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Busan Film Festival to Honor Its Founder Kim Dong-ho with Korean Cinema Award

Busan Film Festival to Honor Its Founder Kim Dong-ho with Korean Cinema Award

Published by Daniella Wilson

For this year’s Korean Cinema Award, the Busan International Film Festival will be honoring one of its own — the event’s founding OG, in fact. Kim Dong-ho, who established BIFF in 1996 and ran the event for its first 14 years, will receive the prize at the festival’s opening ceremony on Oct. 6. The award goes annually to figures who have advanced Korean cinema’s standing in the world — and few, perhaps, are as worthy as the founder of the festival himself. When BIFF launched in 1996, Korean films were still routinely submitted to government censors for pre-screening before public exhibition. Kim refused to put the festival’s program through that process, a stand that established BIFF’s independence, won the trust of filmmakers across the region and helped turn a first-year event in a Korean port city into the leading cinema showcase in Asia. The festival became the meeting ground and incubator for the Korean directors who would sweep the world in the early and mid-2000s, contributing significantly to the broader Korean cultural wave that continues today. …

Inhotim Founder Bernardo Paz to Open a Namesake Museum Right Next Door

Inhotim Founder Bernardo Paz to Open a Namesake Museum Right Next Door

Published by Jenni Sidey

Brazil’s Minas Gerais will soon see another museum thanks to mining magnate Bernardo Paz, the megacollector behind the Inhotim museum and nature complex. The Museu Bernardo Paz will turn 311 acres of countryside into a new landscape for “art, nature and community.” The first phase will open in September 2027.  “Museu Bernardo Paz is taking root and flourishing from a belief in the creative potential of unexpected encounters,” said Paz in press materials. “This is a place to discover new relationships between art and landscapes of different kinds, between artists and audiences that have not yet met one another, and between the community of Brumadinho and visitors from all over the world. All of this is coming together here, and all of it is for the people.” Related Articles The museum will encompass more than 20 galleries and pavilions, with commissioned outdoor installations and sculptures, all set in a landscape that includes a lush botanical park and a forest. Locals will be able to take advantage of a community center with a library and art …

NFT startup founder accused of diverting millions into gambling and luxury spending

NFT startup founder accused of diverting millions into gambling and luxury spending

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Federal prosecutors say the founder of an NFT startup collected more than $10 million from investors by promising to build a digital collectibles marketplace, then diverted much of that money to gambling, cryptocurrency trading, luxury purchases and other personal expenses instead. NFT startup founder charged: Taj Tarsha allegedly misappropriated millions from investors to fund his gambling and lifestyle. @NewYorkFBI https://t.co/SVixIDW1D3 — US Attorney SDNY (@SDNYnews) August 5, 2026 A federal grand jury in Manhattan returned an indictment charging Taj Tarsha, the founder and sole owner of Few and Far Limited, with securities fraud and wire fraud. Prosecutors contend the alleged misconduct stretched across several years and involved misleading investors about how company money was being used. Tarsha, 34, of Miami, was arrested on June 6, 2026, and the case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. Prosecutors allege NFT startup founder used investor funds for gambling  According to the indictment, Tarsha began seeking investments in February 2022 through Simple Agreements for Future Tokens, or SAFTs, which promised investors FAR tokens at a later …

Founder of New York Gallery Lubov Dies

Founder of New York Gallery Lubov Dies

Published by Jenni Sidey

Francisco Correa Cordero, the founder of New York gallery Lubov, died on August 2. The news was announced in a post on the gallery’s Instagram account, which did not provide a cause or age. “He accomplished and lived for his dream through the gallery of a safe and meaningful community for artists – what he built through Lubov will be felt through the art community forever,” the gallery’s post reads, which notes that Correa Cordero “passed away peacefully surrounded by what he loved the most – his chosen family, laughter and so much love.” Related Articles Lubov did not immediately return ARTnews’s request for comment. A pinned Instagram post from February 2025, featuring a Photoshopped “WANTED” poster for the dealer, lists his birthday as July 14, 1989, which means he would have been 37. The gallery’s currently website lists a solo show for Kane Huynh for the fall, with its most recent exhibition having been a solo for Adelisa Selimbašić, which closed on June 21.   Correa Cordero opened Lubov in November 2016 in a …

Inside the London hacker house taking a stand against founder burnout

Inside the London hacker house taking a stand against founder burnout

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Six twentysomethings in East London have built what they say is the anti-San Francisco hacker house. The goal is a “holistic improvement in life,” rather than “12 weeks, Demo Day is coming,” Rowan Aldean, 26, explained.  Intrigued, I spent an afternoon visiting the house, meeting its residents, and doing a vibe check. I arrived after Aldean escorted me through the clean sidewalks of a new East London development to where the six-story building stood facing the water.  The house is called the London Island Founder House — or “Lift House” — and Aldean and his wife, Zahraa, 22, an upcoming pharmaceutical research PhD candidate, have lived there since May, just a few months after it officially launched in March. Aldean sold his previous company last year for millions, he said, and now runs an “applied AI” startup that helps companies learn how to deploy agents.  Like all hacker houses, Lift House is part startup workspace, part co-living space. The house is named after both its lift — that is, its elevator — and its mission …

Russia charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with ‘aiding terrorism’ | Social Media News

Russia charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with ‘aiding terrorism’ | Social Media News

Published by Sam Flores

Russia’s FSB says Telegram has not pulled content used by Ukrainian intelligence and ‘terrorist’ groups to plan attacks. Published On 29 Jul 202629 Jul 2026 Russian authorities have charged Pavel Durov, cofounder of the encrypted messaging platform Telegram, with “aiding terrorism” and issued an international arrest warrant for him. Russia’s FSB security agency announced the charge against Durov on Wednesday, saying his company failed to take down “channels, chats and bots” used by “Ukrainian special services and by terrorist and extremist ⁠organisations” to prepare and coordinate attacks in Russia. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list Those attacks included acts of “sabotage and terrorism, mass killings, and cyber-fraud operations”, said the FSB. There was no official comment from Durov or Telegram, but Telegram’s official account on X posted a photograph of Durov holding up his middle finger after the charge was announced. The Russian charge comes as Moscow tries to restrict the use of Telegram and other popular messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, while promoting its own state-backed MAX messenger service. Experts warn that …

Inside one London founder house rewriting the founder-house rules 

Inside one London founder house rewriting the founder-house rules 

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Six twentysomethings in East London have built what they say is the anti-San Francisco hacker house. The goal is a “holistic improvement in life,” rather than “12 weeks, Demo Day is coming,” Rowan Aldean, 26, explained.  Intrigued, I spent an afternoon visiting the house, meeting its residents, and doing a vibe check. I arrived after Aldean escorted me through the clean sidewalks of a new East London development to where the six-story building stood facing the water.  The house is called the London Island Founder House — or “Lift House” — and Aldean and his wife, Zahraa, 22, an upcoming pharmaceutical research PhD candidate, have lived there since May, just a few months after it officially launched in March. Aldean sold his previous company last year for millions, he said, and now runs an “applied AI” startup that helps companies learn how to deploy agents.  Like all hacker houses, Lift House is part startup workspace, part co-living space. The house is named after both its lift — that is, its elevator — and its mission …