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Whitney Port Talks Serving ’90s-Inspired Tennis Looks and the Beauty Essentials in Her Match-Day Bag

Whitney Port Talks Serving ’90s-Inspired Tennis Looks and the Beauty Essentials in Her Match-Day Bag

Published by Daniella Wilson

Serving in more ways than one! Whitney Port is bringing back ’90s -inspired tennis fashion in a big way. The Hills alum sat down with ET to dish on her sporty style and the beauty essentials she relies on for match-day while celebrating her co-designed capsule with Courting. While tennis has become a major part of the reality star’s fitness regimen, looking cute on and off the court is what always scores points. Chloé Horseman “I got more into playing in recent years. … I love that it’s both mental and physical. It forces you to be present, which I find really grounding,” she shares. Putting a chic spin on vintage sportswear styles is also part of Port’s game. “We wanted to bring back contrast, bold color, and a bit of experimentation from the ’90s. … It’s about mixing tones and playing with shape,” she notes. Chloé Horseman Think classic silhouettes with an edge, from oversized proportions and fold-over waists to a standout Moto Jersey. “The vibe is elevated sport with personality. … It feels …

Maia Chao, Art World Anthropologist, Makes Her Whitney Biennial Debut

Maia Chao, Art World Anthropologist, Makes Her Whitney Biennial Debut

Published by José Betancourt

Drawing from her background in anthropology, Maia Chao often approaches art with an observation, then a question: Where does the art in doctors’ offices come from? How do you make a living as an artist? Building on these inquiries, often through mimicry or replication, leads to works that can make the mundane feel absurd, beautiful, or troubling. So it was with filler words. In the 2016 audio work Hesitation Particles,Chao interviewed native speakers of 31 different languages to collect samples of “hesitation particles”––used in most languages to mark a pause or hesitation in speech, as with “um” in English. Chao’s resulting composition is atmospheric—like being immersed in a crowd of global strangers deep in thought. Another project, “A Picture of Health (2022),” began with the weird art in a doctor’s office. After a particularly excruciating three-hour stay in a waiting room, where she stared at a landscape painting––“arguably one of the longest times I’ve contemplated a single work of art,” she told me––she staged an exhibition of paintings borrowed from the offices of 27 local …

In ‘Industry,’ Watches Are a Window Into Whitney Halberstram’s Soul

In ‘Industry,’ Watches Are a Window Into Whitney Halberstram’s Soul

Published by Jenni Sidey

Industry has long been a show more concerned with creating characters that feel real rather than playing into protagonist/antagonist archetypes. The show has never been particularly concerned with casting judgment on the series’ central character, Harper Stern, for her myriad personal and legal indiscretions, and it’s also gone to tremendous lengths to humanize hapless nepo baby Henry Muck. It’s saying something, then, that the series’s titanic fourth season—which concluded last night—was built around the show’s first true villain, Whitney Halberstram. Halberstram, chillingly played by Max Minghella, doesn’t give much away as his villainy builds, but his choice of watches speaks volumes. Show creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay have never been afraid to wear their influences on their sleeves (they heavily name-checked Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton as the basis for the fourth season), and consistent with that, Halberstram was an homage to Patricia Highsmith’s legendary literary conman Tom Ripley. (In a fun twist, 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley was written and directed by Minghella’s father, Anthony.) Like Ripley, the more time we spend with Halberstram, …

The 2026 Whitney Biennial Swaps Identity for Infrastructure.

The 2026 Whitney Biennial Swaps Identity for Infrastructure.

Published by José Betancourt

This year’s Whitney Biennial spotlights “the greater United States”—a term from historian Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire. It describes not only the country’s 50 states but also its occupied countries, annexes, military bases, and territories. Strategically, Immerwahr argues, words like “colony” and “empire” have been evaded by officials since World War II—but that’s just semantics. As the country turns 250, the 2026 Whitney Biennial—that storied finger on the pulse of American art—takes a deliberate look beyond the “logo map,” another of Immerwahr’s terms for the geographic shape most people picture when they think of “the United States.” Curators Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer included artists from US-occupied Okinawa, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan; from Chile, where the US engaged in clandestine interventions; from current and former territories, like Puerto Rico and the Philippines; and from Palestine, where the US continues to fund a genocide. The move is both timeless and timely: while I was writing this review, my phone buzzed to inform me that Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, had been killed …

Even ‘Industry’ Star Max Minghella Isn’t Sure How Whitney Really Feels About Henry

Even ‘Industry’ Star Max Minghella Isn’t Sure How Whitney Really Feels About Henry

Published by Jenni Sidey

This story contains spoilers for Industry season four episode six, “Dear Henry.” Although he’s a veteran of Oscar and Emmy winning projects, Max Minghella calls his current run on Industry the most rewarding experience of his career. Through six episodes as shady businessman Whitney Halberstram, the Social Network alum has gotten plenty of juicy scenes and monologues, but nothing quite compares to the moment he channels pop history’s most famous Whitney during Sunday’s episode. “When I read that in the script, I was probably the most excited of anything for Whitney, because I just thought it was genius and so to my taste,” Minghella says, of the moment when Whitney begins singing Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” during a tense call with Harper (Myha’la). “When you unlock something like that, the magic of it being a Whitney track, and having the Halberstram/Patrick Bateman of it all, and then the lyrics themselves all coalescing in that way, it’s kind of a miracle moment. So I felt very grateful that I got to do it, …

Gagosian Opens 14th Roy Lichtenstein Show Ahead of Whitney Retrospective

Gagosian Opens 14th Roy Lichtenstein Show Ahead of Whitney Retrospective

Published by Jenni Sidey

This spring, Gagosian will open its 14th exhibition dedicated to Roy Lichtenstein. Titled “Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes,” the exhibition draws exclusively from the Lichtenstein family collection and will feature paintings, sculpture, watercolors, and works on paper from the 1970s and ’80s. Opening March 19 at the gallery’s 541 West 24th Street space, the show lands in the middle of a frenzied run of market activity for the late Pop artist, alongside a major Whitney Museum retrospective for Lichtenstein opening later this year. Related Articles Last April, Sotheby’s announced a consignment of more than 40 works from the artist’s family, estimated above $35 million. In September, it staged a dedicated single-owner sale of more than 90 works from the Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein Collection. Then in November, as part of the house’s contemporary evening sale, it sold eight works from the collection, achieving $20.7 million and a 100 percent sell-through rate. In total, Sotheby’s sold nearly $150 million worth of art by Lichtenstein. The Gagosian show focuses on a motif that Lichtenstein would return to again …

The subtle way Coco Jones honored Whitney Houston during Super Bowl performance

The subtle way Coco Jones honored Whitney Houston during Super Bowl performance

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Coco Jones paid homage to the late Whitney Houston as she sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before the kickoff of the 2026 Super Bowl as the Seattle Seahawks took on the New England Patriots. Jones arrived at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, to sing what is often called the “Black National Anthem,” wearing a cropped white jacket with red, black and green accents, meant to represent the colors of the Pan-African flag. The outfit was paired with an asymmetric bubble skirt with a long train designed by the well-known streetwear designer, Karl Kani. Jones’s look mirrored the same all-white outfit the “I Will Always Love You” singer wore when she performed the U.S. National Anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl, where the …

Chaka Khan, Cher, Whitney Houston, Fela Kuti Get Grammys Life Achievement Awards

Chaka Khan, Cher, Whitney Houston, Fela Kuti Get Grammys Life Achievement Awards

Published by Sam Flores

“Music has been my prayer, my healing, my joy, my truth,” Khan said as she accepted the award. “Through it, I saved my life.” She was the only Lifetime Achievement recipient who appeared at the ceremony at the small Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles on the eve of Sunday’s main Grammys ceremony. She was preceded by a short documentary on her career that highlighted her hits as a member of the funk band Rufus and as a solo artist, including 1974’s Stevie Wonder-written “Tell Me Something Good,” 1983’s “Ain’t Nobody,” 1978’s “I’m Every Woman” and 1984’s Prince-penned “I Feel For You.” Wearing a shimmering sea green gown, she thanked her many collaborators while admitting not all of them were entirely sane. “Over 50 years I am blessed to walk alongside extraordinary artists, musicians, writers, producers and creatives,” she said, pausing before adding, “and cuckoos.” Family accepted the Lifetime Achievement Awards for the Nigerian Afrobeat legend Kuti, who died in 1997, and the singing superstar Houston, who died in 2012. “Her voice — that voice! …

Ego Nwodim to Co-Chair Whitney Museum Art Party in January 2026

Ego Nwodim to Co-Chair Whitney Museum Art Party in January 2026

Published by José Betancourt

Actress and comedian Ego Nwodim will co-chair the Whitney Museum of American Art’s annual Art Party on January 27, 2026, the museum announced on Thursday. Hosted by the Whitney Contemporaries, the event will take place at the museum’s Gansevoort Street building and will feature DJ sets by Raúl de Nieves and The Dare, whose performance will headline the night. A fixture on New York’s arts and philanthropy calendar, the Art Party draws young patrons, artists, and figures from the worlds of art, fashion, entertainment, and business for after-hours access to the museum’s galleries, along with cocktails, food, and dancing. Related Articles Nwodim will serve as a co-chair alongside artists Martine Gutierrez and Emma Safir, as well as Whitney Contemporaries Steven Beltrani, Micaela Erlanger, and Alexander Hankin. The 2026 edition marks Erlanger’s 10th year as a co-chair of the event. The Whitney said this year’s Art Party will emphasize “bold expression” in art, style, and sound, with guests encouraged to wear vibrant prints and patterns. The evening is being supported by sponsors including Aesop, Faena New …

What happened between Whitney and Lochan after Love Island?

What happened between Whitney and Lochan after Love Island?

Published by Daniella Wilson

Whitney Adebayo is making a return to the Love Island villa, hoping for a second chance at love, as All Stars finally returns to screens tonight (15th January) after a brief delay. She first appeared on Love Island in 2023, entering as a bombshell and was a quick favourite among fans, notably for her one-liners and talent show performance. It was on this series she met Lochan Nowacki, who entered the villa as a Casa Amor bombshell. The pair quickly fell in love and placed as runners-up, so it was quite the shock to fans when after almost two years of being together, the pair announced they had gone their separate ways. Lochan has since got into a new relationship, while Whitney is headed into the villa and is looking forward “to being in a bikini every day, dating guys, in good company… it’s a good time to forget about the world”. She added: “There’s always something! And to take a break from the world, how many people can say they took a great break …