Stephen Colbert on Trump v Musk: ‘Like Real Housewives on the girls’ trip’

Late-night hosts relished the dramatic fallout between Donald Trump and his erstwhile friend and ally Elon Musk.After a week of simmering tension, “a full-scale flame war has broken out between the world’s most famous besties, Donald Trump and Elon Musk”, said Stephen Colbert on Thursday’s Late Show. “Or as they’re known by their celebrity couple name, Two Huge Jagoffs.”Musk, the former head of Trump’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge), had spent the week criticizing Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill”, which would dramatically increase the government’s deficit. And on Thursday, after Trump claimed that Musk was just upset that the bill does away with mandates for electric vehicles, Musk posted a tweetstorm to X, writing in part: “Without me, Trump would have lost the election

480 sheeps’ heads in jars: Dark Mofo opens with another gory provocation

Trawulwuy artist Nathan Maynard’s installation intends to educate on Tasmania’s violent past – but will the lesson be lostGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIn the dimly-lit basement of a former furniture store in Hobart CBD, 480 embalmed sheep’s heads in specimen jars are arranged on industrial shelving units: 24 racks, each four shelves high and with five jars per shelf, in a neat grid. The fastidiousness of the presentation sits at odds with the inherent violence of the material; so do the expressions on most of the sheep’s faces, which range from serene to uncanny smiles.As if to dispel any false sense of quietude, the room’s lighting periodically switches to nightmarish red.This is We threw them down the rocks where they had thrown the sheep, an installation by Trawulwuy artist Nathan Maynard, part of this year’s Dark Mofo festival – the first after the often controversial festival took a year off in favour of a “period of renewal”.Maynard’s exhibition was the first announcement for the festival’s return, and it drew some scepticism from members of the local Tasmanian Aboriginal community at the time

Straw review – Taraji P Henson rises above Tyler Perry’s tortured Netflix thriller

Tyler Perry is not beating the allegations. For decades, the content-creating studio chief has been roundly criticized for making the traumatization of Black women a persistent theme in his work. In Straw, his latest exercise in misogynoir for Netflix, he pulls out all the stops to break the camel’s back.The guinea pig for this cultural stress test is Janiyah (Taraji P Henson), an apex Perry caricature who is past the point of exhaustion. Her loud, hot and dumpy apartment isn’t all that keeps her in perennial discomfort

Cardiff’s first modern art museum will aim to showcase Welsh talent

Cardiff is to welcome its first modern art museum, a space that aims to provide a platform for contemporary local artists as well as showcase global talent in the Welsh capital.The not-for-profit privately owned Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art (Amoca) will feature about 1,000 works mostly drawn from the collection of co-founder Anders Hedlund, a Welsh-Swedish entrepreneur and philanthropist.Amoca’s founders say they are close to finalising an agreement to buy a building to permanently house the artworks in Cardiff, which is expected to open in 2026.The museum will aim to “increase public access to contemporary art, broaden the traditional museum scope and foster creative development by disrupting conventional and stereotypical narratives”, according to its mission statement. It also says it will be dedicated to minorities and subcultures, with a particular focus on platforming the work of local Welsh artists and the next generation of Welsh talent

Explain it to me quickly: What is aura farming, and is it cool or cringe?

Bertin and Luca. You’re young people. Why are all the kids on my feeds suddenly talking about aura farming, and what does it have to do with Timothée Chalamet?Who has more aura than the Dune saga’s prophesied leader Paul Atreides? Since that role, Chalamet has become one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Aura farming is all about cultivating the coolest version of yourself. Think well-tailored suits, lots of grayscale, serious stares and sharp angles

Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Between Elon and Melania, Trump now has two foreigners who won’t sleep with him’

Late-night hosts delved into the rift between Elon Musk and Donald Trump after Musk publicly criticized Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill”.Jimmy Kimmel delved into a new drama consuming Washington on Wednesday: the “big, beautiful brouhaha titled Trump v Musk that is troubling Scam-alot”.That would be the new rift between Trump and his erstwhile adviser and administration mascot Musk, who recently departed the government after gutting the civil service as head of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge).Musk was reportedly “butthurt” by the end of his tenure – “and yes they did use that word, it was a quote of some of the stuff that was in the bill”, Kimmel explained on Wednesday evening. “Usually when Elon’s butt hurts, it’s because of all the drugs he’s trying to smuggle through White House security, but this time it’s different