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...Putting the filmmaker Spike Lee in front of the camera alongside basketball star Michael Jordan, for example, came to Riswold and his producer when they noticed Lee’s character in She’s Gotta Have It refused...
...“Cho was like the original K-pop idol, with looks, intelligence and morality on his side,” said Lee....
...Another defining moment took place when Seán McGirr presented his first collection as new creative director of Alexander McQueen....
...The garden and landscape designer Sean A Pritchard’s first book Outside In will be published this month....
..., just before Lee’s death) into To Kill a Mockingbird....
...“I took references from TikTok trends, K-pop idols, role-playing, and ‘VTubers’ [who live-stream as digital avatars]. It provides a very rich palette to play with.”...
...Hybe, the South Korean music agency behind global superstars BTS, has nominated its own staff as candidates for the board of SM Entertainment, as a battle to take over the K-pop juggernaut heats up....
...It’s directed with tongue firmly in cheek by Josephine and Sean Holmes....
...The multisensory Bolivian-American artist Donna Huanca, whose last show at Lee’s gallery was in 2020, has joined Sean Kelly, which has her painting “Cotyledon Sun” (2023, $70,000) on its booth at The Armory...
...My style icon is Lee Radziwill. Everyone’s focus has always been Jackie but, for me, it’s always been Lee. I think she was slightly less conservative....
...Since then, the sweet-voiced, intricately inked Yaweh has been taking flight on his own terms, releasing a flurry of tracks, remixes and collaborations with acts that span hip hop to K-pop....
...Conner Ives presented an ode to the women that inspire him, such as socialites Lee Radziwill and model Ella Richards — or in Ives’ words, “the closest that we have to royalty”, because of their place in...
...Last week, Lee Soo-man and Hybe chair Bang Si-hyuk issued a joint statement promising to grow both companies so as to “enhance K-pop’s global competitiveness” and to pursue Lee’s vision of establishing K-pop...
...Market leader Hybe, the company behind megastar boy band BTS, last week bought 15 per cent of its main rival SM Entertainment from the country’s best-known K-pop impresario, SM founder Lee Soo-man....
...On Thursday, Hybe proposed seven new candidates for SM’s board of directors, amid longstanding shareholder concerns about Lee Soo-man’s influence over the K-pop agency....
...“I love placing emerging or mid-career artists with much more known ones,” he says, pointing out a grey-on-black striped Sean Scully....
...Kakao said the tender offer would increase its stake in the K-pop juggernaut to 40 per cent from 4.9 per cent....
...Shares of the country’s four biggest K-pop agencies — Hybe, SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment, JYP Entertainment — have all gone up by at least a third this year, double the Kospi’s advance and outperforming...
...I discovered that this baby-faced front row idol was Lee Tae-yong, or Taeyong, the South Korean rapper, singer and songwriter and leader of the K-pop boy band NCT....
...Lee begins with the perplexing fifth life, “Virgin Ghost on the North Korean Border”, set in 1961 and narrated by a male observer....
...Align scored a decisive victory over K-pop agency SM Entertainment’s founder and then controlling shareholder at the annual meeting in March last year....
...SM, which manages NCT and Aespa as well as Super Junior and Girls’ Generation, is the country’s first publicly listed K-pop agency....
...streaming platforms “lag behind in comparison to other global music streaming services, such as Apple Music which has already achieved 100 per cent renewables,” 20-year-old campaigner at Kpop4planet Da-yeon Lee...
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