Novelist/journalist Tom Wolfe has never met a sentence he couldn't apply his literary jazz hands to and liven up with sound effects or italics or extend into a dizzy page-spanning thought sponge that expands and grows and swells and and grows and expands and.....(now this writer is doing it ... More

It’s been four years since singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright released her last record, but the intervening time has given her plenty of material to draw inspiration from: She lost her own mother, the legendary Kate McGarrigle, and gave birth to her first child, her son Arcangelo. The result, Come Home ... More

After a quarter century spent curating some of the most closely-watched festivals in the world, Richard Peña, the trail-blazing head of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, is stepping down from the job. But don’t worry, it’s a happy ending. Peña, who oversees the annual ... More

Just last week, Yoko Ono, the award-winning artist, accomplished musician, and cultural icon released YOKOKIMTHURSTON, a full-length album in collaboration with Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of the legendary rock band Sonic Youth. The record, with its captivating 14-minute first single “Early in the Morning,” features the ... More

The tent pole movies at the New York Film Festival, which opens its 16-day run September 28, are more than likely going to end up in a theater near you—even if it’s an art-house cinema slightly off the beaten path. The festival is opening with Ang ... More

Our minds are packed with preconceived notions when we look at any object, no matter how ordinary; we can’t help it. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans wants to change that. In the recently published Taschen book Neue Welt (“New World”), Tillmans’ ... More

Joel Kinnaman was 10 years old the day he soured on fame. He was the goalkeeper on his youth soccer team in Sweden and had just allowed the opposing team to score. “I was so pissed at myself,” he recalls. The whole stadium started chanting a name, but it ... More

"I remember the first time I saw Guillermo Kuitca’s collage work—I was immediately curious to learn more. It felt very minimal and textural, with a lot of soul. I was able to meet him through Angela Westwater, his dealer at Sperone Westwater gallery, and got ... More

"I remember the first time I saw Guillermo Kuitca’s collage work—I was immediately curious to learn more. It felt very minimal and textural, with a lot of soul. I was able to meet him through Angela Westwater, his dealer at Sperone Westwater gallery, and got ... More

When you get caught between the moon and New York City, the best that you can do is fall in love. Carole Bayer Sager won an Oscar for that sentence and for the ones that preceded and followed it in “Arthur’s Theme,” the song she penned with Burt Bacharach and ... More