Artists & Personalities

Tyran Lee Ingram: “Thank the Lord” From Camouflage Walls and Sleeping Outside to the Walk of Fame

September 14, 2026

By: Sujan Pariyar In the heart of Hollywood, where dreams are sold by the square foot, and most stories never leave the sidewalk, one man stands out not for polished fame but for raw, unfiltered perseverance. Tyran Lee Ingram’s journey stretches from the quiet streets of South Bend and Elkhart to the glittering, unforgiving Walk of Fame. A former Army National Guard member, Christian high school graduate, and self-taught musician, he has slept outside to pay for studio time, held cardboard signs for spare change, and still managed to place his song “Thank the Lord” on international platforms. His remarkable work and humble, faith-driven career have already earned him features in LA Magazine, Hollywood Times, and Los Angeles Magazine. While he continues to look ahead with quiet determination to Billboard, Hollywood Reporter, and TMZ, his path has never been easy, yet it has always been guided by faith. In this exclusive conversation, Tyran opens up about the long march that brought him here, and why he still believes the best is yet to come. You say the first song you ever taught yourself was “When the Saints Go Marching In.” Why does that still matter? Tyran Lee Ingram: Because it

Tyran Lee Ingram: “Thank the Lord” From Camouflage Walls and Sleeping Outside to the Walk of Fame

September 14, 2026

By: Sujan Pariyar In the heart of Hollywood, where dreams are sold by the square foot, and most stories never

Patricia Leavy Discusses Art, Love, and Sugar Sand Land

September 12, 2026

A Former Hollywood Production Manager Wrote an Authentic YA Music Industry Novel With a Memorable Young Adult Protagonist at Its Center

September 12, 2026

Never Say Never and Ashley Puckett’s Road From Pittsburgh Dreamer to a New Country Music Chapter

September 12, 2026

Yayoi Kusama Exhibition Opens at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk

September 11, 2026

Beast’s “Want Justice? Here Justice” Makes Memory Part of the Wall

September 10, 2026

At first glance, Louis-Ferdinand Céline appears to have been painted directly into the remains of an abandoned farmhouse in the countryside near Reggio Emilia, Italy. His figure, approximately fifteen metres high and six metres wide, seems to share the building’s cracks, stains and erosion, as though the writer were emerging from the architecture itself. Completed in late August 2026, Want Justice? Here Justice is the latest and largest work in Italian street artist Beast‘s ongoing series “…and we hired a bloke to fix the wall”, developed over the past three years around the relationship between cultural memory and physical decay. Beast’s process begins not with the portrait, but with the wall. The surface is photographed in detail, and its particular scars, cracks, stains, missing plaster, and erosion are digitally transferred onto an image of the chosen subject. The resulting portrait is then printed at monumental scale on paper and pasted back onto precisely the same wall, with the printed imperfections carefully realigned with those of the architecture underneath. The result is an image that almost disappears into the surface supporting it, creating the impression that Céline has emerged from the abandoned farmhouse itself. Rather than hiding the building’s deterioration, Beast

Nathan Fielder’s Secret Documentary Debuts at Telluride

September 9, 2026

Nathan Fielder and filmmaker Lance Oppenheim unveiled their previously secret documentary You Can See Everything at the Telluride Film Festival. The A24 project follows Elizabeth Holmes during the 34 days before her prison reporting date and was developed over three years, with a theatrical release planned for October. Key Takeaways Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim co-directed You Can See Everything. The documentary premiered as a surprise screening at the Telluride Film Festival. The film follows Elizabeth Holmes before she reported to prison. A24 released a teaser for the documentary alongside its Telluride unveiling. The film is scheduled for theatrical release in October. Nathan Fielder Documentary Debuts at Telluride The secret screening at the Telluride Film Festival revealed You Can See Everything, a documentary directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. The project had been made largely in secret and was presented to festival audiences without a conventional advance announcement. The film centers on Elizabeth Holmes, the former Theranos founder, during the 34 days before she was due to report to prison. Fielder and Oppenheim’s cameras document Holmes during that period as she prepared for incarceration. The documentary was developed over three years rather than remaining limited to the period immediately

Sophie Lin: Where Art Flows, Fluid in Form, Limitless in Creation

September 8, 2026

Sophie Lin builds her artistry behind the scenes of the performing arts, where the work rarely gets its own spotlight. Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, and now based in New York City, she has spent her career shaping how performers appear onstage. Her focus sits in makeup and hair for opera, Broadway, and Off-Broadway productions, a craft she treats as painting and sculpting by another name. Her guiding idea comes from a simple phrase: be like water, fluid in form and limitless in creation. That fluidity runs through everything she does, letting her move between disciplines without losing the thread that connects them. Treating the Face as a Living Canvas For Sophie, makeup and hair are forms of painting and sculpting with different canvases and textures. The human face becomes a surface to explore. Hair, wigs, and other materials open their own possibilities for transformation. She adapts her approach to fit each character and each stage, reading what a production needs before she ever picks up a brush. Her recent makeup and hair credits reflect that range. She contributed to DOOM: House of Hope at the Park Avenue Armory, worked across the Santa Fe Opera seasons in 2022 and

Meet Chasing Luena, Melbourne’s Indie Rock Storytellers Making Their Mark

September 6, 2026

For Chasing Luena, a good song starts with something worth saying. The Melbourne four-piece brings together indie rock and folk with raw instrumentation and emotionally honest songwriting, creating music that can hit hard without losing the stories underneath. The band brings together drummer and founder Bill Foster, vocalist Charlotte Glover, bassist Glenn Davidson, and guitarist Patrick Quinlan. Between them sits a wide mix of experience spanning classical percussion, jazz, rock, neo-soul, audio engineering and years of performing. Inspired by the likes of Ball Park Music, Angie McMahon, Ruby Fields and Teenage Dads, they have turned those different backgrounds into a sound centered around personal growth, regret and self-discovery. Live music has become an equally important part of Chasing Luena. Performing together since 2022, the band have appeared at an impressive run of Australian festivals, including St Kilda Festival, Yarraville Festival, Warrandyte Festival and Queenscliff Music Festival. They’ve also supported Budjerah, Jade Gibson, and Wilma Sights. Their growing catalog shows why that momentum is building. “Home” draws inspiration from the band’s Melbourne surroundings, using bikes, tram tracks, shared houses, and changing friendships to explore a bigger question: how sustainable our relationships and lifestyles really are. Eventually, its idea of home grows

Vivian Nicole Tesler Lights Up Las Vegas with “Glow Baby Glow”

September 5, 2026

At its heart, GLOW BABY GLOW is a love letter from Vivian Nicole Tesler to her late mother, the woman whose voice, wisdom, strength, and unwavering belief became the invisible architecture of her life. Her mother was more than a source of encouragement; she was the voice that reminded Tesler of who she was during the moments when she struggled to remember it herself. The title was born from the words her mother gave her, an evolution of “Go, baby, go” into something deeper and more enduring: “Glow, baby, glow.” It is no longer simply an encouragement to move forward. It is a charge to become fully illuminated, to use every gift, survive every darkness, and refuse to diminish the light one was born to carry. That message became even more powerful after loss. What once sounded like encouragement became a philosophy for living. To glow is not to live without pain, fear, disappointment, or uncertainty. It is to allow those experiences to become part of the light rather than the reason for extinguishing it. In bringing these words to the stage, Tesler transforms something deeply personal between a mother and daughter into an invitation for anyone who has ever

Beyoncé Releases Expanded B’Day 20th Anniversary Edition

Beyoncé Releases Expanded B’Day 20th Anniversary Edition

September 5, 2026

Beyoncé has released the B’Day 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, adding six previously unreleased recordings, Spanish-language tracks and collaborations with Maluma and Selena Quintanilla. The 31-track release also includes remastered songs and updated music videos, expanding the original 2006 album with archival material and new recordings. Key Takeaways The B’Day 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition was released September 4, 2026. The digital edition contains 31 tracks, including rare and previously unreleased recordings. The release includes “Cuerpo Tumbao (Get Me Bodied)” featuring Maluma. “Irreplaceable (Como La Flor)” uses previously released Selena Quintanilla vocals with Beyoncé. The album’s songs were remastered, while its videos were recolored and finished in 4K. Beyoncé Releases the B’Day 20th Anniversary Edition The Beyoncé B’Day 20th anniversary release adds new and archival material to the album originally issued on September 4, 2006. The 31-track digital deluxe edition combines the original album with bonus recordings, Spanish-language versions, remixes and newly released collaborations. The anniversary edition includes six previously unreleased recordings: “Morning Dew (Donk),” “Can I Watch You,” “My First Time,” “Lost Yo Mind,” “Creole” and “Back Up.” The tracklist also brings together material that had previously appeared as bonus tracks or related releases. The release follows Beyoncé’s July rollout of

For Dante Nero, Reinvention Has Always Been Part of the Act

September 4, 2026

By: Nadia Kareem The Brooklyn comedian behind Man School 202 has spent decades moving between comedy, acting, radio and relationship media, without ever treating any one version of himself as the final one. Dante Nero has never had much interest in staying inside one box. That can be inconvenient when people ask what he does. Comedian works. Actor works. Podcaster works. Relationship strategist works too. But none of those titles completely explains a career that has unfolded through a series of unexpected reinventions. Long before Nero became the voice behind Man School 202, he was a Brooklyn kid imagining an entirely different future. He studied biology and psychology and once thought he might pursue genetic engineering. He trained in martial arts, competed in fencing, and worked with young people in foster care. Then came New York nightlife. For roughly a decade, Nero worked as a male exotic dancer. He later says he fought bare-knuckle for money and produced large male revue productions before eventually finding the stage that would define much of his professional life. Stand-up comedy. What looks like a collection of unrelated chapters from the outside makes more sense through Nero’s eyes. Every one of them gave him

Continuing to Grow in New York: Huang Xiaoxia’s Dance Practice and Arts Education

September 4, 2026

By: Andre On June 28, 2026, the multimedia live performance SUNGOD (Destiny) was presented at The Sanctuary at St. Paul & St. Andrew in New York as part of the CWP Evolution Festival. Set against the cultural traditions of the Ibaloi people of the Philippines, the work brought contemporary dance, visual media, and live music together in a single performance space and was created by participants from diverse cultural and artistic backgrounds. Huang Xiaoxia participated in the work as a featured performer and choreographic collaborator. With years of experience in dance education and choreography, she continued to explore embodied expression and collaborative creation through this cross-cultural artistic project. Before coming to New York, Huang Xiaoxia spent many years at Tsinghua University teaching and choreographing for students who were not dance majors. Beyond focusing on movement and technical training, her teaching emphasized how students could develop an understanding of themselves and others through embodied experiences and creative processes. During her studies at New York University, she also gained practical experience with the Education Department of the Joyce Theater. Her individual choreographic work, cross-cultural performances, and arts education activities have gradually become important components of her professional practice in New York, allowing

David Bowie Immersive Documentary Debuts at Venice Film Festival

September 3, 2026

David Bowie: Unseen | Unheard is competing in Venice Immersive with more than 800 images from photographer Denis O’Regan’s archive, Bowie recordings and spatial audio. The 25-minute installation shows how O’Regan, Nick Ryan and Joe Crossley are turning two decades of Bowie photography into a timed audiovisual experience. Key Takeaways Bowie: Unseen | Unheard is competing in Venice Immersive during the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, which runs from September 2 to 12, 2026. The 25-minute David Bowie immersive project features more than 800 iconic, rare and previously unseen images from Denis O’Regan’s photographic archive. Denis O’Regan, Nick Ryan and Joe Crossley are credited as directors in the festival’s current project listing. Bowie’s music and original compositions by longtime collaborator Mike Garson accompany a spatial audio soundscape created for the installation. The Venice competition appearance follows an earlier presentation at SXSW London in June 2026. David Bowie Immersive Project Enters the Venice Competition Bowie: Unseen | Unheard has brought more than 800 images of David Bowie into the Venice Immersive competition, transforming photographer Denis O’Regan’s archive into a 25-minute installation combining photography, music, commentary and spatial audio. The UK production is part of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, which

How DEHKO Built Tektroit From Detroit Basements Up

September 3, 2026

The Night the Music Failed DEHKO’s career began with the kind of moment most people would rather forget. At 12, Sam Dehko threw a party for his classmates and hired his best friend’s older brother to DJ. For nearly half the night, the music setup refused to cooperate. The party did not unfold as planned, but Dehko left with a new obsession. He believed he could learn to do it better. His parents backed that curiosity by buying his first setup from the same DJ. He taught himself to mix, scratch and organize music, spending hours learning how a room could change when the right record arrived at the right time. His First Paid Booking At 13, he began testing those skills in real rooms. His first paid booking ran four hours in a basement. His mother drove him there with roughly six large speakers, boxes of cables and the rest of a setup that he carried inside and assembled himself. The pay was modest. The signal was enormous. Someone had paid him for a skill he had built from nothing, and that booking turned a fascination into a pursuit. Detroit Became the Training Ground By 16, Dehko was making

The Forgotten Legacy of Abstract Expressionism

September 2, 2026

A Jackson Pollock painting was recently sold for $181.2 million. A Narducci painting prompts the question: Who is he? The disparity points to one of art’s enduring mysteries: how value is assigned, who receives recognition, and what happens to artists whose work falls outside the machinery that establishes value. In William Boyd’s 1998 book Nat Tate: An American Artist, 1928–1960, readers are introduced to a fictional Abstract Expressionist invented as an elaborate literary hoax. Pietro Antonio Narducci needs no invention. He painted for more than 60 years inside the same circle that produced Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, yet almost nobody has heard his name. Daniel Lerner, who represents the Narducci estate alongside his sister Susan Freeman, wants to change that. He remembers hanging one of Narducci’s paintings after helping the artist’s daughter move out of the family studio. Lerner states, “Every single person who saw it asked, ‘Oh, is that a Pollock?’ and I had to tell them, ‘No, I don’t have a Pollock, but I have a Narducci, who was a member of the founding Abstract Expressionist movement that met at the renowned Cedar Tavern.’” Born in Italy in 1915, Narducci emigrated to the United

Young K. and the Development of Histograph in Contemporary American Art

September 1, 2026

During the late twentieth century, modern American art underwent a dramatic transformation alongside developments in media, photography, and electronic technologies. Artists pushed the boundaries of representing reality, challenging how images influence human perception and how culture reads signs, symbols, and media narratives. The era witnessed increased recognition of the significance of photography and photomontage in framing cultural memory. Critics and institutions alike argued over the degree to which images depict truth or make it up, and how artists manipulate them to imply alternative ways of perceiving the world. Young K., an American contemporary artist, appeared on this changing scene. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts at the California Institute of the Arts, more popularly known as CalArts, one of the most powerful art schools in the United States. Established in 1961 and traditionally known for producing alumni who defined movements in performance, video, and conceptual art, CalArts provided rich ground for Young to hone his craft. His studies there placed him in an institution consistently ranked among the best in art and design, with U.S. News & World Report frequently naming CalArts among the best of its kind. Among Young’s works, his most well-known

Washington, 1975: Everyone Is Pretending to Be Something They Are Not, and Caroline Taylor Has Written a Novel About What Happens When the Faking Finally Runs Out

September 1, 2026

By: Catalina Santorini There is a particular kind of historical fiction that uses its period setting not as decoration but as the actual source of its moral and psychological tension, in which the specific social and political pressures of a specific historical moment create the conditions for a story that could not have unfolded in quite the same way at any other time or place. Caroline Taylor’s The Faker’s Guide to Survival is that kind of fiction, set in Washington, DC in 1975 in the immediate aftermath of the Vietnam War, when the country was still sorting through the wreckage of a decade of conflict and deception, and when the art of faking it, of presenting a face to the world that had little to do with the reality underneath, had become practically a survival skill for anyone caught on the wrong side of the forces at play. Flora has been faking it since she was a teenager, doing what she had to do to protect her mother, maintaining a version of herself carefully constructed for public consumption while the person underneath lived a far more complicated reality. That long-practiced art of strategic self-presentation is about to be tested beyond

Yue Zhou Review, Before The Future Takes Form

August 31, 2026

By: Seetal Solanki When it comes to Yue Zhou’s approach to Before Becoming (2024) and her practice, it’s less about the presence of anticipation as a dramatic action towards a permanent destination than the quiet position of suspense. Her use of oil paint intensifies the presence of these tensions and consolidates them into a place where the threshold before identity is opened up to the future; this begins to wield its authority, all while the shape of that future is unknown. Zhou ultimately generates a fertile space which feels alive and in constant flux, which gets the viewer to overcome the absence as presence. There seems to be no measurable moment with Zhou’s paintings, which depict an environment of two opposing realities – one of wakefulness and the other a dream state. These states are further enhanced by Zhou’s use of muted tones, which set the scene of what would be considered two opposing realities in coexistence with one another, with an interrelatedness. Borderless realities are formed in Zhou’s worldbuilding, which in turn inhabits non-specific ecologies of space where the figures appear to rest effortlessly. This may offer up uncertainty with the viewer, and this is the whole point. When

Harry Styles Opens 30-Show MSG Residency in New York

August 29, 2026

Harry Styles MSG residency has begun a 30-show run at Madison Square Garden that will keep the singer in New York through Oct. 31. Beyond the concerts, the two-month engagement includes venue activations, an East Village pop-up, themed dining and transportation options that extend the event beyond the arena. Key Takeaways Harry Styles is scheduled to perform 30 shows at Madison Square Garden between Aug. 26 and Oct. 31, 2026. The New York engagement represents Styles’ only U.S. dates on the Together, Together tour this year. The residency doubles the 15-night Madison Square Garden run Styles completed in 2022. Official merchandise, photo activations, a separate East Village pop-up and themed food offerings have expanded the fan experience beyond the concerts. Airport shuttle services and nearby businesses have also adapted offerings around the repeated show schedule. Harry Styles MSG residency opened Aug. 26 with an unusually long New York engagement: 30 performances at Madison Square Garden spread across more than two months. The Together, Together dates are scheduled primarily on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 31. According to Madison Square Garden Entertainment, they are Styles’ only U.S. performances on the 2026 tour and represent the highest number of shows at