Missoni, Fendi, Armani look to the future and past

MILAN — Italian brands Missoni and Fendi kicked off the first day of Milan Fashion Week last Wednesday, with designers once again forced to swap the buzzing catwalks for digital presentations due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

The art of giving back: New York painter buys unknown artists’ works

NEW YORK — After two decades of hard work, New York artist Guy Stanley Philoche planned to celebrate the success of his two-day sold-out show at Cavalier Gallery a year ago by buying a $15,000 watch.

Schiaparelli embraces its namesake’s Surrealism

WHAT a weird world we live in —  and a maison thinks we should be weird along with it.

Trump makes political music great again

NEW YORK -- Donald Trump took office vowing to rebuild industry. One where he has already achieved inadvertent success is political music, with songs...

Criminal

VETERAN actors Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, and Tommy Lee Jones star in an Ariel Vromen-megged film about a dangerous criminal into whose brain are implanted...

Your Weekend Guide (July 15, 2016)

EXHIBITS The Cultural Center of the Philippines presents Myth, a photo exhibition by artists Jippy Pascua and Dennese Victoria, which is on view until Aug....

Your Weekend Guide (May 19, 2016)

PERFORMANCE THE Philippine Madrigal Singers and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) present Spirit of ASEAN, The Madz et Al Choral Festival 2017, with...

Rapper defiantly stares at eclipse, cancels shows

NEW YORK – For a rapper whose debut single was called “Unorthodox,” Joey Bada$$ isn’t one to accept conventional wisdom. Defying widespread warnings, he...

Metallica wins 2018 Polar Music Prize

STOCKHOLM — American heavy metal band Metallica was awarded Sweden’s Polar Music Prize on Wednesday, drawing a delighted response from the group which has...

David Byrne brings cheer with vision of US ‘utopia’

NEW YORK — Artists and scholars have been churning out dystopian visions since the rise of Donald Trump, but David Byrne is defiantly chipper. The...

Warner Bros unveils $1-B indoor theme park in UAE

ABU DHABI — The fantasy worlds inhabited by Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman merged with glitzy reality in the UAE on Wednesday, as Warner Bros opened a sprawling indoor theme park in Abu Dhabi.

Roseanne says tweet ‘cost me everything’

LOS ANGELES — Comedian Roseanne Barr apologized on Thursday for her controversial Twitter comment that caused the cancellation of her US comedy show Roseanne, but insisted she had been misunderstood and said the mistake “cost me everything.