Internet Microdoses

Legendary artist Yayoi Kusama has passed away at 97. For eight decades, she gave us fields of polka dots and her beloved Infinity Mirror Rooms where visitors could seemingly disappear. Tourists treated them like selfie walls, whereas Kusama had a more unsettling term. Learn why she described them as “self-obliteration”

Marilyn Monroe’s Bel-Air party pad is up for sale. Casa Contenta, which was also frequented by Audrey Hepburn and Clark Gable, has remained in the same family for nearly 80 years and is now listed for $11.5 million. The seller’s only real request: that the next owner preserve it rather than replace it with “modern living boxes of steel, concrete, and glass.” Tour the Old Hollywood home

A judge stopped the sale of over 100 artifacts recovered from the Titanic, including a bronze cherub and a gold-nugget necklace. The US and French governments joined 19 other groups fighting the sale. So if you were in the market for a rare cherub, that ship has sailed. Why the Titanic’s treasures can’t be sold

John Galliano’s Met exhibition canceled after donors, politicians, and Jewish leaders spoke out against the museum for platforming a designer convicted of an antisemitic hate crime. He would have been only the third living designer to get a solo show there. Perhaps they should’ve done a little research first. Read about John Galliano’s 2011 conviction

Meta is imposing a two-hour daily limit on Facebook and Instagram for teens, along with an overnight shutoff for under-18s. The changes won’t happen unless Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube face similar restrictions. Ironically, “we’ll only do it if they do it” sounds like something a teen would say. What happens after a teen spends two hours on IG?

The new Tamagotchi is small enough to wear on your finger. The 30th-anniversary model packs 30 characters onto a half-inch screen. Bandai calls it the smallest LCD Tamagotchi ever built. Only time will tell if you still let it die when it’s sitting on your hand. Pre-orders are open at $48