“I love wasting technology,” Mark Pauline tells me. “I love it when you take something that’s really practical and do something ridiculous with it.” We’re standing in the middle of Marlborough Contemporary, a white cube gallery in New York’s Chelsea district that has suddenly been converted into what appears to be a near-future auto repair shop….
All the latest news and highlights from CES 2018
Sony’s new Aibo robotic dog The world’s biggest consumer tech event is back. Here’s everything you need to know about the latest TV and gadget news from Las Vegas TVs at CES 2018 At CES, the TV reigns supreme. So far, 2018 is proving to be no exception to this unwritten rule. Sony, Samsung,…
No, Oprah! Haven’t we learned our lesson with celebrity candidates?
Have we learned nothing? One speech at the Golden Globes — admittedly a barn-burner — and here comes the drumbeat for a billionaire celebrity with no governing experience to run for president. “I’m on the bus with Oprah,” Jimmy Kimmel said. “I want her to run for president,” said Meryl Streep. “She’s running,” tweeted former “Hamilton” star…
A Mega-Dealer Expands: David Zwirner Plans a New Art Gallery
David Zwirner, who is planning a five-story, $50 million gallery designed by Renzo Piano that is to open in 2020. Credit Vincent Tullo for The New York Times On a cold weekday afternoon on an upper floor of one of his Chelsea galleries, the art dealer David Zwirner pointed out the window at a corner lot on…
Lana Del Rey says Radiohead suing over song’s similarity to Creep
The singer-songwriter tweeted ‘it’s true about the lawsuit’, saying Radiohead are asking for 100% of the publishing royalties to her track Get Free Radiohead are suing Lana Del Rey over her song Get Free, which they say bears similarity to their 1993 breakthrough hit Creep. Del Rey tweeted: “It’s true about the lawsuit. Although I know…
US says 200,000 Salvadorans must leave within 18 months
Demonstrators outside the White House protest against the termination of Salvadorans’ TPS [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters] New York, USA – Members of the Salvadoran community in the US have expressed their “devastation” after President Donald Trump’s government said it would stop providing legal status and the ability to work to some 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador. The move,…
Trump’s Twitter Threats Put American Credibility on the Line
BRUSSELS — Since the first of the year, President Trump has attacked a variety of countries in Twitter posts, urging protesters to overthrow the Iranian government, threatening to blow up North Korea and calling for cuts in aid to the Palestinians. In bluster and tone, he has begun 2018 where he left off. Two things…
The juiciest lines from Michael Wolff’s upcoming Trump book ‘Fire and Fury’
President Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, described a controversial meeting of Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and a Russian lawyer as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” to Wolff. The former Breitbart head also told Wolff he expected investigators in the Russia probe to “crack Don Jr. like an egg on national TV.” Bannon also…
Kanye West gave Kim Kardashian 995 Adidas shares for Christmas — here’s why
Kanye West gave his wife, Kim Kardashian West, over $100,000 worth of Adidas stock this year Kanye West gave his wife, Kim Kardashian West, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stocks for Christmas this year, including 995 shares of Adidas, which makes Kanye’s Yeezy shoe line. So while the inclusion of Adidas stock may have been a bit of self…
