Art and Culture

by Philip Boroff Celebrity prevailed over experience at…
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Morgan Spurlock, a documentary filmmaker who captured his own psychological and physical symptoms from eating McDonald’s every day for a month in the Oscar-nominated 2004 feature “Super Size Me,” died Thursday in upstate New York due…
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The label has proven impossible to dodge. “I write realism,” the novelist Guadalupe Nettel tells me on the phone from Mexico City. One of her short stories is about a family that eats insects to reverse a curse, so reviewers refer to her…
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Researchers in Egypt say the opening of the museum needs to be accompanied by a plan to return artefacts to the nation, including archive materials. Although laws against the export of antiquities have existed in…
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The U.S. government is suing to break up Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, arguing that the sheer size and market domination of the largest live-entertainment company is to blame for an era of rising concert prices,…
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David Adjmi did not intend to re-enter the world of theater. With a handful of credits under his belt, Adjmi had sworn off playwriting after a high-stakes collaboration fell apart. Then, as he sought to fulfill one…
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French post office La Poste has introduced a stamp designed by Stéphane Humbert-Basset that gives off the scent of bread when scratched to celebrate the baguette. The stamp has a "bakery scent", which was achieved through the use of…
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Australia’s richest portrait prize has quietly disappeared.The Archibald may be the country’s oldest and loudest, but at $150,000 – and $1,000 for each of the 30 annual finalists – the Doug Moran national portrait prize has been by far…
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Van Gogh’s pleasures at home were smoking his pipe and drinking coffee. This explains the prominent coffee pot depicted in a still life made in the kitchen of the Yellow House. He had bought the pot just a few days earlier, to help equip…
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The sequence is emblematic of a significant shift in how Asian languages are featured in American film and TV.Just a few years ago, when his Korean dark comedy “Parasite” won the 2020 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, the…
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