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Gustav Klimt portrait that spared its subject from Nazis breaks modern art records with $236M sale
By Canadian Press on November 18th, 2025
A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million — a record for a modern art piece — at an auction where a solid gold toilet also fetched $12.1 million. Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” sold at Sotheby’s in New York after ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump attacks ABC reporter after question about killing of Saudi journalist Khashoggi
By Canadian Press on November 18th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump denounced ABC News’ Mary Bruce as a “terrible reporter” Tuesday and threatened the network’s license to broadcast after she asked him three sharp questions at the White House. The network’s chief White House correspondent was among reporters let into the Oval Office to question the president and Saudi ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Flush with cash? Fully functional, solid gold toilet sells for $12.1M at auction
By Canadian Press on November 18th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 million. The toilet, by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana to a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rapper Nicki Minaj calls for protections for Christians in Nigeria at UN event
By Canadian Press on November 18th, 2025
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Rapper Nicki Minaj took up President Donald Trump’s allegations that Christians are persecuted in Nigeria, saying Tuesday at a United Nations event organized by the U.S. that she wants to shine a spotlight on “the deadly threat.” Trump has said Christianity faces an “existential threat” in Nigeria and has told the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump attacks ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce in angry response to three sharp questions
By Canadian Press on November 18th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump denounced ABC News’ Mary Bruce as a “terrible reporter” Tuesday and threatened the network’s license to broadcast after she asked him three sharp questions at the White House. The network’s chief White House correspondent was among reporters let into the Oval Office to question the president and Saudi ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!After backlash, Alabama Public Television will keep paying for PBS
By Canadian Press on November 18th, 2025
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing a public backlash, the commission that oversees Alabama Public Television on Tuesday voted to continue paying its contract with PBS, rejecting an effort — at least for now — to be the first state to cut ties with the broadcast giant because of politics and federal budget cuts. The Alabama ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Court settlement calls for NPR to get $36M in government funds to operate US public radio system
By Canadian Press on November 18th, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — National Public Radio will receive approximately $36 million in grant money to operate the nation’s public radio interconnection system under the terms of a court settlement with the federal government’s steward of funding for public broadcasting stations. The settlement, announced late Monday, partially resolves a legal dispute in which NPR accused the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: George Clooney stars in ‘Jay Kelly,’ a Hollywood tale of self-discovery
By Canadian Press on November 18th, 2025
During his glittering career, George Clooney has played a casino thief, a Batman,a chain-gang convict, an assassin and a high-flying layoff artist. This fall, he’s stretching even more, playing an utterly charming and gorgeous movie star. Kidding! Reality and fiction beautifully weave in and out in “Jay Kelly,” director Noah Baumbach’s love letter to Hollywood ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Labubu and ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ to dazzle at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Here’s what to know
By Canadian Press on November 18th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Two things that made massive cultural splashes this year — Labubu and “KPop Demon Hunters” — will fill the sky and streets of New York when the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade kicks off this year. The Nov. 27 parade begins rain or shine on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and ends at ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Flush with cash? A solid gold toilet is up for auction
By Canadian Press on November 18th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Art collectors have a chance Tuesday to buy one of the world’s most lucrative latrines: a solid gold, fully functional toilet. The piece, by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana to a wall — goes up for auction Tuesday evening at Sotheby’s in New York. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: Sorry, my pretty, ‘Wicked: For Good’ doesn’t delight
By Canadian Press on November 18th, 2025
“Give us a clock tick” is an expression uttered several times in “Wicked: For Good.” But Jon M. Chu’s two-part musical has asked for quite a bit more than that. Together, the two halves of this “Wicked” adaptation have run 297 minutes, which, more than the threat of lions and tigers and bears, is enough ... Read More »
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