Culture

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at one of her morning press conferences, in 2024.

Mexico's Senate passes the so-called "anti-meme law", and Sheinbaum says it bans no memes at all

The artist Christine Sun Kim, one of the 20 MacArthur fellows named for 2026, in a portrait taken in 2022.

MacArthur Fellows

Twenty MacArthur fellows get $800,000 each, with no project to deliver and no report to file

The building in Meguro, Tokyo, that houses the Intellectual Property High Court and the Nakameguro branch of the Tokyo District Court, in 2023.

Artificial intelligence

Tokyo court rules a performer's voice is protected by publicity rights in TikTok AI cloning case

Kehinde Wiley at the State Department in Washington on January 21, 2015, the day he received the department's Medal of Arts.

Art in Embassies

Kehinde Wiley asks Trump to sell him back the painting pulled from the US embassy in Santo Domingo

The square in front of the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), in northern England, seen from the museum's roof in 2009.

Turner Prize 2026 exhibition opens in Middlesbrough with four shortlisted artists and a December winner

The north front of the White House in Washington, D.C., in 2013. The current advertising campaign is being paid for out of federal funds.

Government advertising

A 2024 Trump campaign ad is back on air, and this time the disclaimer says "Paid for by the U.S. Government"

The National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Washington Monument on the National Mall, in September 2016, the month the museum opened.

The Smithsonian's African American museum turns 10 and says it has not changed a single exhibition

The globe at the entrance to Universal Studios Hollywood, in 2009.

Universal becomes the first studio to pass $5 billion at the 2026 global box office

British director Mike Leigh at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2024.

Mike Leigh wins the Golden Shell in San Sebastián with what he says is his final film

Carlo Petrini, then president of Slow Food, in Brazil in July 2015, at the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Brazilian government and the international association.

Turin hosts the first Terra Madre without Carlo Petrini, in the year Slow Food turns 40

The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse on Constitution Avenue in Washington, seat of the federal district court that ordered the press passes restored, photographed in July 2026.

Judge orders the White House to return press passes to CNN, MS NOW and Politico

The Melrose Gate entrance to the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood, Los Angeles, photographed in 2014. The settlement bars the company from selling the lot for at least five years.

Paramount settles with 12 states and clears the last obstacle to its Warner takeover

The New York City Criminal Courts Building at 100 Centre Street in Manhattan, which houses Criminal and Supreme Court courtrooms and the Manhattan district attorney's offices, photographed in 2013.

Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 15 years for the 2006 assault of Miriam Haley

1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York, home to Fox Corporation and News Corp.

Delaware judge orders Fox to give its own shareholders about 700 documents mentioning "phone hacking"

Andrey Zvyagintsev with the Cannes Grand Prix for “Minotaur” in May 2026.

Russia labels Andrey Zvyagintsev a "foreign agent" after he urged Putin to end the war at Cannes

The north entrance of the Walt Disney Company headquarters in Burbank, California.

Disney asks a federal judge to stop the FCC's early review of ABC's broadcast licenses

The sign on the front of the Kennedy Center in Washington, still largely covered on June 26, 2026, twelve days after Donald Trump's name was removed from it.

Judge orders 30 days' notice before any demolition at the Kennedy Center, a day after it shut its doors

Works on show at ArtRio 2026, at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, on 16 September 2026

ArtRio brings 78 galleries to the Marina da Glória, with new works by Adriana Varejão and Gabriel Massan

Macklemore performing at the Brixton Academy in London in April 2018.

Finneas, Lukas Graham and other openers quit Ed Sheeran's tour after Macklemore is dropped over "Free Palestine" remarks

Video: "Feito Pipa" teaser on Deberton Filmes' Instagram. Cover photo: a scene from the film

Video: Allan Deberton's "Feito Pipa" picked as Brazil's Oscar 2027 entry