The controversy-wracked Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) named the winners of the 2022 Golden Globes via Twitter on Sunday night (U.S. time), with no media in attendance or celebrities walking the red carpet like in the past. The .
It’s finally official:
Gov. Gavin Newsom will face a recall election in the fall.
Newsom is only the second governor in California history and the fourth in U.S. history to face a recall election. The first election to recall a California governor was in 2003, when voters recalled Democratic Gov. Gray Davis from office and elected Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger, the last Republican to serve as the state’s chief executive.
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As my Sacramento colleagues Phil Willon and Taryn Luna report, barring intervention by the courts, Newsom will face a statewide vote of confidence by year’s end.
Ladies and gentleman, the weekend. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and art historical dog paintings.
You down with NFT?
A single living artist. A major auction house. A sale that represented “a bold challenge to an entrenched system of representation by prominent art dealers.”
I’m not talking about last months’s auction at
Christie’s, in which the artist known as
Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) sold a digital collage linked to an
NFT token for a brain-blasting $69.3 million. (Though I’ll get to that in a minute.) Go back, instead, to the fall of 2008, when Lehman Bros. was disintegrating, the Dow was in freefall and Young British Artist