Rowan Ellison writes cultural criticism that makes an argument and stands behind it. Willing to take the unfashionable side — provided the reasoning holds up.
The cartridge spent 40 years unopened inside its original NES bundle. Heritage Auctions called it the earliest confirmed sealed copy of the game; the sale is the highest price any video game has fetched at public auction.
A Prix Goncourt-listed novel allegedly written by AI has put authorship at the centre of publishing's biggest annual gathering. Over 120 publishers have signed an appeal calling for AI regulation, as a new survey finds 58 percent of readers say they couldn't tell a human-written book from a machine-generated one.
A new book draws on the Stendahl Art Galleries archive to document how hundreds of smuggled objects moved from Mexico to LA collectors and museums. One sculpture sold to the Minneapolis Institute of Art for $10,000 was later found to be a forgery.
'NAZA' features anonymous testimony from 24 Israeli soldiers alleging that forces knowingly killed large numbers of civilians. The army chief of staff ordered an investigation into possible leaks of classified material, while the culture minister raised the prospect of revoking the directors' citizenship.
Both groups let the submission deadline pass without entering music. The Recording Academy's new Best Asian Pop award requires meaningful use of an Asian language, a rule that has already excluded BTS and Blackpink's latest English-language releases.
The AMC Kips Bay 15, the only IMAX cinema on Manhattan's East Side, is set to close at the end of 2026. More than 3,200 people have signed a petition to save it, and seven elected officials have written to NYU Langone demanding answers — so far without a response.
Theja Rio's debut feature, set in 1960s Nagaland and filmed mostly in Konyak, is the first non-English-language Platform Prize winner to receive automatic entry for Academy Awards international feature film consideration. Rio, 31, was born in Nagaland and is based in London.
The horror director built his reboot around an original story with no legacy characters, drawing fan anger but glowing reviews. It opened to $60 million and sits at the top of Rotten Tomatoes' video game movie rankings.
Prison officials rejected Lasha Bugadze's The Observer for a jailed activist, claiming the title was ambiguous. PEN Georgia said the decision was political, not literary.
Gilbert, a founding member of the Florida pop-punk band, had undergone surgery, radiation and emergency brain surgery since his diagnosis in 2021. He returned to performing just three months before his death and is survived by his wife Lisa Cimorelli and their five-year-old daughter Lily.
"Father Country I Do Love You" spreads across all six floors of the New York museum's spiral rotunda — the first time any artist has filled it entirely. The 42-chapter show follows the agent's career through the major events of 20th-century American history.
Four support acts pulled out and ticket prices fell by up to 50 percent after the rapper played his pro-Palestine song at a New Jersey stadium show. Sheeran's team has not said who made the call to remove him.
NAZA, produced by the Guardian, received a 25-minute standing ovation — reported as the longest in the festival's history. Netanyahu has pledged to revoke citizenship from anyone he says defames Israeli soldiers, and to increase statutory defamation damages 20-fold, citing the film ahead of Israel's October 27 election.
'The History of Concrete' follows the creator of 'How To with John Wilson' to ancient buildings in Italy and trade conventions in Las Vegas. It also records, in real time, his Zoom calls pitching the same film to Hollywood executives.
The black silk gown she wore to upstage Prince Charles's adultery confession in 1994 goes on display in London, Hong Kong, Geneva and New York before the 9 December sale. It last sold at auction in 1997 for £39,098.
Open letters, boycotts and benefit events have drawn thousands of cultural figures since October 2023. Macklemore, Melissa Barrera, Bella Hadid and others say their public positions led to lost contracts and cancelled appearances.
The German-American artist brought Day-Glo flowers, rainbows and psychedelic portraits to a mass audience over six decades. He died in Manhattan after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
RTÉ said the scale of civilian deaths and restrictions on journalists in Gaza made participation impossible to justify. The Netherlands has also pulled out, leaving organisers facing a second year of boycotts.
The director behind 'The Battle of Chile' — long regarded as Latin America's greatest documentary trilogy — died in Paris following a cardiorespiratory arrest. His trilogy had just become available on Mubi days before his death.
Tour promoter Messina Touring Group said venues would not host shows with Macklemore on the bill, leaving it with no choice but to drop him. The rapper accused New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft of pressing Sheeran and other stadium owners to have him removed.
The 58-year-old performed 26 songs over two hours at Plenitude Arena in Nanterre, her first full-length show since stiff person syndrome forced her off stage in 2020. Sixteen sold-out nights run through 14 October, with ten more to follow in 2027.
The film features testimony from 24 anonymous Israeli military and intelligence insiders describing AI-assisted targeting systems they say were expected to kill civilians. The IDF categorically rejects the allegations, saying strike decisions are made by humans only.
Studio Drift and architect Shigeru Ban flew each drone for a single life lost. Together they traced the towers at full scale above the harbour on 9 September.
"You Can See Everything" is an A24 film built around Holmes's own invitation to follow her. Production began 34 days before she was due to report to prison and grew into a three-year project.
Morgan died peacefully in her sleep in New York City after 17 years with Parkinson's Disease. Her death came days after that of her close friend and fellow feminist Gloria Steinem.
Elsinore, premiering at Telluride, follows Ian Charleson's final year and his 1989 Hamlet at London's National Theatre. Charleson died of AIDS in 1990, aged 40. Olivia Colman also stars.
The 300,000-square-foot building in Exposition Park holds more than 40,000 works, from Frida Kahlo and Norman Rockwell to Star Wars and Indiana Jones archives. Doors open to the public on September 22; adult admission is $25.
The 70-metre embroidery depicting the Norman conquest of England has arrived at the British Museum in London. The public exhibition opens on 10 September — but tickets are already sold out through the end of 2026.
Berry wrote more than 50 volumes of poetry, fiction and argument defending family farms, local food and the bond between land and community. He farmed with draft horses and wrote mostly in pencil, living by the beliefs he spent a lifetime articulating.
The auction house pressed ahead with a controversial AI-art sale opposed by 6,000 artists while openly acknowledging that the tech-wealth class it is courting is too busy building to buy.
Tate is planning two major retrospectives for 2027, as a Serpentine show made on an iPad during lockdown passes 200,000 visitors in its final weeks.
Curator Sang-ah Kim selected five permanent artefacts — including a Silla Kingdom bell said to echo on track 29 — whose themes of hope and belonging mirror those of the group's fifth studio album, 'Arirang'.
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