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Lehmann Maupin, Wendi Norris Pair Leonora Carrington, Cecilia Vicuña

Lehmann Maupin, Wendi Norris Pair Leonora Carrington, Cecilia Vicuña

Published by Jenni Sidey

Lehmann Maupin and Gallery Wendi Norris will collaborate on a two-part exhibition pairing the work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington and artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña for the first time. The first part of the exhibition, titled “Leonora Carrington & Cecilia Vicuña,” will open at Lehmann Maupin in New York on November 19, while the second part will open at Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco in January. The two parts have distinct checklists, to accommodate for the different scale of each location, though the parts share some overlap. Source link

Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses?

Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses?

Published by Miika Tikkanen

I am nothing if not a huge movie buff. I watch way too many of them, and I’m always on the hunt for a new format in which to experience them. So when XREAL, the smart glasses company, sent me an a01 — one of its newer models, which it released in May of this year — I was eager to give them a spin as the newest vector by which to satisfy my media fanaticism. The a01 isn’t a particularly sophisticated smart glasses model. Unlike more software-heavy AR glasses like, say, the Meta Orion or Snap’s Specs, it’s basically just an external monitor. It also doesn’t have a battery or an internal power mechanism. Instead, a simple USB-C cable plugs the glasses into a device of your choosing, which then becomes the headset’s power source. It’s also not so expensive, at an accessible price point of around $300. The a01 is actually optimized for gaming, in that it can be plugged into a Steam Deck or other handheld gaming device. However, XREAL also advertises …

A pair of unlikely films remind us why painful memories matter

A pair of unlikely films remind us why painful memories matter

Published by Sam Flores

Across the first six months of 2026, an unusually high number of theatrically released films have seemed like paired companion pieces, feature-length notes on a theme that can or should be watched back-to-back. This isn’t all that uncommon: Trends crop up in filmmaking all the time, as potential narratives emerge from real-life events and cultural obsessions. Sometimes this happens because the studios are trying to capitalize on a moment, like when “The Minecraft Movie” coasted in on the fumes of “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.” Other cinematic companions are inadvertent and more thoughtful, woven together like the harmonies of a duet. This year, “Exit 8” and the upcoming “Backrooms” toyed with a less-is-more approach to claustrophobic, liminal horror. “Ready or Not 2” and “They Will Kill You” took one last swing at the well-worn eat-the-rich occult subgenre. “Mother Mary” and “The Moment” explored the natural endpoint of pop-star fixation in the age of the internet. One could even make an argument for a double feature of “Animal Farm” and “Wuthering Heights” as two wildly different …

OJ 287 has the most supermassive pair of black holes ever

OJ 287 has the most supermassive pair of black holes ever

Published by Jenni Sidey

The closest supermassive black hole pair, in NGC 7727, was discovered in 2021. The galaxy NGC 7727 shows extended spiral arms: likely the aftermath of a recent major merger between two comparably massive galaxies. The presence of two supermassive black holes inside this galaxy, as well as the extended streams of gas and stars, show one possible outcome of a major merger of two similar-mass, initially gas-rich galaxies. Credit: ESO/VST ATLAS team. Acknowledgment: Durham University/CASU/WFAU Just 89 million light-years away, these 154,000,000- and 6,300,000-solar-mass black holes are just 1,600 light-years apart. A close-up (left) and wider-field (right) view of the central nucleus of the nearby galaxy NGC 7727. Just 89 million light-years away, it houses the closest pair of binary supermassive black holes known, with a separation of 1,600 light-years. While friction with the environment can lead supermassive black holes to closely approach one another, the final stages of an inspiral and merger should come due to gravitational wave emission. Binary supermassive black holes are fairly common at the centers of galaxies, representing about 1-in-1000 …