Auction for Shohei Ohtani's 50/50 ball goes live as fans fight over who owns it toggle caption Marta Lavandier/AP When MLB superstar Shohei Ohtani hit his 50th homerun last week, fans in the stands pushed and shoved to claim the milestone baseball. On Thursday, a Florida judge ruled that the auction can go on amid an ongoing lawsuit but the …
"Even if relationships are destructive, people cling together," photographer Nan Goldin writes in the introduction to the 1996 edition of her seminal monograph The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, originally published in 1986. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, the unflinching, Oscar-nominated documentary helmed by Laura Poitras, is also about a "struggle between autonomy and dependency" – one waged by Goldin …
Editor’s Note: Keeping you in the know, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for timely books to read, films to watch and podcasts and music to listen to. In that way, Poitras’ now Oscar-nominated documentary, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” began in the hands of its subject — and much like one of Goldin’s own artworks, it …
