While the mention of a film festival may conjure up images in your mind of jam-packed screenings, phalanxes of celebrities and even greater phalanxes of paparazzi, a more genteel and more low-key cinematic celebration kicks off this weekend as the Savannah Film Festival—hosted by the Savannah ... More

Last year, art lovers got more than an eyeful of Glenn Ligon’s work when he was the subject of Glenn Ligon: America, a sprawling mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibit displayed the work that the New Yorker is best known for—works on ... More

Actor Andrew Rannells is having a blockbuster year. He scored a Tony nod for his role in Broadway’s The Book of Mormon and captivated audiences as Elijah, Hannah’s gay ex-boyfriend, on HBO’s Girls. This fall he stars in the new NBC sitcom The New ... More

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

Back in 1984, the Maison Française at NYU and the annual performing-arts series Works & Process collaborated on a once-in-a-lifetime experience: A reading of Desire Caught By The Tail, the only play ever written by Pablo Picasso, at New York City's Guggenheim, featuring esteemed artists ... More

Many parents with younger kids resign themselves to spending their vacations at amusement parks and other childish locales, surrounded by adults dressed as cartoon characters and suffering through menus of chicken fingers and hot dogs. But now some of the most luxurious "grown up" destinations are specifically catering to savvy ... 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

“I never thought I’d use breasts as a decorative object,” says interior designer Kelly Wearstler, in reference to a recent decor scheme. “But it works when you have them in marble.” Of course, that’s Wearstler’s style in a nutshell: brazen, glamorous and cheekily over-the-top. The L.A.-based designer has made ... 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

There are few things as quintessentially American as the beefy lines and earth-rattling growl of ’60s-era muscle cars. Defined by their excesses of power, performance, style and attitude—from Steve McQueen blazing through San Francisco in a Mustang to the Dodge Charger barreling around the banked turns of Daytona—these ... More