A24 is getting into the restaurant business at its newly opened off-Broadway theater.
A24 has expanded its reach beyond film with the opening of Wild Cherry, a restaurant inside its newly restored Cherry Lane Theatre in the West Village. The space, designed by Zeb Stewart, transforms a former black-box theater into a 45-seat dining room with green banquettes, checkered floors, and subtle cherry motifs. Chefs Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr, known for Frenchette,Minetta Tavern, and Le Veau d’Or, created a menu that blends raw bar plates with supper-club staples like kielbasa, steak dinners, and a new cheeseburger. Open for pre-theater service and late-night dining, Wild Cherry adds a culinary layer to A24’s growing cultural footprint.
Pussy Riot doubles down on anti-war messaging after their in absentia prison sentence.
Pussy Riot said it will continue its anti-war activism after five members received prison sentences in absentia from a Moscow court. Members Maria Alyokhina, Diana Burkot, Taso Pletner, Olga Borisova, and Alina Petrova were convicted over a 2022 music video and a 2024 performance criticizing Russia’s war in Ukraine. Burkot described the sentences as disproportionate and intended to intimidate artists, noting that violent offenders in Russia often receive shorter terms. The collective stated it will keep using music and performance to challenge the Kremlin despite the legal pressure.
At its Houston debut, this underground performance installation was the highlight of Untitled.
At Untitled Art’s first Houston edition, the standout work took place beneath the city rather than in the fair’s booths. Lita Albuquerque staged The Sea Is Within Me inside Buffalo Bayou Park’s underground cistern, leading small groups through a meditation before introducing a performance that blended light, sound, and movement. Opera singer Carmina Escobar’s soaring and anguished vocals intertwined with dancer Jasmine Albuquerque’s physical shifts between joy and struggle, while a cello underscored the exchanges. The 25-minute work left audiences immersed in an elemental dialogue of water, voice, and body that many hailed as the highlight of the fair.
In the final quarter of its fiscal year, MyTheresa reported profitable growth.
MyTheresa closed its fiscal year with a 12 percent rise in net sales to $290 million and a 52 percent jump in adjusted earnings, underscoring steady profitability. The German e-tailer credited exclusive collaborations with labels such as Dolce & Gabbana and Alaïa, along with high-touch experiences for its top clients, as key growth drivers. Parent company LuxExperience saw its stock climb following the report but faces pressure to revive newly acquired Yoox-Net-a-Porter and Mr Porter, both of which logged sales declines. Executives signaled that 2026 will serve as a reset year as the group works toward a long-term revenue target of $4.7 billion by 2030.
A Frida Kahlo self-portrait is headed to auction at Sotheby’s, where it could shatter sales records.
Frida Kahlo’s 1940 self-portrait El sueño (La cama) will headline Sotheby’s November sale in New York with an estimate of $40 million to $60 million. The painting, last seen publicly in the 1990s, depicts the artist lying in bed beneath a dynamite-strapped skeleton and could eclipse the auction record for a female artist, set in 2014 with Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1. Kahlo’s current high at auction stands at $34.9 million for Diego and I, sold in 2021. The work will tour London, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, and Paris before the auction, part of a larger offering of surrealist art from an undisclosed private collection.
Today’s attractive distractions:
An international research study suggests Studio Ghibli films improve mood.
Hey, there are superheroes at the Metropolitan Opera House.
And, “Rossini’s version of Cinderella” is on at the English National Opera.
Even today, the question of where to put one’s TV persists.
