If, for any reason, you’re feeling overwhelmed or anxious about personal, professional, or geopolitical matters, a new hotline offers advice on how to handle those big feelings. “If you’re nervous, get your wallet and spend it on ice cream and shoes,” a distinctly youthful voice advises enthusiastically. “If you’re frustrated, you can always go to […]
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, NJ – The Atlantic Highlands Arts Council is pleased to announce the upcoming Main Gallery exhibit, “Black & White & Monochrome.” From an open call process, two jurors selected 40 photographs by 29 artists that uniquely and compellingly express the theme of the exhibition. Many photographers who started taking pictures started out with […]
Jack Kerouac – anti-establishment icon, groundbreaking author of the American classic On the Road, pioneer of the Beat Generation and, perhaps most importantly, an enduring symbol of cool. If a dog-eared On the Road paperback slung in your back pocket was once the ultimate avant-garde accessory, 100 years after its birth, a Kerouac namecheck has […]
CAAMP The Fourth Annual Ohio University Music Industry Summit returns as an in-person event on April 5-6, 2022 in Athens, Ohio, with an option to attend virtually. The Summit expanded into a two-day event with an exciting program of in-depth interviews, panel discussions and keynote speeches throughout the two days. In addition, the Summit will […]
Hello. It’s a project, sure, but maybe you should take advantage of the St. Patrick’s Day holiday approaching March 17 to prepare your own beef, then use the meat in whatever way you like best: for the corned beef and cabbage, say, or Irish tacos (above). The process yields incredible flavor far beyond anything you […]
Prolific children’s book illustrator and painter Leonard Kessler, known for his wide array of early readers, picture books and concept books, died Feb. 16 at his home in Sarasota, Florida. He was 101 years old. Kessler was born October 28, 1920, in Akron, Oh., and grew up in Pittsburgh, the neighborhood where he met his […]
In January, the New York Times declared that “2021 is the year of African literature”. “African authors have taken the literary world by storm in 2021,” read one headline from Al Jazeera. It is true that African writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Booker Prize, the Camões Prize for Literature, the Goncourt Prize […]
Participating artists include Noma Bar, Zoë Barker, Sarah Boris, Marylou Faure, Peter Greenwood, Dani Molyneux, Danielle Rhoda and Wendy Wong. They join the existing lineup which includes Maaike Canne, Luis Mendo, Murugiah, Supermundane and Haley Tippmann. Each work is available in an A3 poster, printed on the finest Giclee fine art paper and produced to […]
Hello. Sometimes in the winter, when my nerves are tight and the walls seem to be closing in, I load into my vehicle with the dog and drive down to the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, as fast as I can. The emptiness of Jacob Riis Park at this time of year, the unobstructed view of […]
Stephanie Selby, who was the leading subject of “A Very Young Dancer,” a book that inspired a generation of budding ballerinas and future dance stars, but who abruptly abandoned the world of ballet and disappeared from view, died on February 3 in Cody, Wyo, she was 56 years old. The cause was complications from an […]
John Wesley, a painter of flat, cartoonish figures who seemed to come not from the well of Pop Art but from a deeper, alien reservoir of the American unconscious inhabited by floating babies, rubbery nudes and the band’s hapless husband comic Dagwood Bumstead, died Thursday at his Manhattan home. He was 93 years old. His […]
The New York Times bestseller “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” written by VE Schwab is the story of a young girl who makes a deal with a god to live forever, but it has a catch – no one cares. will never remember her. Kylie Balk-Yaatenen / Advance-Titan“The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” by […]
The fun thing about concept art is that it’s totally easy to create. You can say something about the increasingly virtual way many of us are experiencing the world and the explosive popularity of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) – or seem to be saying something profound, anyway – simply by staging a Central Park around a […]
Art Industry News is a daily summary of the most important developments in the art world and the art market. Here’s what you need to know this Monday, January 31. NEED TO READ University of California Returns Massacre Remains to Wiyot Tribe The remains of at least 20 members of the Wiyot tribe believed to […]
Last week, word game enthusiasts breathed a collective sigh of relief when Twitter announced the suspension of the @wordlinator bot that had thrown a wrench in their Wordle aspirations. After a GitHub software engineer, Robert Reichel, reverse-engineered the algorithm to explain that solutions to puzzles in the wildly popular game are stored in the game’s […]
Author Stephanie Land will join the LA Times Book Club on Jan. 25 to discuss her memoir, “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will to Survive.” Land’s book club conversation with Times reporter Paloma Esquivel will be streamed live at 6:00 p.m. PST on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. The event is free and […]
LOS ANGELES — It’s a dizzying and disorienting experience, where moments of serenity juggle with feelings of disgust. Inaugurating the new Night Gallery warehouse space, which opens this weekend, artist Samara Golden has constructed a mirrored bedroom that creates the illusion of a skyscraper. Different floors provide competing images – from calm turquoise waters to […]
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With his layered pearl choker, white-rimmed glasses, ruby red lips, silver hair and lively speaking style, Alka Joshi’s infectious zeal emanates from the Zoom screen from California to the United Arab Emirates. . Joshi is used to this kind of remote interview – over the past year and a half, she has participated in more […]
Grey’s Culture Vault, which will officially launch on February 3, makes its “point of difference” a commitment to helping artists make the leap into the digital and crypto realm. Some artists have managed to figure out NFTs on their own and have taken the plunge, Gray says. But many others “are curious about NFT but […]
You wrote about your close relationship with Susan Sontag over the last 15 years of her life. Did it influence your reading habits at that time? I met Susan because she wanted me to photograph her. She needed a new portrait to promote a book. His favorite photographer, Thomas Victor, is very ill and will […]
One of the more unusual digital trends to emerge since the start of the pandemic is having a library in the background for your online meetings and interviews. From newscasters to politicians, everyone has spoken in front of their book collections. The “credibility library” became “the most popular midlife accessory” in 2021, Amanda Hess told […]
LOS ANGELES – On a clear December morning, Los Angeles’ biggest hits glow from the roof of the Audrey Irmas Pavilion: You can see the Hollywood Sign, the Griffith Park Observatory, even a snow-capped Mount Baldy, all without squinting. The pavilion, a futuristic three-story trapezoid with a paneled event center, sunken garden and rooftop terrace […]
Photographer Sabine Weiss, who died at the age of 97, established her considerable reputation within the French “humanist” school of black and white photography, which aimed to capture the universal human experience through images. of daily street life. Images like that of a horse kicking his heel, strapped to a snow-covered wasteland by the Paris […]
Jonathan D. Spence, an eminent scholar of China and its vast history who, in books like “God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan” (1996) and “The Search for Modern China” (1990), unearthed the past and illuminated its present, died Saturday at his home in West Haven, Connecticut. He was 85 years old. […]
LOS ANGELES – T. Mark Taylor, artist and toy designer for the He-Man and Masters of the Universe franchise as well as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, died Thursday in his Southern California home. He was 80 years old. The cause was congestive heart failure, Taylor’s family said in an email to The Associated Press […]
SYDNEY, Australia – In October Thea-Mai Baumann, an Australian artist and technologist, found herself sitting on a top-notch website. In 2012, she started an Instagram account with the handle @metaverse, a name she used in her creative work. On the account, she documented her life in Brisbane, where she studied fine arts, and her trips […]
Item body The College of Humanities at Auburn University honored Emmy-winning artist and philanthropist Kathie Lee Gifford and Dean Emeritus June Henton at the 28th Annual International Quality of Life Awards on December 6 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. The International Quality of Life Awards, or IQLA, proudly […]
Soulmates. Twin flames. Related spirits. The concept of a soul mate appears frequently in pop culture, albeit with different names. In both fandoms and real life, the word ‘soul mate’ seems to have gotten somewhat archaic, with terms like ‘endgame’, ‘OTP’ (a true pairing), and ‘ship’ (when fans link two characters together hoping they start […]
Now, as the stage technicians busied themselves with last-minute adjustments, Aucoin crouched down in the Met’s cafeteria, feeling eerily calm as he waited for curtain time. “For a songwriter, the most real part of the process is the part where you’re alone with the blank page,” he said over the phone from the Met. “It’s […]
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Best sales SoCal Hardcover fiction 1. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Viking: $ 30) In Nebraska, 1954, a young parolee inadvertently helps two convicts escape and become entangled in their plans. 2. The dark hours by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown: $ 29) Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch investigate a New Years Eve murder. […]
LOS ANGELES – As The Hammer Museum comes out of closure from last year’s pandemic, it has assembled a range of big names who it hopes will draw crowds to its campus down the street from the l ‘University of California at Los Angeles: Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec. And the Waters. It would be Alice […]
12D. The author of this quote is SUN TZU; the text it comes from, “The Art of War,” is old, but has become a favorite in corporate culture, perhaps for overriding reasons. 28D. I had already guessed OLD TIMEY at the top of the puzzle, an apt descriptor for those Old West saloon staples, mechanical […]
Dave Hickey, a prominent American art critic whose essays spanned subjects ranging from Siegfried & Roy to Norman Rockwell, has died. His books, including “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty” (1993) and “Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy” (1997), have won him legions of fans beyond connoisseurs of the art world. His elegant prose, […]
A priceless Roman mosaic that once decorated a ship used by Emperor Caligula has been used for nearly 50 years as a coffee table in an apartment in New York City. Dario Del Bufalo, an Italian expert on ancient stone and marble, described how he found the mosaic in an interview with 60 minutes of […]
They are a spiky and ambitious lot. We meet the poet John Ashbery, to whom Schloss complained of being called “semi-abstract” by a critic. “” Isn’t all life half? “, He replied with a consoling air. And composer Elliott Carter, who poked fun at the influence of folk music on modern city dwellers: “We are […]
The New York City Marathon is both a race and a journey through one of the world’s most diverse cities, the ultimate tour of this sprawling metropolis. That’s 26.2 miles of bridges and hills and flat sidewalks requiring about 50,000 steps, depending on who you are, but those numbers are just too big and exhausting […]
“Be open to new things,” suggested Amanda Bullock when asked what the top tips were for people attending this year’s Portland Book Festival. The festival “is the perfect opportunity to discover something you didn’t know how to like”. The risk of disappointment is low, added Bullock, who runs the festival presented by Literary Arts. “You […]
To hear more audio stories from publications like the New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. One August night in 2020, David Graeber – the anthropologist and anarchist activist who rose to fame as one of the early organizers of Occupy Wall Street – took to Twitter to make a modest announcement. “My […]
On the bookshelf 11 books to watch in November If you purchase related books from our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. As the frenzy of dropping hot books has started to subside, there are still plenty of books to look forward to in November, the real […]
For more than 100 years, a 7-foot-tall statue of Thomas Jefferson towered over members of New York City Council in their room at City Hall, a testament to his role as one of the founding fathers of the nation and the principal author of The Declaration of Independence. But over the past two decades, some […]