In Singapore, on Tuesday, reporters covering the summit between President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, were surprised with a screening of what appeared to be a movie trailer. You could argue that, because tax dollars likely Read More …
The French filmmaker Agnès Varda, whose movie “Faces Places” is up for Best Documentary tonight, is not only the oldest Oscar nominee in history; she is also older than the Oscars themselves. She was born, in Brussels, in May of Read More …
Lorenzo Mattotti’s covers for The New Yorker are featured in an exhibit at the Italian Cultural Institute, which runs from February 6th through March 8th. The artist’s covers are created using oil pastels, his medium of choice. The pastels’ bright Read More …
Click:Skin Care Device This winter, I was in London and saw an exhibition of a painter whose work I have met and re-met throughout my life, Chaim Soutine. It was a small exhibition, in two rooms at the Courtauld Gallery, Read More …
In April of 1980, when Bob Marley arrived to headline the independence celebrations that would see Rhodesia become Zimbabwe, his song “Zimbabwe,” the centerpiece of the “Survival” album, was the most popular foreign song in the country. Marley, whose religion Read More …
It seems only fair that, since our phones keep us awake at night as we scroll helplessly through our feeds, and then wake us up in the morning with an alarm, they should also help us fall asleep once in Read More …
On Thursday evening, the Scottish police confirmed the identity of a body found near the Forth Road Bridge, in Port Edgar, Queensferry. Scott Hutchison, the vocalist and guitarist in the Scottish indie-rock band Frightened Rabbit, was declared dead at thirty-six. Read More …
Each of the five Patrick Melrose novels, by Edward St. Aubyn, has the weight of a prose poem, the span of a novella, and the structure of a vignette. St. Aubyn’s superbly controlled prose extracts elegance from the narrative malformations Read More …
The two big winners at the Oscars on Sunday night were “The Shape of Water” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” which were nowhere near the best movies in competition but were the flashiest and the showiest, the former flaunting Read More …
As all the world ought to forever remember, the White House has predicated a national disgrace in its treatment of migrant children. On Thursday, Melania Trump did her part to freshen up this self-evident tragedy by making a costume choice Read More …