TV tonight: Leo Reich’s new London sitcom especially for gen z

Upcoming deadline for MFA program applications at University at Buffalo The University at Buffalo Department of Art invites applications for its MFA in Studio Art degree. The UB MFA is a two-year program in which students, faculty, visiting artists, and curators participate in an energetic, interdisciplinary dialogue around contemporary art. Students develop independent studio practices alongside thematic labs, research, academic electives, seminars, studio visits, group critiques, and exhibitions, while engaging with vibrant local and international arts communities. Our graduates go on to build acclaimed careers in the arts. The Department of Art is situated within an “R1” designated research University, enabling access to knowledge bases across a wide range of creative and academic fields. The department, located in the Center for the Arts, houses the Departments of Art, Media Study, Theater and Dance as well as the UB Art Galleries’ CFA Gallery. Our curriculum encourages interdisciplinary studio practice and research.

If you liked Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G the first time around, you’ll like this less; if you disliked it, you’ll dislike this more; if you suspected it was racist, you’ll be more emboldened to say so – especially as Baron Cohen has dreamed up a whole new character apparently to pre-empt and mock precisely that objection. Broad and crass as it often is – in fact always is – this Ali G sequel is sometimes funny: the athletic vigour of our hero’s pranking and punking is like the umpteenth Jackass film at which you might find yourself laughing, and Baron Cohen blunders with the semi-intentional force of an XL bully into the issue of whether jokes are still allowed. Unlike the first film, Ali G in Da House from 2002, this is not a full written-through narrative. It is basically another live-ammo series of hoaxes with some spectacular bad taste perpetrated upon the deserving and less deserving; it satirises the shamelessness of anti-woke free speech martyrs, punching up and down with grossout cringe, and the targets include some big names who shouldn’t be revealed here.

20. First We Take Manhattan (1988)The synth-heavy production on 1988’s I’m Your Man has always been divisive – even Leonard Cohen’s longtime collaborator Anjani Thomas subsequently expressed misgivings – but on its opening track, it really works. The Pet Shop Boys-ish arrangement chafes against Cohen’s growling vocal, amplifying First We Take Manhattan’s shiver-inducing sense of brooding menace.19. Going Home (2011)Seven years – and a personal financial crisis – after 2004’s half-hearted Dear Heather, Cohen returned to the studio with his powers freshly marshalled. As if to underline the point, Old Ideas opened with the sharply witty Going Home, on which Cohen’s muse addresses the listener directly, disparaging the artist himself as “a lazy bastard in a suit”.18. Memories (1977)Cohen famously called his 1977 LP Death of a Ladies’ Man “a catastrophe”, which perhaps reflected more on its drug- and booze-soaked recording with dangerously erratic producer Phil Spector than the finished album. It’s an outlier in Cohen’s catalogue, but one with much to commend it. Certainly, he maintained an understandable fondness for the rock’n’roll-influenced Memories, often performing it live.17.

An ancient fragment of a statue of a Roman emperor sold last night at Sotheby’s for $34.3 million, a sum that the house has deemed an auction record for a Roman antiquity. The three-and-a-half-foot-tall marble fragment depicts only the emperor’s torso, adorned in an elegant bronze cuirass. According to Sotheby’s, it once belonged to a larger statue of an emperor from the Julio-Claudinian dynasty and dates to the 1st century CE. Like many Roman statues, it is a copy of a Greek one.

Amid ongoing nationwide demonstrations for better living conditions in France, the fair said it will shutter over the weekend “in the interest of safeguarding our visitors.” A general view of the booths at Art Basel Paris 2026 during the preview opening (photo Luc Castel/Getty Images)

iris van herpen explores nature through cymaticsFor her collaboration with the champagne house Maison Perrier-Jouët, Iris van Herpen looks to the vineyards of Champagne, where she records sounds and explores their visual patterns through cymatics, a technique that makes sound visible by showing how vibrations create patterns in materials such as water, sand, or powder. The Dutch fashion designer uses these patterns to create a sculpture made from silk and recycled gold, as well as designs for champagne bottles, drawing on her interest in the forms and rhythms found in nature.