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The decade in jazz: Ten definitive moments

At the end of the decade, where does jazz stand? Is it the proud tradition of America’s “classical music,” rooted in the blues but now...

A ‘Great Wealth Transfer’ is coming. What will it mean for art?

Between now and 2030, an estimated $15.4 trillion worth of assets will have been passed down the generations by the world’s richest people. Does...

Initial deal de-escalates trade war with China

However, the deal does little to resolve the United States’ biggest concerns about China’s trade practices.   WASHINGTON: When President Donald Trump and China confirmed Friday that...

One of India’s most original and controversial novelists

Perumal Murugan, after having famously committed ‘literary suicide’ in 2015, has returned with a parable about village life, written with breathtaking and deceptive simplicity,...

A (grudging) defence of the $120,000 banana

Maurizio Cattelan’s installation piece entitled Comedian, which was basically a banana duct-taped to a gallery wall at Art Basel Miami Beach, made international headlines...

Uber says, 3045 sexual assaults were reported in U.S. rides last year

Uber said Thursday that it had reports of 3,045 sexual assaults during its rides in the United States in 2018, with nine people murdered...

What’s the point of the Turner Prize, anyway?

It was a conclusion as sappy-sweet as the climax of “Mean Girls,” when Lindsay Lohan’s character breaks apart her homecoming queen tiara and divides...

An enclosure of empty monuments and landmarks

In his debut novel, which blends historical truth with fiction, director and scriptwriter Khalid Mohamed tells the story of six maverick sisters living through...

When your makeup is the party

Rachel Goodwin, a makeup artist in Los Angeles, thinks we’re living through a rare makeup moment. “It hasn’t been this experimental since the 1980s,”...

When department stores were theater

After the hundreds of jobs going poof and the thus-far inadequate discounts, the saddest thing about the closure of Barneys New York is that...

Clive James, literary critic who took his wit to TV, dies at 80

A literary critic of unusually wide range, poet and television personality, Clive James has died at the age of 80. William Grimes looks back...

Picassos in the garage? Artist’s handyman is convicted of hiding stolen works

Pierre Le Guennec was employed as an electrician and handyman by Pablo Picasso in the early 1970s. A top French court recently convicted him...

The trees and the forest of new towers

Michael Green has seen the future of the building industry, and that future is wood. Lots of wood. The Vancouver-based architect is among the...

At Sotheby’s, it was ‘no froth, no excitement’. That’s the new normal.

Last week’s sales figures provide ample evidence of why the art market continues to defy predictions and to confound those looking for reliable results....

From Nabokov and Lawrence, giants of 20th-century fiction, new volumes of nonfiction

Vladimir Nabokov and D.H. Lawrence each wrote a major novel (Lolita, Lady Chatterley’s Lover) that was banned and unbanned and banned again before being...

Even ‘Project Runway’ Couldn’t Save Zac Posen

Once upon a time, back in ye olde days of 2002, a young designer, just shy of 21 years old, was discovered by a...

Philip Glass is too busy to care about legacy

American composer Philip Glass is in the process of curtailing his busy touring schedule, so that he can focus on what is already a...

Kanye West Releases His Gospel-Themed Album ‘Jesus Is King’

For some artists, a blown deadline is a problem. For Kanye West, it is a marketing opportunity. After West missed a self-imposed deadline a month...

Christie’s auctioned a $40 million diamond. Was It stolen?

A 17th-century diamond cut from the Golconda Mines in India and named ‘Princie’ in honour of the Prince of Baroda, is at the centre...

A new biography of Janis Joplin captures the pain and soul of an adventurous life

A new biography of musician Janis Joplin, America’s first female rock star, tells her life story simply and well, with some of the tone...

Savoring the taste of memories in Northern India

When I was a child in India, we were the first family on our street to get a television: a huge black and white...

Wine in a warming world

Mimi Casteel hates the word “weeds,” particularly when referring to unexpected plants growing in her vineyard here in this hamlet in the Willamette Valley. To...

Google claims a quantum breakthrough that could change computing

Google said Wednesday that it had achieved a long-sought breakthrough called “quantum supremacy,” which could allow new kinds of computers to do calculations at...

Leonardo, hand and mind, shines at the Louvre

The new Leonardo da Vinci retrospective at Paris’ Louvre Museum marks the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death, and gives us a rough trajectory...

The co-opting of modest fashion

Once upon a time, womenswear was rife with transparency. With miniskirts and spaghetti-strap dresses and tank tops. With fashions intended to show some skin...

How will climate change alter agriculture? Winemakers are finding out

Wine, which is among the most sensitive and nuanced of agricultural products, demonstrates how climate change is transforming traditions and practices that may be...

Meeting the Mona Lisa for an intimate (virtual) rendezvous

With a blockbuster Leonardo da Vinci exhibition fast approaching, the Louvre Museum in Paris and its production partners are fine-tuning a virtual reality tour...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors Work on Lithium-Ion Batteries

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry to three scientists who developed lithium-ion batteries, which have...

Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian novelist Peter Handke were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the years 2018 and 2019 respectively. By...

Osaka vs Andreescu: Tennis rivalry in the making?

Naomi Osaka and Bianca Andreescu had never faced each other on the tennis court before, and their first meeting at the China Open earlier...

2020 Is Coming. How Will it Look?

It’s a complicated thing for a designer to be responsible for the last show of a fashion week: There’s an expectation, illogical though it...

The unstable artist who helped invent expressionism

You could be forgiven for drawing a connection between Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s shocking colour palette and his character. It would be understandable enough, considering...

From your mouth to screen, transcribing takes the next step

Sam Liang longs for his mother and wishes he could recapture the things she told him when he was in high school. “I really miss...

In Ben Lerner’s new novel, speech and violence collide

Ben Lerner’s new novel, The Topeka School, is so different in its tone and so unabashed in its conventionality that it can read like...

Jameela Jamil Does Her Own Makeup—Sometimes in a Car

If actress Jameela Jamil seems to be all over your feed lately, it’s because she is not content with just being a pretty face....

A renowned chef inspires a culinary revolution at Monticello

Alice Waters made her first pilgrimage to Monticello in 2011. Long an admirer of Thomas Jefferson, she marveled at the gardens full of heirloom...

Amazon wants Alexa to move (with you) far beyond the living room

Alexa has already made herself at home in kitchens and living rooms. Now Amazon is trying to get her in your ears. And on...

Ian McEwan’s political Satire The Cockroach offers a reversal of Kafka

“If you intend to have a long career in show business,” Elvis Costello wrote in “Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink,” his terrific memoir, “it...

A big new biography of Susan Sontag digs to find the person beneath the icon

When asked what she was best known for, Susan Sontag, the formidable 20th-century public intellectual, essayist, novelist and political activist, often told people, with...

Overlooked no more: Mihri Rassim, feminist artist in the Ottoman Empire

Born in Istanbul on 13 December 1885, Mihri Rassim was one of the most intriguing artists of her day. She played a pioneering role...

Madonna is still taking chances

‘I’m not here to be popular. I’m here to be free,” Madonna declared to a packed, adoring audience Tuesday night at the Brooklyn Academy...

Robert Frank dies; pivotal documentary photographer was 94

Robert Frank, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, whose visually raw and personally expressive style was pivotal in changing the...

A new collection upends conventional wisdom about migration

There’s a saying often attributed to novelist John Gardner that there are really only two stories: A Person Goes on a Journey or A...

A debut novel reimagines the CIA’s efforts to promote Doctor Zhivago

The true stories within Lara Prescott’s first novel, The Secrets We Kept, are by far the best thing about it. That’s saying a lot,...

Nadal and Medvedev Will Play for the U.S. Open Men’s Title

If Medvedev wins, he would become the first player outside the so-called Big Three—Federer, Novak Djokovic and Nadal—to win a major championship since Stan...

Netflix to run Breaking Bad film in October

Nearly six years ago, viewers of Breaking Bad watched the final episode of that series, in which the drug kingpin Walter White (played by...

Google tries to corral its staff after ugly internal debates

This, following a former employee’s accusations that he was fired for his conservative viewpoints.   Google has long prided itself on a workplace culture in which...

Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s bookstore, Orwell gets a rewrite

Browsing George Orwell’s books on Amazon, David Streitfeld comes across a number of counterfeit editions, with typos galore, missing pages and the original narratives...

Swift’s Lover arrives the old-fashioned way, and with twists

As the pop music landscape has shifted over and over again this decade, major artists have repeatedly attempted to reinvent the album release for...

Germany has powered Europe’s economy. What happens when its engine stalls?

When a debt crisis slammed the eurozone nearly a decade ago, Germany’s powerhouse economy helped lift troubled neighbours like Greece, Portugal and Spain above...

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