Modern Beauty Trends: In: Newly Uncovered Warhols

Thursday, November 30, 2017

In: Newly Uncovered Warhols | Out: The FCC

A trove of previously undiscovered Warhols was found in a woman’s attic. Meanwhile, the FCC chairman attempts to take on Cher.
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“Here’s to all the women that were never a Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, or Charlotte. Here’s to the Elaines.”

– Chrissy Teigen

Undiscovered Warhols

Your Basic Campbell’s Soup Print

There are so many Warhols out on the market, you’d think there couldn’t be any more out there. Well, you’d think wrong. A previously undiscovered stash of the pop artist’s work was found in a woman’s attic in Massachusetts. The woman, however, was not just some random person, but the mother of Warhol’s late muse and boyfriend, Jon Gould, and the rest of the family had assumed the mother no longer had anything left of his personal collection. Among the trove are sketches, photos Warhol had taken of Gould, and a unique sculpture that could be worth up to $1 million. A few pieces from Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, and Keith Haring were found as well. The lot will go up for auction Friday in case you’re in the market for some fresh, new Warhols. Paging Peter Brant...”

2017 Being 2017

Matt Lauer

We returned hopeful, cheerful, and rested from our Thanksgiving holidays to start our week off with the lovely news that Suits actress Meghan Markle has found a suitable husband, and maybe, we thought, that in comparison to the rest of 2017 at least, we could just glide through these holiday-filled last weeks of the year in relative bliss. Ha! Fat chance. Gee, on Wednesday, we found out that Matt Lauer had apparently turned the Today show studios into his own personal sin den of sexual harassment. For some reason, NBC execs decided to have his female co-hosts announce his firing on air in near tears. (President Trump, for some reason, decided to chime in in the worst way possible as well.) Then we learned that public radio mainstay Garrison Keillor had been dropped by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of impropriety as well. Oh, and North Korea apparently has a new missile that can reach our Eastern coast. So that’s fun! 2017 seems to want to go out exactly the way it came in: miserably.

The Power of Cher

The FCC

If you’ve been online in the past few weeks, you’ve probably learned that there’s a bit of controversy about the very of future of the Internet. Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai plans to roll back Obama-era regulations that protect net neutrality (which prevent your Internet provider from throttling traffic or discriminating against traffic from certain sites, among other traits). His plan has been met with outrage, and apparently Pai isn’t too happy about it. In fact, he blames, in part, Cher. Yes, Cher! In a speech before a conservative group, he addressed criticism directed at his plan by several celebrities, with a Cher tweet being particularly singled out. “Cher, for example, has tweeted that the Internet ‘Will Include LESS AMERICANS NOT MORE’ if my proposal is adopted,” he said. “But the opposite is true.” Ars Technica is wary of Pai’s reasoning. FCC commissioners are slated to vote on Pai’s proposal on December 14.

Kendall Jenner

@kendalljenner

You probably already follow Kendall Jenner because in addition to being this year’s highest paid model, she’s also this year’s most followed model on Instagram. In case you don’t, here’s a taste of what you’re missing out on. Find the rest of the list of the top 10 most followed models here.