There could not, on first glance or listen, be two artists more different than John Zorn and Agnes Martin. Mr. Zorn, 63, a longtime fixture of downtown Manhattan, is known for composing frenzied, explosive music, riots of psychotically bright colors. Martin — who lived alone in the New Mexico desert for decades, died in 2004 […]
What havoc “a little squib” can cause! Seven decades ago, George Orwell’s Animal Farm was published in the United States. Its publication launch was August 26, 1946, almost exactly a year after its appearance in England. Subtitled “A Fairy Story,” the “little squib”—Orwell’s modest term for the book when he wrote the Russian émigré scholar […]
It’s doesn’t fully feel like the holiday season until you end up watching “It’s A Wonderful Life,” right? Not always ― at least, not for Karolyn Grimes, who played 6-year-old Zuzu Bailey in the 1946 classic. As Grimes, now 76, tells “Oprah: Where Are They Now?”, she actually went decades before partaking in what many others […]
“I love her pace,” the composer Meredith Monk said recently at her TriBeCa loft. She was describing her roommate, with whom she has resided for the past 38 years. “New York is so fast,” she added, “and everything is slow with her, so it just reminds you to slow down a little bit. I like […]
It will soon be 60 years since your first book, “Syntactic Structures,” was published. Where was the study of linguistics then and what did you see that could be done? The belief at the time was that languages can vary arbitrarily, so when you study a new language you should come to it without any […]
PARIS — Two art collectors from Texas, Marlene and Spencer Hays, have pledged the Musée d’Orsay here the largest foreign collection of art to be donated to France since World War II — more than 600 masterworks from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including works by Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Amedeo Modigliani and […]
I ARRIVE AT THE Eggleston Artistic Trust building at just after 1 on a sweltering, humid Memphis afternoon. I am met at the door by the charismatic son of the photographer William Eggleston, Winston, who is the director of the trust as well as its official archivist. He ushers me into the cool, darkened rear […]
On Saturday, Oct. 22, Mickey Hart will appear at Wentworth Gallery at the Mall at Short Hills for the premiere presentation of “Vibrational Expressionism: The Art of Mickey Hart.” The first exhibition of Hart’s visual art, the collection launched its North American tour in Short Hills last month. Hart, 73, utilizes a number of methods […]
Despite recent softening views, there is still a specific type of novel readers envision when they think of serious literary fiction. These books, the same that fill literary prize shortlists, tend to be lengthy, concerned with the breakdown of the nuclear family, and, most importantly, set in the real world. Unless, they were written by […]
“The Vessel” reunites Martin Sheen and Terrence Malick (here in an executive producer capacity), although their first collaboration in 43 years is, tonally and thematically, less “Badlands” than the filmmaker’s subsequent “The Tree of Life.” A spiritual fable about a man compelled to shoulder the burden of his community’s grief and hope, Cuban-American writer-director Julio […]
US folk singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for having “created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. Dylan, real name Robert Allen Zimmerman, turned 75 earlier this year. His career has spanned more than five decades and his influence still pervades genres from rock and pop to […]
Rita Moreno doesn’t sound 84 on the phone. The singer and actor who burst onto the entertainment stage as the fiery Anita in the 1962 movie musical “West Side Story” is still as sassy as her original smart-talking character. She dishes on Hollywood directors, laughs at being “an old fart” and is passionate about politics. […]
