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☆ Renaissance Portraits That Played Hide and Seek
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Karen Rosenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Met’s delightful show “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance” illuminates a curious trend in 15th- and 16th-century painting: the slow reveal. The works on view, originally concealed in special cases and behind sliding or reversible panels, gamify the experience of looking at portraiture; they have to be moved, before they can move us. But we can peer at them from double-sided glass cases and watch animations of faces emerging from sliding panels. The covers are marvelous works in their own right, with elaborate emblems and allegories that are themselves a form of representation. The interactions between the different components can be quite playful, with a literary and theatrical flair.

Persons: Ridolfo Ghirlandaio Organizations: Met, Courtauld Locations: London, Florence, Florentine

☆ For Sale: One Huge Drawing, Maybe by Michelangelo
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Elisabetta Povoledo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For half a century, the Sernesi family lived in a storied villa overlooking Florence, in which the Renaissance artist Michelangelo was raised and later owned. The property came with several buildings, an orchard and a drawing of a muscular male nude etched on the wall of a former kitchen. Tradition has it that the work was drawn by a young Michelangelo, though scholars are not as sure. Last year, the Sernesi family sold the villa. Now they want to sell the mural drawing, which was detached from its original location in 1979 so that it could undergo a much-needed restoration.

Persons: Michelangelo, Carmen C Organizations: Metropolitan Locations: Florence, Japan, Canada, China, United States

☆ ‘Dune: Part Two’ Review: Bigger, Wormier and Way Far Out
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Manohla Dargis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Having gone big in “Dune,” his 2021 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s futuristic opus, the director Denis Villeneuve has gone bigger and more far out in the follow up. Set in the aftermath of the first movie, the sequel resumes the story boldly, delivering visions both phantasmagoric and familiar. Like Timothée Chalamet’s dashingly coifed hero — who steers monstrous sandworms over the desert like a charioteer — Villeneuve puts on a great show. The art of cinematic spectacle is alive and rocking in “Dune: Part Two,” and it’s a blast. “Dune” made it clear that Villeneuve isn’t that kind of textualist.

Persons: Frank Herbert’s, Denis Villeneuve, —, — Villeneuve, “, Jon Spaihts, Stephen McKinley Henderson Organizations: Villeneuve

☆ Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya recall meeting ‘terrifying creature’ Austin Butler on ‘Dune: Part Two’ set
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Recalling her first day on set in Budapest, Zendaya told CNN in a recent interview that arriving to see an in-character Butler filming one of his scenes “was quite jarring.”The “Euphoria” star added that it was her first time “properly meeting and getting to know” Butler. “But it was also funny because once you get to know Austin, you see that he’s obviously very warm and very kind. From just five seconds ago, being this terrifying creature, and then being like, ‘Hey, how are you? Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros. PicturesIn the end though, Chalamet said that while his fight sequences with Butler required a lot of work, it turned out well. “But it was a dream.”In “Dune: Part Two,” – which comes from Warner Bros. Pictures, owned by CNN’s parent company Warner Bros.

Persons: Denis Villeneuve’s, Timothée, Christopher Walken, Florence Pugh, Léa Seydoux, Anya Taylor, Joy, Austin Butler, Butler –, Oscar, Elvis ” –, Zendaya, Butler, “, ” Butler, ”, Austin, Chalamet, Wonka, Timothee Chalamet, Niko Tavernise, – Chalamet’s Paul Atreides, Stellan, Glossu Rabban, Dave Bautista, Butler’s Organizations: CNN, Warner Bros, Pictures, Warner Bros . Pictures Locations: Budapest, LA, Hungary

☆ Review: A Soprano Cements Her Stardom in the Met’s New ‘Forza’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Zachary Woolfe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As dramatic music swirled late Monday evening, the woman trudged a few steps pushing a filthy shopping cart — so hunched and bedraggled that she seemed like an extra, sent onstage to set the scene before the star entered. Then she opened her mouth, and a note emerged so pure and clear, widening into a cry before narrowing back into a murmur, that it could only be the soprano Lise Davidsen, cementing her stardom in a new production of Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” at the Metropolitan Opera. In her still-young Met career, Davidsen has triumphed in works by Tchaikovsky, Wagner and especially Strauss. She has quickly become the rare singer you want to hear in everything. But Verdi and the Italian repertoire traditionally belong to voices more velvety and warm than hers, which has the coolly powerful authority of an ivory sword, particularly in flooding high notes.

Persons: Lise Davidsen, Davidsen, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Strauss, Verdi Organizations: Forza, Metropolitan Opera Locations: Italian

☆ The 2024 Met Gala theme has been announced — along with four superstar co-chairs
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Fashion’s biggest night of the year is just around the corner, and the Met Gala red carpet theme has finally been announced — along with superstars Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth as this year’s co-chairs. Florals are sure to abound on this year’s red carpet thanks to the theme “The Garden of Time,” but the novel it takes inspiration from has darker undertones. (Pictured above: Rihanna at the 2023 Met Gala.) “One thing I hope this show will activate is that sensorial appreciation of fashion.”The year’s co-chairs — alongside Vogue editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour — include Met Gala mainstays and debuts. The Met Gala theme often vacillates between straightforward retrospectives (such as the event’s 1996 homage to Christian Dior, and the 1997 theme dedicated to Gianni Versace) and more artful, subjective prompts.

Persons: CNN —, Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, J, Ballard, Princess Aurora, Rihanna, Dimitrios Kambouris, ” Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu, Anna Wintour —, Hemsworth, Loewe, Jonathan Anderson, Shou Zi Chew, Karl Lagerfeld’s, Christian Dior, Gianni Versace, Count Axel Organizations: CNN, New, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vogue Locations: British

☆ The “Dune: Part Two” cast’s red carpet looks are out of this world
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Doug Peters/PA Images/Alamy Images/Sipa USATimothée Chalamet in Haider Ackermann at the London premiere. Jeff Spicer/Getty ImagesLea Seydoux in an intricately-embroidered Louis Vuitton gown at the London premiere. Marc Piasecki/Getty ImagesChalamet in Prada at the Mexico City premiere on February 6. Medios y Media/Getty ImagesButler in Saint Laurent in Mexico City. Angel Delgado/Getty ImagesChalamet in Hermès at a Mexico City photocall on February 5.

Persons: ” Law Roach, Zendaya, Rick Owens, Timothée Chalamet, Alexander McQueen, Paul Atreides, Roach, Thierry, Haider Ackermann, Florence Pugh, Valentino, Lea Seydoux, Rebecca Ferguson, Louis Vuitton, Anya Taylor, Joy, Dior, Doug Peters, Chalamet, Mike Marsland, Jeff Spicer, Hannah McKay, Scott A, Thierry Mugler, Daniel Leal, Samir Hussein, Austin Butler, Gucci, Ferguson, Marc Piasecki, Geoffroy Van Der, Pugh, Butler, Angel Delgado, Jaime Nogales Organizations: CNN, Balmain, London, Getty, Reuters, Paris, Chalamet, Givenchy Haute Couture, Couture, Mexico City, photocall Locations: Mexico City, Paris, London, Fendi, Bottega Veneta, Zendaya, Roksanda, Louis, Givenchy Haute, Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt, AFP, Prada, Mexico, Saint Laurent, Hermès

LONDON (AP) — Zendaya is on a fashion roll, in a cyborg “Dune: Part Two” kind of way. The co-star of the highly anticipated film sequel stunned Thursday at its world premiere when she hit the sand-strewn carpet in a silver robot suit straight from the archive of Mugler. Zendaya's body-hugging armor outfit with sheer plexiglass inserts has built-in gloves she paired with matching silver heels. While the runway version included a matching headpiece, Zendaya opted for a short sleek hairdo and a blue diamond necklace from Bulgari. Pugh, a newcomer to the world of “Dune” as the Emperor’s daughter, plays Princess Irulan with Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha.

Persons: d’hiver, ”, Denis Villeneuve’s, Mugler, Law Roach, Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Rebecca Ferguson, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Villeneuve, Chalamet’s Paul Atreides, Zendaya's Chani, Pugh, Irulan, Stellan Skarsgard, Christopher Walken, Charlotte Rampling, Javier Bardem

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Denis Villeneuve doesn’t feel like he came back to Arrakis for “Dune: Part Two.” In his mind, he never left. Photos You Should See View All 21 Images“We all walked at the beginning into this project feeling confident,” Villeneuve said. “Dune: Part Two” cost a reported $122 million to produce and is arriving in theaters not a moment too soon. Christopher Nolan recently compared it to “The Empire Strikes Back.” Villeneuve demurred, but the internet went wild. “I think that’s the way movies will survive.”

Persons: — Denis Villeneuve doesn’t, ”, Frank Herbert’s, David Lean, Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch, ” Villeneuve, Greig Fraser, they’d, Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides, Paul, Jessica, Rebecca Ferguson, Villeneuve, Chalamet, “ Denis, ” Chalamet, “ It’s, Josh Brolin, Sicario, Gurney Halleck, Coen, I’ve, ” Brolin, it's, “, he’s, Hans Zimmer, ’ ” Villeneuve, it’s, Christopher Nolan, ” Nolan, Herbert Organizations: ANGELES, Associated Press Locations: Arrakis, Budapest, Wadi Rum, Abu Dhabi, ”, Hollywood

☆ Paris 2024 Olympic medals to feature iron from the Eiffel Tower
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The medals at this year’s Olympics in Paris were not only inspired by the Eiffel Tower — they each contain an original piece of the 19th-century landmark. The design was overseen by French jeweler Chaumet, whose parent company LVMH signed a major sponsorship deal with Paris 2024 last summer. The Paralympics medal, meanwhile, is decorated with a graphical representation of the Eiffel Tower, as if viewed from below. From right: Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris 2024 Olympics organising committee on the Eiffel Tower with French cyclist Marie Patouillet, fencer Sara Balzer and athlete Arnaud Assoumani holding Olympic and Paralympic Games medals. In a statement announcing the designs, Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet said the decision represented a “coming together” of the two events.

Persons: Chaumet, LVMH, Benoit Tessier Benoit Tessier, Clémentine Massonnat, Schaller, ” Massonnat, Tony Estanguet, Marie Patouillet, Sara Balzer, Arnaud Assoumani, Benoit Tessier, ”, Massonnat, Mathieu Lehanneur’s, Louis Vuitton, Moët Hennessy Organizations: CNN, Eiffel, Paris, Nike, Paralympic Games, Chaumet’s, Paralympic, Reuters, Olympic, Olympics, Dior Locations: Paris, Athens, French

☆ Whose Last Show Is It, Anyway?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Laura Collins-Hughes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Outside the big, tall windows of Ellen Maddow and Paul Zimet’s Manhattan loft, in a former garment factory on Mercer Street in SoHo, is a slice of the New York skyline: up close, rooftops of old brick buildings, solid as can be; farther off, glass towers — taller, sleeker, colder, newer. In a city forever in flux, Maddow, 75, and Zimet, 81, have stayed put for half a century, creating experimental theater in the skylighted boho oasis that cost $7,000 to buy in 1973, and where they raised their family. Having arrived in the neighborhood when it was scary-scruffy, long before it went way upscale, they have remained stubbornly devoted to each other, and to their venerably niche downtown company, Talking Band, which turns 50 this year. That kind of history can sound utopian from the outside. But misunderstanding is a risk they’re taking, cautiously, with “The Following Evening,” a new play in which they portray slightly fictionalized versions of themselves, in slightly fictionalized versions of their lives.

Persons: Ellen Maddow, Paul Zimet’s, Maddow Locations: Paul Zimet’s Manhattan, SoHo, York

☆ Met Opera Taps Its Endowment Again to Weather Downturn
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Javier C. Hernández | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The move came after the Met took $30 million from its endowment fund last season to help cover operating expenses amid weak ticket sales and a cash shortfall. Nonprofits usually try to avoid drawing down their endowments, which are meant to grow over time while producing investment income. The Met’s endowment fund is now worth about $255 million, down from $309 million in July. There is light at the end of the tunnel.”The company pointed to several signs that it may be turning the corner. And as the Met presents more contemporary opera, it is attracting younger audiences: The average age of single-ticket buyers for in-person performances has fallen to 44 from 50 before the pandemic.

Persons: we’re, ”, Peter Gelb Organizations: Metropolitan Opera

☆ David Mamet Looks Back on a Long, Contentious Career
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | Photography Pia Riverola For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

David Mamet’s new book, ‘Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood,’ is out Dec. 5. Photo: Pia Riverola for WSJ. MagazineThe cover of David Mamet’s memoir features a drawing of a pig at a typewriter. It hints at the irreverent, even incendiary, tone of the pages that follow in his new book, “Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood,” which is out Dec. 5. Mamet, who also drew the cartoons, uses the book to sound off about the entertainment industry.

Persons: David Mamet’s, ’, Pia Riverola, Mamet Locations: Hollywood

☆ Look of the Week: Timothée Chalamet wears shirtless suit at ‘Wonka’ premiere
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“I don’t know what the hell I was doing wearing this.”But Chalamet has long relied on the wow factor of a shirtless suit for red carpet engagements. Chalamet's magenta velvet suit was from Tom Ford's latest collection. Jean-Paul Gaultier's "Pin Up Boys" from the 1996 season were early examples of the shirtless suit on the runway. In Gaultier’s infamous Spring-Summer 1996 collection, titled “Pin-Up Boys,” the shirtless suit was gauche, cheesy and even funny. For Chalamet, shirtlessness is fast becoming a state of mind.

Persons: CNN —, Wonka, Tom Ford’s, “, ”, Chalamet, Louis, Timothée Chalamet, Luca, Haider Ackerman, Tom Ford's, Jeff Spicer, photocall, Hugh Grant, Rowan Aktinson, Olivia Coleman, Alexander McQueen pinstripe, Lil Nas, Jonah Hill, Donald Glover, Jay, Harry Styles, Dior, Van Noten, Thom Browne, Paul Smith, Zegna, Porter, Jean, Paul Gaultier's, Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Raf Simons Organizations: CNN, Venice Film Locations: Venice, London

☆ 700 Paintings, 45 Galleries: A Guide to the Met’s New European Wing
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Jason Farago | More About Jason Farago | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Five years after the Metropolitan Museum of Art set off on a major renovation of its galleries for European painting, the super-prime real estate at the top of its grand staircase is open again. Down in the galleries, the Met’s designers have widened the rooms, rearranged the sightlines, shellacked the walls purple and blue. The curators have reassembled the whole painting collection for the first time since 2018, shuffled across 45 new galleries and bathed in beautifully tempered light. (When it comes to light, this New Amsterdam institution definitely leans more Dutch than Italian.) Duccio’s break-the-bank Madonna and Child, painted in Tuscany around 1300, now shares a case with Ingres’s painting of the same subject from 1852.

Persons: Beyer Blinder Belle, Truman, Bacon, Beckmann, Kerry James Marshall, You’ll Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Met Locations: New Amsterdam, Italy, France, Spain, zigzags, Tuscany

☆ Northern Taurids: Meteor shower could produce fireball display
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The Taurid meteor shower is not quite finished, with one of its two streams set to peak this weekend. When the Northern Taurids, an annual minor shower, is at its most active, sky-gazers could catch sight of a bright meteor or two streaking across the night sky. The Northern Taurids are expected to peak at around 7:21 p.m. Stemming from a parent comet called Encke, both Taurid showers typically produce low rates of five meteors per hour. When these celestial objects, known as the Encke Complex, take their orbital journey around the sun, they leave a debris trail that appears as the Taurid meteor showers when Earth’s orbit intersects with their path.

Persons: Bill Cooke, ” Cooke, “, Cooke, Encke, ●, Geminids, Ursids Organizations: CNN, Southern, NASA, Northern, American Meteor Society, Farmers Locations: Meteoroid

☆ Southern Taurid meteor shower: See fireballs in the sky when it peaks this weekend
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The first branch of the Taurid meteor showers is set to peak this weekend, presenting an enticing opportunity for patient sky-gazers. Southern Taurid meteors have been blazing bright across the night sky since late September, but around the peak — expected at 8:47 p.m. Around the shower’s peak, the moon will be nearly half full at 44%, according to the American Meteor Society. During its journey, the comet leaves a trail of debris behind that appears as the Southern Taurid meteor shower when Earth’s orbit intersects with its path. Remaining meteor shower peaks in 2023If observing the Taurids’ peak activity has you eager to see more, several other meteor showers still peak this year.

Persons: ”, Bill Cooke, Cooke, “, —, ” Cooke, Encke, it’s, ●, Geminids, Ursids Organizations: CNN, American Meteor Society, NASA, Meteors, Farmers Locations: . Southern, Southern, Meteoroid

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 10 years after it was first imagined as an opera, “Grounded” is ready to take flight. With music by Jeanine Tesori and a libretto adapted by George Brant from his own play, “Grounded” tells the story of an F-16 fighter pilot who becomes pregnant and leaves the service. The opera has its world premiere at the Washington National Opera on Saturday, with performances continuing through Nov. 13. And next fall it will open the season at the Metropolitan Opera, which commissioned the work. “It’s not a story about, Oh it’s really hard to be a woman in a man’s world,” Cremo said.

Persons: Jeanine Tesori, George Brant, Paul Cremo, It’s, “, Millie ”, Jeanine, we’ve, ” Cremo, it’s, That’s, ” Brant, Cremo, he’d, ”, Tesori, Brant, —, Jess, Eric, Michael Mayer, Mimi Lien, ” Lien, Emily D’Angelo, ” D’Angelo, can’t, Daniela Candillari, ” Candillari, ” Critics, WNO Organizations: WASHINGTON, Washington National Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Dynamics Locations: Nevada, Manhattan, Canadian, Eric’s, Wyoming, “, New York

London CNN —London’s Metropolitan Police said it has launched an investigation into allegations of “non-recent” sexual offenses in the United Kingdom, after a joint investigation by British media outlets revealed the comedian Russell Brand was accused of rape and sexual assault. “We have also received a number of allegations of sexual offences committed elsewhere in the country and will investigate these. One of the women said she was 16 and Brand was 31 at the time of the alleged assault in London. The Met announced last week that they were investigating an allegation of sexual assault in 2003. Without naming Brand, a Met spokesperson said: “We are aware of reporting by The Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches about allegations of sexual offenses.

Persons: Russell Brand, “, Brand, Andy Furphy, ” Brand, James Manning, Covid, Downing, ”, Rishi Sunak’s Organizations: London CNN — London’s Metropolitan Police, British, Sunday Times, Met’s, Crime Command, Park, AP Brand, YouTube, The Times, CNN, Police, Met Police, ”, The Met, The Sunday Times, Met Locations: United Kingdom, London, Los Angeles, Soho

☆ Manet and Degas: A Masterful Pas de Deux at the Met
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Holland Cotter | More About Holland Cotter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

And if gestures of tribute speak louder than words, Degas made a powerful one. In his increasingly reclusive later years he set about assembling a personal collection of Manet’s work, a sampling of which, in a section called “Degas after Manet,” concludes the show. The painting was so polemically pointed that Manet had to keep it hidden in storage. Degas and Manet, at the start of their careers, first met in the galleries of a grand public museum. In the end, they kept company in a small private one, the shadowy rooms of Degas’s Paris apartment.

Persons: Degas, “ Degas, Manet, ”, Berthe Morisot, Bizet’s, Carmen ”, Maximilian, Austrian archduke, Napoleon III Locations: Austrian, Mexico, London, Paris

☆ Nairy Baghramian: Rubble Rouser Outside the Met
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Roberta Smith | More About Roberta Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

That is, the four domed niches embedded in the neo-Classical facade of the Met’s main entrance on Fifth Avenue. Each niche frames a plinth and is in turn framed by a pair of robust columns two stories high. The three artists chosen thus far — Wangechi Mutu, Carol Bove and Hew Locke — have done well enough, but it may be best to lower expectations. The Met’s facade is an oppressive windmill to tilt at. All use the past to enliven the sculptural present, erase boundaries between styles and cultures and employ new materials and techniques.

Persons: Mutu, Carol Bove, Hew Locke —, Huma Bhabha, Leilah Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Center Locations: New York, Iranian, Berlin, Europe, Dallas

☆ The Met Commissions an Opera About Abducted Ukrainian Children
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Javier C. Hernández | More About Javier C. Hernández | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Metropolitan Opera announced Monday that it had commissioned a new opera about Russia’s abduction and deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children, the latest action by the company to show support for war-torn Ukraine. The work, which will be written by the Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets, with a libretto by the American playwright George Brant, tells the story of a mother who makes a long and perilous trip to rescue her daughter, who is being held at a camp inside Crimea. While the characters in the opera are fictional, the story is based on real-life accounts by Ukrainian mothers who have described making the harrowing 3,000-mile journey from Ukraine into Russian-occupied territory, and back again, to recover their children from the custody of the Russian authorities. Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, said the aim was to “support Ukraine culturally in its fight for freedom.”

Persons: Maxim Kolomiiets, George Brant, Peter Gelb, ” Organizations: Metropolitan Opera Locations: Ukraine, Ukrainian, American, Crimea, Russian

CNN —UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he raised his “very strong concerns” to China’s premier regarding potential Chinese interference in British democracy after a parliament employee was arrested on suspicion of spying for China. UK newspaper, The Sunday Times broke the story on Sunday, reporting that the researcher was arrested alongside another man on March 13. According to a statement from London’s Metropolitan Police, police arrested a man in his 30s in Oxfordshire, southern England, and a man in his 20s in Edinburgh, Scotland. Chinese Premier Li Qiang attends the ASEAN Summit in Jakarta on September 7, 2023. According to the Sunday Times reporting, the arrested parliamentary researcher was also linked to the chairperson of the British government’s foreign affairs committee, Alicia Kearns.

Persons: Rishi Sunak, Sunak, Premier Li Qiang, Tom Tugendhat, Li Qiang, Yasuyoshi Chiba, Alicia Kearns, ”, Kearns Organizations: CNN —, Premier, Conservative, Sunday Times, London’s Metropolitan Police, ASEAN Summit, Getty, Command, Twitter, Inter, Parliamentary Alliance, China Locations: China, New Delhi, Beijing, Oxfordshire, England, Edinburgh, Scotland, Jakarta, AFP, London, British, People’s Republic of China

☆ Newly discovered Comet Nishimura will soon swing by Earth
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —A newly discovered comet will be visible at times as it flies by Earth next week. Japanese space photographer Hideo Nishimura first observed Comet Nishimura in early August as he was taking images of the night sky, according to EarthSky. Comet Nishimura can bee seen as a faint green dot in the sky over L'Aquila, Italy, on September 7. “Unless it becomes quite a bit brighter than expected, it will likely not be visible.”What’s next for Comet NishimuraGiven how closely Comet Nishimura will pass by the sun, it’s possible the intense heat might destroy it. If you miss the chance to see Comet Nishimura, there are several comets expected to appear in the night sky in the next 16 months, Hale said.

Persons: Hideo Nishimura, Comet Nishimura, Alan Hale, Comet Hale, Bopp, Nishimura, Dr, Paul Chodas, would’ve, Hale, Chodas, Dave Schleicher, Schleicher, Manuel Romano, ” Hale, What’s, ” Chodas, Comet Pons, Brooks, Comet Olbers Organizations: CNN, Earthrise, NASA’s Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lowell Observatory, Northern, Sun Locations: Pasadena , California, Arizona, L'Aquila, Italy

☆ 81st Street Studio, a Garden of Artful Delight
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Laurel Graeber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But maybe most intriguing are two round screens, each featuring a blinking, animated eye. When a child approaches a screen, the eye shuts, and images from the Met’s collection take its place. The other eye screen, at toddler level, reveals images from modern video art. By turning dials, visitors can change variables like shadow, color, angle and distance and see how they affect the objects pictured. Art and science intersect again in the music station, whose instruments might seem more appropriate for Dr. Seuss than for a symphony.

Persons: ”, Nina Callaway, we’re, ” Holder, Seuss, Kip Washio Organizations: Yamaha

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