Burton was most interested in the ways queer people, especially gay men, study and mimic others’ gestures as social camouflage while developing covert signaling choreographies only legible to those in the know. Bringing lessons from cruising, bathhouses, and bars into theaters and museums, Burton applied conceptual art’s interest in systems, repetition, and variation to how queer people really lived. Since his death from AIDS-related complications in 1989, Burton’s work has been relegated to the fringes of the art world — the kind of artist only other artists would reference. If Scott Burton: Shape Shift, a recent exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, is any indication, this is about to change.
Shape Shift was the largest exhibition of the artist’s work in the United States since his death, and devoted an entire gallery to Burton’s pioneering performance practice, with photographs, notational sketches, and an unassuming wooden stool once used on stage. In his stagings, pieces of furniture weren’t mere props — they defined the actors’ social relations. He even transformed some into performers themselves, with lights coming up on chairs in different configurations to represent group dynamics — no actors required. The use of objects as performers is a heightened take on minimalism’s use of placement, form, and volume to activate one’s spatial awareness. Evoking the surfaces on and around which we live, like tables, chairs, and the floor, minimalist sculptures’ horizontal planes are often subject to unintended use (this year, I have seen a bag set down on a Jackie Winsor cube and a jacket slotted into the gap of a Donald Judd wall stack). Burton’s sculptures affirm this impulse, allowing themselves to be structures of support, fostering physical intimacy between sculpture and viewer.
When low-mass stars approach the end of their main-sequence phase, they expel clouds of gas that expand to form planetary nebulae. Since they were first identified in the late 1700s, astronomers have identified nebulae of all shapes and sizes, with most appearing circular, elliptical, or bipolar. However, some nebulae stray from this pattern, including the NGC 6072 nebula located about 3,060 light-years away in the southern constellation Scorpius. In a new series of high-resolution images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have noted some peculiar patterns that could provide insight into the lifecycle of stars.
At first glance, the images taken using Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) suggest that NGC 6072 is a giant mess reminiscent of a bug splattered on a windshield. However, the structure traced by Webb’s instruments suggests that some very complex mechanisms are at work within it. The NIRCam data shows a hot central core region glowing brightly with a light blue hue, surrounded by elliptical outflows that give it a multi-polar configuration. These outflows have resulted in two lobes of gas and dust that cross the center at near-vertical angles, while a third extends perpendicularly to form an equatorial plane.
The central region covers a large area of dark pockets surrounded by orange material that grows redder the farther it is from the center. This is consistent with the gas and dust growing colder the farther it ventures from the hot central core. The three-lobe structure could mean that at least two stars are at the nebula’s center, likely consisting of a younger companion to the aging star that has already lost most of its material. The MIRI data, meanwhile, captures the longer-wavelength infrared data, which emphasizes the web-like structure created by the outflows of dust.
The NGC 6072 nebula as imaged by Webb’s MIRI instrument. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
This image also reveals the star that could be central to the nebula (which appears as a pinkish-white dot), as well as concentric rings expanding from the central region to the edges of the lobes. This could also be evidence of a secondary star at the center, orbiting the older star and carving out rings in its wake. Alternately, the rings could have been caused by pulsations in the outflows, where gas and dust were expelled at long intervals (every thousand years or so) in all directions. The areas represented by NIRCam (red) and MIRI (blue) both trace the cool gas in the cloud (likely molecular hydrogen), while the central regions trace hot ionized gas.
As the aging star at the center cools, the nebula will dissipate into the interstellar medium (ISM), contributing the heavier elements from which new stars and planetary systems will form. The study of planetary nebulae is a major objective for the JWST, which will provide new insights into the lifecycle of stars and their impact on the surrounding environments. These studies could also shed light on what may become of our Sun when it reaches the end of its main sequence phase, billions of years from now.
In the latest “Savage Fashion” podcast episode, WWD’s chief content officer Jim Fallon and fashion director Alex Badia sat down with Michael Kors to discuss his fashion-obsessed childhood and ascent to the industry as well as his return to “Project Runway,” filmed at the renovated and recently reopened Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.
“I always thought you had to be by the book,” Kors told Fallon and Badia. “You go to FIT, you graduate, you become an assistant working for another designer and you learn the ropes. There was never a doubt that I was going to have the Michael Kors brand and it was going to be my own thing — but I didn’t know it was going to happen so fast.”
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When Kors attended FIT in 1977, it was at the height of Studio 54. He walked into the famous nightclub and immediately felt right at home. “I was seeing the designers I admired out and about and seeing the women they dressed: Halston, Calvin [Klein] or Steven Burrows. I knew this would be my world.”
Kors shared that his brand’s aesthetic is personal to who he is — “I’m a bit of a contradiction myself. I am super casual but I love luxury and I love indulgence. I’m either the life of the party or I’m a loner. I’m levelheaded but silly. I always responded to this idea that people have different sides to them.”
While noting that fashion has not always been portrayed in the best light in film and on television, Kors was intrigued when he heard the premise of “Project Runway” — the show coincided with the launch of his more accessible Michael Michael Kors line and pulled back the curtain on how Kors thinks and operates as a global brand. Kors will be returning this season as a guest judge.
“I might get in trouble for saying this but I think American designers need to show in New York,” Kors said. “I think British designers need to show in London. I think Italian designers need to show in Italy. I think French designers need to show in Paris. There’s strength in numbers; we are a community. I’d like to see everyone back together and showing in New York together — it makes it more powerful. America is a place of such great diversity and fashion week should be that.”
Fallon and Badia also discussed the latest news, with the second-quarter earnings reporting from luxury groups largely in decline. Kering sales were down 25 percent in the first half, with consumers waiting for Demna’s start at Gucci in September with a see now, buy now strategy. LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton saw a 22 percent decline with Dior still in a transitional period with creative director Jonathan Anderson, but Louis Vuitton outperformed its other brands.
While LVMH firmly denied back in January that Marc Jacobs was on the selling block, WWD’s deputy managing editor Evan Clark reported that various industry sources said that Authentic Brands Group, WHP Global and Bluestar Alliance are all in talks with LVMH and JP Morgan to potentially buy up the American brand — it’s reportedly up for grabs for a cool $1 billion.
“[The Marc Jacobs sale news] was a bit of a surprise,” Fallon said. “We heard it early in the year but LVMH firmly denied it. Marc and others still own a stake in the brand. The most surprising thing is the people they’re talking to — brand management firms. It’s really then going to be more of a licensed business. What that means for Marc himself — given that he himself designs the most extravagant, imaginative and creative collections — remains to be seen.”
And tariffs continue to be top of mind, as Wall Street continues to closely monitor the never-ending changes in rates and negotiations with the Trump administration.
“What will be interesting to see — which is yet to be determined — is what impact the tariffs are going to have. The wines and spirits division [at LVMH] is going to be hit pretty hard by the 15 percent tariffs. That’s higher than what they’re already paying. We’re still figuring out what that means for the fashion division but it will also be higher for the beauty products,” Fallon said.
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At a White House press conference to discuss Apple’s new US manufacturing plans, CEO Tim Cook presented a gift to President Donald Trump: a “unique” piece of glass from iPhone glass manufacturer Corning that’s set in a 24-karat gold base.
The piece of glass is a large disc with the Apple logo cut into it. On the top of the glass, President Trump’s name is printed. On the bottom, there’s a signature that appears to be Cook’s as well as the message “Made in USA” and the year 2025. The glass was designed by a “former US Marine Corps corporal” who works at Apple, according to Cook. The base “comes from Utah.”
Cook is well-known for his ability to foster a relationship with President Trump, and shortly after Trump was elected for his second term, CEOs reportedly looked to replicate Cook’s relationship-building skills. Trump has threatened Apple and other phone manufacturers with tariffs unless they bring manufacturing to the US.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 7, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission from the International Space Station. Pending weather conditions, splashdown is targeted at 11:58 a.m., Friday, Aug. 8. Crew-10 will be the first mission to splash down off the California coast for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov are completing a five-month science expedition aboard the orbiting laboratory and will return time-sensitive research to Earth.
Mission managers continue monitoring weather conditions in the area, as undocking of the SpaceX Dragon depends on spacecraft readiness, recovery team readiness, weather, sea states, and other factors. NASA and SpaceX will select a specific splashdown time and location closer to the Crew-10 spacecraft undocking.
NASA’s live coverage of return and related activities will stream on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and more. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms.
NASA’s coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and subject to changed based on real-time operations):
Thursday, Aug. 7
9:45 a.m. – Hatch closure coverage begins on NASA+ and Amazon Prime.
10:20 a.m. – Hatch closing
11:45 a.m. – Undocking coverage begins on NASA+ and Amazon Prime.
12:05 p.m. – Undocking
Following the conclusion of undocking coverage, NASA will distribute audio-only discussions between Crew-10, the space station, and flight controllers during Dragon’s transit away from the orbital complex.
Friday, Aug. 8
10:45 a.m. – Return coverage begins on NASA+ and Amazon Prime.
11:08 a.m. – Deorbit burn
11:58 a.m. – Splashdown
1:30 p.m. – Return to Earth media teleconference will stream live on the agency’s YouTube channel, with the following participants:
Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
Dina Contella, deputy manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program
Sarah Walker, director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX
Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, associate director general, Space Exploration Center/Space Exploration Innovation Hub Center, JAXA
To participate in the teleconference, media must contact the NASA Johnson newsroom by 5 p.m., Aug. 7, at: jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov or 281-483-5111. To ask questions, media must dial in no later than 10 minutes before the start of the call. The agency’s media credentialing policy is available online.
Find full mission coverage, NASA’s commercial crew blog, and more information about the Crew-10 mission at:
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Teyana Taylor revealed on Wednesday (Aug. 6) that she’ll be undergoing emergency surgery after a noncancerous growth was discovered on her vocal cords.
The rapper-actress shared the health update to her Instagram Story, but promised that while she’ll need to cancel some upcoming appearances, like an upcoming podcast with Michelle Obama, her Escape Room album rollout is going to continue with the project scheduled to arrive on Aug. 22.
“I’ve been quietly dealing with some vocal challenges for a while now. And after a lot of back and forth with my doctors, I’ve been told I need vocal surgery immediately,” she wrote. “They found a noncancerous growth on one of my cords that’s been messing with my voice and causing real discomfort. Thankfully, we caught it & it’s treatable—but it does mean I need to pause and give myself time to fully heal.”
The 34-year-old continued: “That honestly breaks my heart. I don’t take lightly what it means to show up for y’all. I’ve poured so much of myself into this next chapter—especially the Escape Room, which is still dropping August 22! So no worries there. It’s the most personal body of work I’ve ever created. and the timing… it’s not lost on me. Just as I was getting ready to finally share this with you, life handed me my own unexpected ‘escape room’—one I didn’t ask for, but one I now have to find my way out of with patience, rest, and faith.”
Even amid the health battle, Taylor says she put her “whole heart into this music, this film, this rollout. And when I return, it’ll be with even more fire, more purpose, and the best version of me. Thank you for rocking with me through it all.”
Escape Room is set to boast 22 tracks, including her previously released “Bed of Roses” and “Long Time” singles and skits from Issa Rae and Lala Anthony.
The project serves as Spike Tee’s first LP since 2020’s The Album, which reached No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and No. 6 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
2025 is shaping up to be another busy campaign for the Harlem native, who is starring in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another film alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn, due out later this year.
Apple said Wednesday that it would expand its planned investment in the United States as it faces pressure from President Donald Trump to shift its supply chain to American soil.
The splashy announcement came hours before Trump’s wave of country-specific tariffs were set to go into effect. The president’s levy barrage isn’t over yet. Trump has warned he will be announcing tariffs on semiconductors, which could affect iPhones, iPads, MacBooks and other popular Apple products.
Speaking alongside Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump said his administration is “going to be putting a very large tariff on chips and semiconductors,” but for any company “building in the United States of America, there’s no charge.” Trump said the semiconductor tariff would be approximately 100% and apply to all chips imported into the country.
Apple also said it will manufacture the glass covers on all iPhones and Apple Watch devices sold worldwide in the United States. Apple said manufacturing firm Corning will produce that glass at its Harrodsburg, Kentucky, plant under a $2.5 billion commitment.
“Apple will massively increase spending on its domestic supply chain for the iPhone, and will build the largest and most sophisticated smart glass production line in the world,” Trump said.
That plant has been producing glass products for over 60 years, according to a post on Corning’s website. In 2021, Apple said Corning already supplied glass for iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad. Apple also said at the time that “every generation of iPhone glass has been made” at the plant named in Wednesday’s announcement.
Corning will dedicate the entire facility to manufacturing for Apple, and that would boost the glass maker’s manufacturing and engineering workforce in Kentucky by 50%, the tech giant said in a news release.
“I’m glad to be here with you today, and I’m very proud to say that today, we’re committing an additional $100 billion to the United States,” Cook told Trump during their White House event.
Cook also said the company has “already signed new agreements with 10 companies across America” to do additional manufacturing.
“Second, we’re committed to buying American made, advanced rare earth magnets,” he added, noting an agreement announced in July.
Apple supplier Applied Materials also announced that it would invest $200 million in an Arizona factory that manufactures chip-making equipment. That equipment will be used by Texas Instruments, another Apple supplier, to make some semiconductors used in Apple’s products.
Apple said the glass manufacturing announcement was part of a $600 billion commitment to bring parts of its supply chains to the U.S. Previously, the company had vowed to invest $500 billion over the next four years.
“Apple will also build a 250,000-square-foot server manufacturing facility in Houston, and invest billions of dollars to construct data centers across the country from North Carolina to Iowa to Oregon,” Trump also said.
Apple had previously announced the Houston server plant, which is estimated to open in 2026.
However, Wednesday’s announcement doesn’t mean manufacturing or assembly of any of the company’s major products, such as the iPhone, iPad or MacBook, will come to the States. Cook told reporters that final assembly of iPhones wouldn’t happen in the U.S. “for a while,” even though “there’s a lot” of pieces made in the U.S. Most iPhones are manufactured in India and China.
Most of Apple’s most popular products are currently exempt from tariffs while the Commerce Department conducts a so-called Section 232 investigation to determine the national security impact of importing those products and their parts. Despite the exemptions, Apple took an $800 million hit in the last quarter from tariffs and predicted it will take another $1.5 billion hit in the next three months.
In a May social media post, Trump said: “I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone’s that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else.”
Trump on Wednesday conceded that some recent factory announcements may take a number of years to materialize.
“So I don’t know when it shows up, but there are a lot of factories and a lot of plants that are either under construction or soon we’ll be starting construction,” he said. “So can’t tell you exactly when, but I want to be around in about a year from now and two years from now, because we’re going to see an explosion, I think.”
Apple’s investment pledge bears some similarities to recent announcements from the president. OpenAI, Oracle and Japan’s Softbank collectively pledged $500 billion to invest in building out data centers across the country to power artificial intelligence applications.
But months after being announced, the plans reportedly hit some snags. The three firms said they would “immediately” begin investing but now the plans call for just one small data center in Ohio by the end of the year.
A trade agreement between the Trump administration and the European Union included what they said would be $600 billion of investments in the United States and $750 billion of energy purchases.
“They gave me $600 billion, and that’s a gift,” Trump said on CNBC Tuesday. “They gave us $600 billion that we can invest in anything we want.”
However, the E.U. said in a statement that European companies have only “expressed interest in investing at least $600 billion.” The E.U. does not have any mechanism in place to incentivize those investments. Similarly, the E.U. has said $750 billion is only a projection of potential energy purchases over the next three years.
The baseline data of all 204 patients and their tumors are summarized in Table 1. The median follow-up times for DFS were 899.5 days in the training cohort (interquartile range [IQR]: 385.0–1257.0 days) and 950.4 days in the validation cohort (IQR: 499.0–1304.5 days).
Table 1 Clinicopathological parameters in all cohorts.
Sixty-five of the 204 patients experienced disease recurrence, 33 (50.8%) of whom experienced systemic disease recurrence (8 in the lung, 20 in the liver, 2 in the bone and 3 in both the liver and lung), 21 (32.3%) of whom experienced locoregional disease recurrence, and 11 (16.9%) of whom experienced mixed disease. Among them, 20 patients were confirmed by surgery, while the other 45 patients were diagnosed based on radiological characteristics. 137 (67.2%) patients were treated with postoperative adjuvant fluorouracil-based chemotherapy.
Overall, the average CD34-based MVD of all the lesions was 40.19 ± 6.89; for CD105-based MVD, it was 28.25 ± 5.50.
2D- vs. 3D-ROI interobserver agreement
Among the two ROI methods, the 3D-ROI method had the best interobserver agreement (ICC of 0.826–0.960) (Table 2). The Bland-Altman analysis showed that all the imaging features measured by the 3D-ROI method were more concentrated than those measured by the 2D-ROI method, indicating that the 3D-ROI analysis had a smaller consistency interval and better accuracy in repeated measurements by different readers (Fig. 2). Therefore, the average values of 3D-quantitative imaging features calculated by the two radiologists were used for further analysis.
Table 2 The interclass correlation coefficient between the two observers using two different ROI methods.
Predictive factors for DFS
In the univariate analyses of DFS, clinicopathological parameters (histologic grade, pT stage, pN stage, CEA, HIF-1α, LVI, and PNI), SDCT features (NICVP3D and NICDP3D values) and angiogenesis parameters (CD34, CD105, and VEGF) were associated with DFS. According to the multivariate analysis, clinicopathological parameters (PNI, histologic grade), SDCT features (NICVP3D values) and angiogenesis parameters (CD105) were found to be independent predictors in the training cohort (P < 0.05, Table 3).
Table 3 Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis for recurrence prediction in training cohort.
Fig. 2
Bland-Altman analysis between the two observers using two different ROI methods. (a) ICVP3D. (b) ICDP3D. (c) NICVP3D. (d) NICDP3D. (e) ICVP2D. (f) ICVP2D. (g) NICVP2D. (h) NICDP2D.
Model construction and comparison
A multidimensional radiological-angiogenesis-clinicopathological integrated model (RACIM) was established based on the above prediction variables (PNI, CD105, histologic grade and NICVP3D values), which predicted the probability of disease recurrence for each individual patient. Multivariate analysis was used to construct a clinical model that included histologic grade, HIF-1α, LVI and PNI; an angiogenesis model that included CD105; and a radiological model that included NICVP3D values. The receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves of the different models for the entire cohort are shown in Fig. 3. The ROC curves revealed that the radiological model (NICVP3D) had an AUC of 0.85 (95% CI, 0.78–0.91), a sensitivity of 78.4%, and a specificity of 79.3%. According to the X-tile, the optimal cut-off value of the NICVP3D was identified as 0.345. The combined model achieved excellent predictive performance, with AUCs of 0.95 (95% CI, 0.92–0.98) and 0.93 (95% CI, 0.85-1.00) in the training and validation cohorts, respectively (Table 4). The AUC of the combined model was obviously greater than that of the radiological (P = 0.0004, P = 0.0393), angiogenesis (P < 0.0001, P = 0.0091) and clinical models (P = 0.0471, P = 0.0088) in all cohorts.
Fig. 3
Receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) analysis for the prediction models in the training (a) and validation cohorts (b).
Table 4 ROC analyses of the different models in the training and validation cohorts.
Additionally, a VN model with pathological stage, surgical procedure, and adjuvant chemotherapy status was also built for comparison. Compared with the VN model (AUC: 0.77, 95% CI: 0.70–0.85; AUC: 0.76, 95% CI: 0.59–0.92; AUC: 0.72, 95% CI: 0.59–0.85), our radiological and RACIM models exhibited superior performance in the training (AUC: 0.85, 95% CI: 0.78–0.91, P = 0.0160; AUC: 0.95, 95% CI: 0.92–0.98, P < 0.0001) and validation (AUC: 0.83, 95% CI: 0.73–0.93, P = 0.4217; AUC: 0.93, 95% CI: 0.85-1.00, P = 0.0428) (Table 4). Moreover, the calibration plots of RACIM model showed that the estimations had good agreement with the actual observations (Fig. 4a,b). The decision curve analysis curves revealed that the RACIM model achieved moderately better net benefit than other models over the relevant threshold range in all cohorts (Fig. 4c, d).
Fig. 4
Calibration curves and decision curves of different models. (a) Calibration curves in training cohort. (b) Calibration curves in validation cohort. (c) Decision curves in training cohort. (d) Decision curves in validation cohort.
Patient risk stratification
We divided patients into high- and low-risk groups according to the X-tile-generated optimum cutoff value (0.389) of the RACIM, which significantly differed in terms of DFS in the training cohort (log-rank test, P < 0.001) (Fig. 5a). Then, we performed the same analyses to stratify patients in the validation cohort to determine the prognostic value of the RACIM. Consistent with the training cohort, significant differences in DFS were observed between the two groups in validation cohort (log-rank test, P = 0.001) (Fig. 5b). Table 5 showed the selected prediction parameters in RACIM-classified high and low-risk groups.
Table 5 Selected prediction parameters in RACIM-classified high and low-risk groups.
To test the ability of the RACIM to identify patients who may benefit from postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy, subgroup analyses of patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy were further performed. Notably, in the RACIM-classified high-risk group, postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy was significantly associated with a treatment benefit (P = 0.036), while adjuvant chemotherapy did not improve survival in any of the 204 patients (P = 0.400) or in patients with any high-risk clinicopathological features (P = 0.400, Fig. 6).
Fig. 5
The Kaplan Meier survival analysis curve stratified the prognosis of patients according to the RACIM-based classifier. (a) Training cohort. (b) Validation cohort.
Fig. 6
Effect of postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy in different subgroups, which were stratified by the receipt of chemotherapy. (a) All cases group. (b) RACIM-classified high risk group. (c) Any high-risk clinicopathological features group.
Model interpretability with SHAP
In this study, we employed the SHAP algorithm to endow our RACIM with global and local interpretability. As observed in the plot, the SDCT imaging indicator NICVP3D was the most important risk factor, followed by CD105, PNI, and histologic grade (Fig. 7a,b).
Figure 7c,d shows the SHAP model force plot of two male participants who had TNM stage IIIB disease, depicting how NICVP3D, CD105 and clinicopathological characteristics affect the ability of the model to predict recurrence risk at the individual level.
Fig. 7
Model interpretability of the RACIM for the prediction of disease-free survival (DFS) with SHAP in the training cohort. (a) Feature importance plot listing the most significant variables in descending order. (b) Summary plot of the impact of features on model decision-making and the interactions between features in the model. SHAP force plots of two participants with high (c) and low (d) risk of DFS. Yellow dots represent higher eigenvalues and purple dots represent lower eigenvalues.
