Under a sky that turned from gray to dazzling blue, several hundred visitors rolled up to the doors of a stunning 1930s mansion on Sunset Boulevard for the opening day of Design Miami’s first Los Angeles edition. Many of them in Porsches. It was already clear that this was to be a design fair like…
Barbara Hannigan conducts the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (Photo: Leifur Wilberg) The Iceland Symphony Orchestra (ISO) has announced the appointment of Barbara Hannigan as their Chief Conductor and Artistic Director. She’ll take up the baton in Reykjavík officially starting in August 2026, with an initial appointment of three seasons. The arrangement will see Hannigan work with…
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. What a Difference a Decade Makes Jimmy Fallon celebrated 10 years of hosting “The Tonight Show” on Tuesday. “Ten…
Sotheby’s kicked off this month’s marquee New York auctions with two sales on Monday evening, one devoted to established contemporary artists, the other to emerging ones. Together, the two auctions brought in $267.3 million, for a total squarely within its pre-sale estimate of $241.8 million to $350.4 million. These were the first two big auctions…
The drowned city of Atlantis has captivated mankind across the centuries, as a utopian naval empire of demigods with advanced technologies that ruled the entire known western world. The legendary city was first mentioned around 360 B.C.E. by the Greek philosopher Plato. He wrote the story of the nation’s rise and calamitous fall, when the…