Every year, the Nobel Peace Center selects a photographer to complete a body of work about the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Last year, in honor of the 2017 laureate, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the Read More …
In the twenty-plus years since Britney Spears became famous, she has not once starred in a major fashion campaign (with a minor exception: a stint for Candie’s for Kohl’s, in which she sat astride a pink piano, grazing the keys Read More …
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Ingmar Bergman, and, for any New Yorkers keen to pay homage, the journey starts now. Over the next five weeks, starting on Thursday with “The Seventh Seal” (1957), Film Forum will Read More …
At Monday night’s Met Gala, held to celebrate the opening of the Costume Institute’s new show, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” Kim Kardashian appeared as a sexy liquid-gold-dipped statuette, in a skintight Versace dress; Rihanna stepped out as Read More …
A great magazine writer is a writer who sells magazines. Tom Wolfe sold magazines. People bought magazines on the newsstand in order to read the pieces in them written by Tom Wolfe. Behind every great magazine writer is a great Read More …
Last month, when the Washington Post ran a dual profile of Donald Trump and Robert Mueller, the paper took care to note Mueller’s daily wardrobe when he was the director of the F.B.I.: “a traditional J. Edgar Hoover-era G-man uniform: dark Read More …
In “Sharp Objects,” on HBO, Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) undertakes a homecoming and swiftly comes to inhabit a domestic thriller with a sultry sense of place. In the first episode of this eight-part miniseries, Camille returns to Wind Gap, Missouri, Read More …
The cultural relevance of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is directly proportional to the annoyance its entertainment inflicts upon the comfortable. It is far from clear that the citizenry gains any benefit from this pseudo-event, unless you count the Read More …
John Mahoney, the beloved actor popularly remembered for his role on “Frasier,” and who died on Sunday, at the age of seventy-seven, was a performer whose raspy-voiced warmth, handsome face, easy laugh, and familiar presence created the illusion that he Read More …
Late last year, I wrote to Annie Duke, a former professional poker player, about the possibility of profiling her. Duke, who for years was the leading female money winner in the World Series of Poker, retired from the game six Read More …