At These New York Art World Parties, Everyone’s a Critic

At These New York Art World Parties, Everyone’s a Critic

As the sun set in Manhattan’s meatpacking district on Monday evening, the Whitney Museum of American Art swelled with crowds for the opening of the 81st Whitney Biennial. This year’s show, “Even Better Than the Real Thing,” contends with questions of what is “real” through works about the rise of …

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Sources: Steelers trading QB Pickett to Eagles

Sources: Steelers trading QB Pickett to Eagles

Brooke Pryor, ESPN Staff WriterMar 15, 2024, 02:58 PM ET Close Previously covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and Oklahoma University for the Oklahoman. PITTSBURGH — Hours after quarterback Russell Wilson officially signed his contract with the Steelers, the team traded 2022 first-round pick Kenny Pickett …

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Prosecutors: Sam Bankman-Fried should get 40 to 50 years in prison

Prosecutors: Sam Bankman-Fried should get 40 to 50 years in prison

Federal prosecutors urged a New York judge to sentence Sam Bankman-Fried to 40 to 50 years in prison because of the “extraordinary dimensions” of the disgraced cryptocurrency mogul’s multibillion-dollar fraud. In a more than 100-page filing on Friday, prosecutors methodically laid out Bankman-Fried’s crimes — wire fraud, conspiracy to commit …

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Kelly Clarkson drags ex Brandon Blackstock in a million-dollar lawsuit

Kelly Clarkson drags ex Brandon Blackstock in a million-dollar lawsuit

Kelly Clarkson drags ex Brandon Blackstock in a million-dollar lawsuit Kelly Clarkson has once again hit her ex husband Brandon Blackstock with a major lawsuit. The filing comes four months after a California labor commissioner ruled that the former manager owes the singer around $2.6 million in past commissions for …

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Serge Raoul, Whose SoHo Bistro Glittered With Stars, Dies at 86

Serge Raoul, Whose SoHo Bistro Glittered With Stars, Dies at 86

Serge Raoul, an Alsatian-born former filmmaker who with his brother, Guy, a classically trained chef, founded Raoul’s, a clubby French bistro and SoHo canteen in Lower Manhattan that drew generations of artists, rock stars, writers, models, machers and movie people — along with those who yearned to be near them …

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Joe Camp, Filmmaker Behind ‘Benji’ Franchise, Dies at 84

Joe Camp, Filmmaker Behind ‘Benji’ Franchise, Dies at 84

Joe Camp, a pioneering filmmaker who created the groundbreaking “Benji” franchise, which brought a lovable dog in a live-action film to the masses and became a smash success, died on Friday at his home in Bell Buckle, Tenn. He was 84. The cause was an unspecified illness, his son, the …

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