Edvard Munch's famed 1895 pastel of "The Scream" sells for $119.9 million, becoming the world's most expensive work of art ever to sell at auction.
Frances Bean Cobain, not Courtney Love, controls Kurt Cobain's likeness.
Ashton Kutcher puts on brownface for Popchips ad.
Nicolas Sarkozy fails to floor Francois Hollande in French vote duel.
The world's tallest buildings.
Inside the wild life of Kim Dotcom.
Ann Hornaday and David Sterritt discuss Shirley Clarke's The Connection.
Photos from Kraftwerk's eight nights of performances at MoMA.
Jennifer Lynch's Chained is slapped with NC-17 rating.
Listen to a track by Alexandre Desplat from the Moonrise Kingdom soundtrack.
Salman Rushdie sticks up for Christopher Hitchens.
The Tony Awards announced its nominees this morning.
The MTV Movie Awards have also announced its nominees.
And the Webby Awards have declared their winners. Congrats to all those who bought their nominations. More from The Hollywood Reporter.
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Emily Nussbaum on the graphic arts of Game of Thrones.
Rupert Murdoch is unfit to run a major international company.
With an asterisk, World Trade Center is back on top in NYC.
The New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones, who was allowed to see Kraftwerk at MoMA, explains how the pop band ended up at the museum.
Sad New Yorkers and longtime listeners called into 98.7 Kiss FM for the last time yesterday, as the iconic station switched off its transmission at midnight to make way for sports talk radio.
In French election, sobriety is new sign of times.
Una Noche director Lucy Mulloy supports defecting Cuban actors.
One of the films on Steven Shaviro's list is also on mine.
The jury has spoken! Top winners in the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival Awards include War Witch, The World Before Her, Una Noche, and Wavumba.
How Samuel L. Jackson became his own genre.
How Washington went soft on childhood obesity.
NBC fires Miami reporter over edited 911 call in Trayvon Martin case.
Chloë Sevigny in talks for season two of American Horror Story.
Martin Scorsese sure is guzzling the 3D Kook-Aid.
J. Hoberman regards Luis Buñuel.
The makers of the 2Pac hologram are threatening to bring other dead celebrities to the touring circuit.
Everyone freak out. The fickle job market is still fickle.
David Carr has a chat with Todd Solondz.
Morrissey, patron saint of gay Mexican Americans, may be reforming the Smiths for a major fall tour. Or not.
Click here to see the first pictures of Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.
An interactive look at all the candidates Mitt Romney slayed on his way to the Republican presidential nomination.
New music from The Avalanches?
It should have been number one.
Eugene Hernandez remembers Amos Vogel.
The Outer Critics Circle Awards announce their nominees.
How the Huffington Post ate the Internet.
Rupert Murdoch, a portrait of Satan.
A telegram from Hitchcock to Truffaut.
Jon Caramanica of the New York Times feels HBO's Girls is too white.
This year's Drama League Awards nominees have beeen announced.
Cannes announces two more lineups: Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week.
Nicolas Cage is big; it's the pictures that got small.
David Thomson explains how The Godfather was diminished by its state-of-the-art restoration.
Charlie Kaufman to adapt The Knife of Never Letting Go, the first book in Patrick Ness's young-adult Chaos Walking trilogy.
Google is preparing to roll out an online storage service.
R. Emmet Sweeney checks out the Whitney Biennial film and video program.
Oddly, it surprised the makers of Una Noche that two of the film's stars would use the chance to come to the United States for the Tribeca Film Festival as an opportunity to defect from Cuba.
IMAX strikes back.
Daniel Kasman presents a collage of images from Deep Red the illuminates Dario Argento's grandiose flair for the design and architecture of terror.
The Simpsons knock Fox News.
And Michael Moore says a hacking scandal could hit the network.
CinemaCon 2012 to preview Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.
Listen to Fiona Apple's new single, "Every Single Night," here.
A most intimate bond.
The top 45 releases of Record Store Day 2012.
Adele, LMFAO, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Lil Wayne lead the finalists for the 2012 Billboard Music Awards.
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio commit to The Wolf of Wall Street.
Check out the new issue of Cinema Scope.
What happened to Etan Patz?
Happy birthday, Jiroemon Kimura.
The Cannes Film Festival unveils its official selection.
Dick Clark, the perpetually youthful-looking TV host whose long-running song-and-dance fest, American Bandstand, did as much as anyone or anything to advance the influence of teenagers and rock 'n' roll on American culture, died on Wednesday in Santa Monica, California. He was 82.
An appreciation of Clark's life from Matt Zoller Seitz.
What American Horror Story's second season will look like is beginning to come into focus.
Greg Ham of Men at Work was found dead in his Melbourne home on Thursday. He was 58.
Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master is about...something.
The 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine.
U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers.
Part one of Olaf Möller's look at the globe-spanning work of Michael Glawogger.
More from Nick Pinkerton.
The genius of Alfred Hitchcock...in pictures.
Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris reacts to winning the Pulitzer.
An exhibition celebrates the 20th anniversary of David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
Yesterday, the Pulitzer Prize winners were announced...
...and the jurors are shocked that no fiction prize was awarded.
Is it bad to nominate yourself for an award?
Five things you may not know about Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life.
Mike D'Angelo takes the scenic route again, this time toward The French Connection.
Click here for the films selected to be part of Cannes' Short Film Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection.
Hole's Eric Erlandson says Kurt Cobain recorded a full solo album before he died.
Quentin Tarantino reveals Django Unchained synopsis.
Memorial ceremony marks the RMS Titanic's 100th anniversary.
Google fined $25,000 for impeding FCC investigation.
"Pink slime" controversy stokes clash over agriculture.
Are we any closer to a stunt coordinator Oscar category?
A few good men are being eyed to direct Catching Fire.
What Mad Men shows about American pop culture.
Christopher Nolan is a tradionalist.
The 100 best horror films as voted by over 100 experts including Simon Pegg and Roger Corman.
David Ehrenstein presents...Derek Jarman Day.
Caine Monroy has more than $100k toward his future.
Frances Cobain feels Twitter should ban her "biological mother."
Carrie remake starring Chloe Moretz goes to prom on March 15, 2013.
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