Move Over Mundi

from Vanity Fair Will This Warhol Become the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold? When one of the pop artist’s famed portraits of Marilyn Monroe goes to auction next month, some observers think it could fetch up to half a billion dollars. What is it about this particular...

Mamet Uncensored

from The Wall Street Journal David Mamet Is a Defiant Scribe in the Age of Conformity The playwright won’t play along with woke signaling, talismanic masking or deference to petty tyrants. By Barton Swaim ILLUSTRATION: KEN FALLIN Back in the 1980s and ’90s,...

Bet on Ice Cream in the first.

from People Magazine Michelle Pfeiffer Bought Her Iconic Scarface Sunglasses for Just $3 By Bianca Brutus Who says timeless style has to cost a mint? Not Michelle Pfeiffer! The Scarface star told Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest on Friday morning that her says her iconic...

Trapping Fish With Giant Penises

from Nautilus The Genius of Fishing with Tidal Weirs Native and non-native scientists have come together to counter overfishing with an ancient practice. BY KATA KARÁTH GONE FISHING: A fishing weir in the Micronesian state of Yap. The “arrow” of stone walls traps fish...

The New Unreal

from TIME Inside Epic’s Unreal Engine 5—and What It Means for the Future of Gaming, Movies, and the Metaverse BY ANDREW R. CHOW For years, the 3D software development tool Unreal Engine has powered some of the biggest video games on the...

Cancelling Picasso

from France24 Is Picasso being cancelled? Fifty years after his death, the debate around Pablo Picasso’s treatment of women is only getting more heated – AFP/File Pablo Picasso’s track-record with women certainly would not make him a feminist pin-up...