Blackpink member LISA is set to star in Netflix's upcoming action thriller Tygo. The singer will feature alongside Korean action star Don Lee and Squid Game actor Lee Jin-uk. The project is an expansion of the streaming giant's Extraction franchise, leveraging the expertise of Korean cinema.The franchise is Netflix's most successful action segment and has already set global streaming records. Its first impressive film was viewed by 90 million households in the first month, with the sequel remain...

Following art weeks in London, Paris, Hong Kong and other major cities with a cultural pulse, the global art circuit reaches its glittering finale in Miami, arguably the splashiest stop of them all. From December 5 to 7, the city hosted its annual marathon of luxury-soaked events, boundary-pushing installations and an ocean of VVIPs. The champagne was flowing, the celebs were glowing and the interns were schmoozing.This year, preparations collided with Thanksgiving, adding a fresh layer of chaos...

The literary world can, at times, feel a little siloed: the intense intellectual pursuit of a traditional book club on one side, and the spontaneous, late-night conversations among friends on the other. But for Kya Buller and Sophia Wild, the Manchester-based co-founders of The Read Room, that line has been joyfully blurred. What began seven years ago as a private ritual (swapping their favorite reads between “ricocheting shots of tequila in a shadowed corner of a bar”) has turned into a sol...

Different continents, different cultural contexts, born one year apart, this is Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo. For the first time, the NGV museum in Melbourne is bringing together the two fashion iconoclasts in one exhibition.The British designer and the Japanese designer (of Comme Des Garçons) were radical rule breakers, subverting the status quo of fashion, and today their acclaimed collections are celebrated worldwide for questioning gender and beauty norms, taste and the very function ...