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Celebrities set to perform and promote their projects include stars from the films Wicked for Good and K-Pop Demon Hunters.
And I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.
The painting is called El Suero La Cama.
That means the dream, the bed, and the 1940 work shows the artist asleep in a bed, adrift in the sky with a grinning skeleton wrapped in dynamite on top of the canopy.
The painting sold for $54.7 million.
That outstrips the $44.4 million fetched by a Georgia O'Keeffe flower painting back in 2014.
But the art market has softened.
The Kahlo painting fell short of Sotheby's estimate of $60 million on the high end.
And art by women still has a long way to go.
A painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold earlier this week for $240 million.
In the Wicked movies, the witch is the good guy.
The first Wicked movie was the fifth highest grossing movie of 2024, and advance sales are brisk for the second one.
Wicked superfans include two self-identified witches at a recent witch-themed street festival in Wayne, Michigan.
It's just a beautiful film, and I'm very excited to see the second one.
We're gonna have to go together.
Tiffany Walker and her friend who calls herself Mama Rainbow say Wicked is a film that finally gives witches a fair shake.