The Paris Games began with a new look and sparkled with Celine Dion. But the show suffered from bloat similar to TV’s other spectacles.About six hours before Celine Dion gutted out the final number of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, the streaming service ... More »
She wrote two books about multiple generations of her forebears, including her mother, Lena Horne.Gail Lumet Buckley, who rather than follow her mother, Lena Horne, into show business, wrote two multigenerational books about their ambitious Black middle-class ... More »
Martin Scorsese, Ethan Hawke and John Turturro are all listed as advisers to a new proposal to buy the former Metro Theater, which closed in 2005.After almost two decades of failed attempts to reopen, a landmark Upper West Side movie theater may be resurrected... More »
Two activists from the protest group Just Stop Oil have been found guilty of criminal damage after throwing tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh‘s Sunflowers.On October 14 of2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw soup at the painting, housed at the at th... More »
On the night of July 25, 1964, Andy Warhol and filmmaker Jonas Mekas stood on the forty-fourth floor of the Time-Life Building and for six hours, trained a camera on the Empire State Building. 1,200-foot rolls of film later, they had Empire, an eight-hour-long... More »
He drew praise for his blues-inflected fretwork as his critically acclaimed band rode high, if briefly, during San Francisco’s Summer of Love.Jerry Miller, an acclaimed guitarist who emerged from the Pacific Northwest club circuit to make his mark on San Franc... More »
Art#Choi + Shine Architects #community art #crochet #installation #lace #public art July 26, 2024 Grace Ebert More »
The museum reports having hundreds of consultations with Native American groups and says it is also returning 90 objects.The American Museum of Natural History said it was making progress on returning the human remains of nearly 2,200 Native Americans and thou... More »
This month’s picks include a ’90s coming-of-age tale from India, a Turkish noir set in a zoo, a Romanian drama about provincial politics and more.‘Men of Deeds’Stream it on Ovid.The themes at the heart of “Men of Deeds” — bureaucratic corruption; political mur... More »
In April 2019, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme were in the West Bank filming their latest installation. For the work, the artist duo, who are both of Palestinian descent, spent three years filming the dancer Rima Baransi and electronic musicians Makmakkuk, H... More »
The eco-resistance is alive and well in Paris, where the Summer Olympic Games begin today.Activists have condemned Toyota‘s sponsorship of the upcoming Olympic Games with over 100 guerrilla advertisements in key locations in Paris and five other major F... More »
Art#Alex Chinneck #humor #installation #public art #sculpture July 26, 2024 Grace Ebert More »