Artifacts from the White War — a battle between Italian and Austro-Hungarian troops that took place in the forbidding heights of the Alps — are…
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Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can Help
“To the Lighthouse” and “Beloved” suggest how to envision a world we might actually want to re-enter.“To the Lighthouse” and “Beloved” suggest how to envision…
View More Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can HelpThe Art Party Circuit Comes Roaring Back at Frieze New York
But even Michael R. Bloomberg, whose name graces the building, got stuck outside the Shed until he provided the proper Covid documentation.But even Michael R.…
View More The Art Party Circuit Comes Roaring Back at Frieze New YorkGot Masks? Here’s What to Do With Them.
As more people are vaccinated and guidelines around mask wearing are easing, some are finding ways to preserve, repurpose and recycle their face coverings.As more…
View More Got Masks? Here’s What to Do With Them.Jake Tapper’s Hero Is Embedded With the Rat Pack, Hoping to Catch a Rat
Tapper’s new thriller, “The Devil May Dance,” plumbs the connections among Hollywood, the Mafia and the Kennedy administration.Tapper’s new thriller, “The Devil May Dance,” plumbs…
View More Jake Tapper’s Hero Is Embedded With the Rat Pack, Hoping to Catch a RatFormer Dance School Official Pleads Guilty to $1.5 Million Fraud
The former official, Sophia Kim, was a comptroller of the Kirov Academy of Ballet, a school founded in 1990 by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.The…
View More Former Dance School Official Pleads Guilty to $1.5 Million FraudAnita Lane, Rocker Who Was More Than a Muse, Is Dead at 61
Ms. Lane was Nick Cave’s collaborator and girlfriend during his formative period and helped define his sound. She also made records of her own.Ms. Lane…
View More Anita Lane, Rocker Who Was More Than a Muse, Is Dead at 61Pamela Kraft, 77, Dies; Arts Magnet and Champion of Indigenous Rights
She immersed herself in New York’s creative underground, then shifted to globetrotting activism for decades as the founder of Tribal Link.She immersed herself in New…
View More Pamela Kraft, 77, Dies; Arts Magnet and Champion of Indigenous RightsAnnette Gordon-Reed’s Surprising Recollections of Texas
With “On Juneteenth,” Gordon-Reed recalls integrating her town’s school, and explains why she thinks back fondly on her native state.With “On Juneteenth,” Gordon-Reed recalls integrating…
View More Annette Gordon-Reed’s Surprising Recollections of TexasPaulo Gustavo, Comedian Who Lampooned Brazilian Mothers, Dies at 42
Weeks before falling ill, he urged his countrymen to consider laughter “an act of resistance.” One of the country’s most beloved actors, he died of…
View More Paulo Gustavo, Comedian Who Lampooned Brazilian Mothers, Dies at 42