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Entertainment Spotlight: KJ Smith, Sistas

We sat down with KJ Smith, star of Tyler Perry's Sistas on BET, to chat about life, mental health, friendship, and getting to know the characters she plays.

Exploded Console Posters made by Angerinet

Life imitates art again.

‘Squid Game’ Halloween Costumes Banned At NY-Area Schools After Kids Mimic Netflix Show’s Competitions At Recess

Americans watched 3 billion minutes of Netflix’s blockbuster hit Squid Game last week. Some of those viewers, apparently, were kids who now are clamoring for Squid-related Halloween costumes.

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Hotfix 1.21 for Cyberpunk 2077 is live on PC, consoles and Stadia!

In this update we focused on further improving the overall stability of the game and fixing the most common issues that could block progression.

Read more details on our website.

In anticipation of the (now virtual) New York Caribbean Week and the annual Labor Day Parade, this August we’re highlighting artworks in the Museum’s collection that celebrate the presence of Caribbean culture and its diasporas.

Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson uses lavish surfaces and verdant motifs to entice viewers to contemplate not only the power of beauty and fashion but also historical and contemporary violence against Black bodies. In the monumental three-channel video installation …three kings weep…, a trio of towering young men shed tears as they sit silently before a backdrop of floral wallpaper and fluttering artificial butterflies. The videos play backwards, and as a result the initially shirtless men appear to be slowly dressing themselves in colorful clothing with mixed patterns and gleaming jewelry that draw on the styles of dancehall culture and carnival costuming. Silence is intermittently interrupted by the voice of a boy reciting “If We Must Die,” a sonnet that Jamaican-born writer Claude McKay published in 1919 after a summer of intense racial terror and resistance across the United States. In the final seconds of the more than eight-minute-long triptych, as the men’s sartorial performance ends, each proudly crowns himself with a bandana, a bucket hat, and a pair of reflective glasses, respectively. As in McKay’s poem, these three kings are ready to fight for their dignity. 

Come view this work, along with other videos from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, starting September 9 in an upcoming outdoor screening series—stay tuned for details!

Posted by Drew Sawyer Ebony G. Patterson (Jamacian, born 1981). ... three kings weep … (excerpt), 2018. Three channel digital color video projection with sound, 8 minutes 34 seconds Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Contemporary Art Committee and purchase gift of Carla Chammas and Judi Roaman, 2019.11. © artist

TV Shows

Week Ending May 31st, 2021

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir +1

The Eurovision Song Contest -1

Powerpuff Girls

9-1-1 +4

Lucifer

Supernatural -2

Shadow and Bone -4

Amphibia -2

The Owl House -4

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier -1

Castlevania -4

Blue's Clues

The Bad Batch -2

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Doom At Your Service

The Umbrella Academy

Danny Phantom +1

Hannibal -6

Friends: The Reunion

wtFOCK -3

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous week. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last week.

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This is sooo wrong of us Tumblr. Funny though 😋

The Gif Set

The gif set is one of Tumblr’s most renowned native flora. Its essential orderly cellular structure, each gif divided from the other by a neat strip of white space, is unmistakable.

Prior to the emergence of the gif set, Tumblr users were restricted to one image per post. Hard to imagine now!

Once unbound, creativity reached an apex. Able to capture fleeting moments and showcase them in alignment, the linear strictures of digital video were broken down. Gif-makers built a craft out of beautifying and arranging their instances of choice.

This is a prime example of Tumblr’s unique and irreplaceable ecology. Where else can one access the nearly limitless possibilities a gif set provides?

Images in motion propagate widely without any limits in many many places, but only on Tumblr are they able to all be viewed at once, in full. This simultaneity-simulacrum, silent but evocative—I believe it to be a pillar of Tumblr’s continued survival.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 11 Teaser

Premieres Oct 24, 2021 on HBO Max.