure in that?Astoria, Oregon From ‘The Goonies’Fans of ‘The Goonies’ will immediately recognize this street from Astoria, Oregon — and want to go there. (Getty Images)But if…
Instagram is just one more tool in a reseller’s toolbox. If you are a reseller, Instagram can help you grow and diversify your business. However, as you work on your online presence, beware of classic social media pitfalls such as “Instagram brain rot.” While being on social media may seem counterintuitive for the vintage and antique trade, it is an integral part of the business. One primary reason is that the vintage and antique business is often a visual realm, where buyers and potential customers often shop not just with their wallets but with their eyes. A well-photographed item can…
I’m going places, Tamara de Lempicka seems to be saying in Tamara in the Green Bugatti, her iconic 1929 self-portrait. And I’ll be driving there myself. Showing the artist decked out in a Hermès doeskin cap and gloves and driving a luxury Bugatti car, the painting limns an elegantly self-fashioned woman of the Roaring Twenties. Artistically active for six decades, Lempicka was only in the limelight during the 1920s and 30s; interest in her then faded but was rekindled after her death in 1980, with exhibitions of her work in Europe and a recent Broadway show devoted to her story.…
Video game writers have become much more adept at using death as something more worthwhile than a dramatic plot device over the last decade or so. The starting point in Tetsuya Takahashi’s “Xenoblade Chronicles 3” is a frank admission that no one knows how to handle grief, honor the dead, or live what amounts to a good life, ThunderLotus honed in on the specific moment of farewell and the pain of dealing with the physical and emotional space the dead leave behind. When new studio Sandfall Interactive first announced “Clair Obscur: Expedition 33” and promised a “dark and mature” story…
