2026 Brooklyn Artists Ball After Party - Brooklyn Museum

More than sixty artists explore migration, memory, and identity in this survey of Puerto Rican abstraction across and beyond the archipelago. Left: Raphael Collazo, “Arcana Mundi (Mysteries of the World)", 1985; Top right: Olga Albizu, “Blue Oil”, 1974; Bottom right: Raphael Montañez Ortíz, “Archaeological Find #22: The Aftermath”, 1961

The Los Angeles-based photographer, who was raised in a conservative Catholic environment, is reclaiming the divinity of queer and trans identity through religious imagery. The First Gathering (2024), with Smiles Meyer as creative director; Kaley Azambuja as stylist; Scout Nankin as intimacy coordinator/movement director; @hot_at_the_party as makeup artist; Betty Connolly as photo/lighting assistant; and models from left to right: Alena, Teague, Joey, JA, Mia, Jules, Annalise, Kat, Bamby, Mars, Chloe, Zaphir, and Lena (all images courtesy Smiles Meyer)

Protesters blocked the Louvre Monday as fallout from a weekend of unrest continues to shake France.

Name: The best reviewed film in history. Age: Not even out yet, except in the US and Canada. Appearance: Coming soon to a screen near you. How exciting! What is it? It’s called You Can See Everything. Who’s in it? DiCaprio? De Niro? Both? It’s not that kind of film. What’s it about, then? The subject of the documentary is Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of … Did you say documentary? No thanks. But reviews of this particular documentary have been overwhelmingly favourable! I don’t go to the cinema to learn things. Critics have been unstinting in their praise for Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s unflinching three-hour examination of the Theranos scandal’s architect and … Three hours? Are you kidding? I know that seems long, but the Guardian’s critic called it “a stupefying and gloriously destabilising hall of psychological mirrors, a thrilling once-in-a-lifetime collision of director and subject”. And audiences have so far been undaunted by the long run time – it logged a phenomenal $15m at the box office in its opening weekend in the US and Canada. Meh. And the film has earned an unprecedented Metacritic score of 99/100. Unprecedented?

Nell Butler, creatorIt all started in the early 00s when I tried to throw a dinner party. I was an executive producer during the early days of reality TV – and a house-proud young mum. My posh cousin and her even posher husband came for a meal. I was rushing to get the kids to bed and tidy up, so the food was an afterthought. I’d never made couscous before but decided to serve it with chicken. It was awful. Dry chicken with congealed couscous. At one point, my cousin’s husband stuck his fork in this rock-solid lump, lifted it up and said, “What actually is this?”When they left, my husband slumped in his chair and said, “I’d give that a three.” I thought there was something funny about scoring somebody’s hosting skills. Everyone leaves those terrible evenings and dissects it with their partner. I came up with the idea of groups of strangers taking it in turns to host, competing for a cash prize. I pitched it as Ladies Who Lunch, with a Real Housewives vibe. ITV rejected it but Channel 4 daytime were interested. They massively improved it by insisting it should be dinner and everyone had to be a decent cook.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured some remarkable phenomena in space, from the Horsehead Nebula to the unbelievable “Pillars of Creation.” Things just got a little bit wilder with brilliant images of the Lion Nebula (NGC 2392) captured by the telescope’s NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid Infrared Instrument). The shape is formed by the remains of a dying star now at a phase known as a white dwarf, when a very dense stellar core remains as it sheds its outer layers. On NGC 2392, the bright center looks like a little nose. “The central dying star is so hot that its radiation is ‘cooking’ everything from the inside and producing a bubble of ionized hydrogen gas as it does,” NASA says. “The gas bubble, which is the lion’s ‘face,’ features cavernous shells and rings with tendrils that are expanding and destroying dust upon encounter.” The lion’s “mane” is actually the inside of one of these shells, illuminated by the star’s core.