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Kyle Richards is throwing her support behind her sister, Kathy Hilton. Posting via her Instagram Story on Friday, June 5, Richards, 57, defended HIlton, 67, after she stepped down as the grand marshal of the West Hollywood Pride Parade due to backlash from the LGBTQIA+ community. “My sister Kathy has always been a supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community and will continue to be,” Richards wrote in the post. “As far as ‘MAGA ties’, just because you are acquainted with or associated with or associated with someone in the past or present, does not mean you share their political views.” Richards…
Weekly Newsletter Deep cuts at Pace gallery, artists threaten to sue the Venice Biennale, and the importance of reintegrating art with life Tell me, who needs an eight-story gallery in Manhattan that feels like a mall, plus cavernous outposts in Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Geneva, Seoul, and Tokyo? Who needs a roster of 135 artists, including a battery of estates? Who needs those so-called “museum-quality” exhibitions that reframe art history for us through the narrow lens of a bottom-line-oriented dealer? Pace, a mega gallery, made headlines this week after it slashed one-third of its artists and one-fifth of its staff.…
As Ebola spreads in East Africa, the United States is playing a much smaller role than it has in previous outbreaks. That leaves China, an economic powerhouse with epidemic control and biotech expertise, as the next global power that could commit supplies, money and medical workers to the effort.In Mongbwalu, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo that is the epicenter of the outbreak, treatment centers are in dire need of equipment, medicine and basic supplies. A lack of testing has made it harder to slow the spread of the Bundibugyo virus, which caused the outbreak and for which…
Iranian officials say technical staff have been denied visas, hours after the US said players could enter the country.
Mexico will take some momentum into its home World Cup after smashing Serbia 5-1 on Thursday night in its final pre‑tournament warm-up match — and third straight tune-up win. The victory in a sold‑out 30,000‑seat Nemesio Díez Stadium in Toluca, México state, stretched Mexico’s unbeaten run to six wins and two draws in its last eight matches. This was the scene Thursday night outside Toluca’s Nemesio Diez Stadium during the Mexico-Serbia match that served as a World Cup warm-up for the security forces as well as the players.(Crisanta Espinosa Aguilar / Cuartoscuro.com) Johan Vásquez, Raúl Jiménez and Luis Chávez scored…
This is the countdown to launch that tops them all. The SpaceX IPO is set for Friday, June 12, and hopeful investors are anxious to grab a share of what will likely be the largest stock debut in history. Meanwhile, Anthropic and OpenAI are busily preparing for their own public stock introductions. SpaceX stock will be available through five brokerage firms, including Charles Schwab, E-Trade, Fidelity, Robinhood, and SoFi. Each firm will allocate its shares according to its own investor criteria. The SpaceX initial public offering is expected to trade under the ticker symbol SPCX on the Nasdaq exchange. Elon…
Off Campus star Mika Abdalla and ex-fiancé Jake Short are speaking out exclusively to Us Weekly regarding a controversial resurfaced podcast clip that’s been making waves online following their split. “We’ve seen a conversation around clips of us together when we were in a relationship, and people making harmful and inaccurate assumptions about our dynamic,” read the joint statement from Abdalla, 26, and Short, 29, about the resurfaced conversation from a 2024 episode of “The Sit and Chat” podcast. (In the video, Short made a joke in reference to Abdalla that some social media users have since dubbed controversial online.)…
Jamie Nares (photo Charlie Rubin, courtesy the artist)This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2026 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with queer and trans elder artists throughout June.In sublime canvases animated by choreographies of sweeping motion, Jamie Nares captures the bravura of a brushstroke. The London-born artist has also made experimental films, photography, and music rooted in the spirit of the No Wave movement into which she was thrust when she relocated to New York City in the mid-1970s. In our interview, Nares, who came out as transgender in 2019 and changed her artist name in 2024, leads us through her distinct personal…
The suspects were caught while allegedly trying to sell the endangered mammal, authorities said Four suspects are expected to appear in the Welkom Magistrate’s Court in South Africa’s Free State province, following their arrest for attempting to sell an endangered pangolin for R80,000 ($5,000).The suspects, aged between 47 and 62, face charges of contravening the National Environmental Management Biodiversity Act 10 of 2004 and the Animals Protection Act 71 of 1962.A pangolin is a solitary, nocturnal mammal easily recognised by the tough, overlapping keratin scales that cover its body.Pangolins are considered the world’s most heavily trafficked wild mammals. They are…
If you go to a World Cup match during the upcoming 23rd edition of the tournament, you’ll buy your beer, hot dogs, tacos or whatever takes your fancy from a FIFA-accredited vendor. If the stadium bathrooms you use qualify for three or more stars under Sarah DeVries’ rating system for Mexican baños, you can thank FIFA-accredited cleaning staff for keeping them in order. And if you read a media report filed from one of the 16 stadiums across Mexico, the United States and Canada that will host the 104 World Cup matches this summer, you’ll be reading the work of a FIFA-accredited…