The Met will acquire some 14,000 prints and 23,000 negatives from Donna Van Der Zee, the photographer’s widow, and the James Van Der Zee Institute, which was established to safeguard his legacy but has been dormant since the 1980s. The Met’s conservation department encountered this problem previously with the first photographic archive it acquired, of […]
The disruption came during the peak holiday season, with Amazon already dealing with more complicated and expensive logistics during a labor shortage. Amazon Web Services began reporting increased “error rates” in its cloud operations on Tuesday morning. Some said managers had sent them on their lunch breaks an hour early, in the hopes that the […]
Or so it seemed this weekend, when a series of viral TikTok videos involving an $825 Chanel Advent calendar and the disappointed customer who bought it went viral, inspiring a multitude of users to call foul on the brand. 3, Elise Harmon, a Tiktoker in California, posted a video of herself unboxing a Chanel Advent […]
In Pacifico’s debut, “The Story of My Purity,” the protagonist is an editor at a hard-right Catholic publishing house; he’s obsessed with Judaism to the point of antisemitism and with his virginal sister-in-law’s breasts to the point of impotence. Pacifico’s third novel, “The Women I Love,” finds the writer in a more contemplative, even melancholy […]
To watch Antony Sher onstage was an uncommonly visceral experience. I mean a physical response, the kind that registers in your muscles, your stomach, your bones. Yet the concentration and physiological specificity with which he embodied characters, from power-hungry medieval monarchs to a 20th-century sensualist painter, made you tense up in anatomical empathy. After seeing […]
These were just some pieces of the thousands of dollars’ worth of Golden Age Hollywood memorabilia that Christopher and Susan Edwards had amassed by the time they turned themselves over to police in London on Oct. The reclusive British couple, who were convicted the next year of murdering Susan’s elderly parents and sentenced to a […]
But Mr. Smollett sought early in his testimony to indicate just how happy he had been with his role on the show and, asked directly, said he had no problem with Fox. Over the course of the trial, prosecutors have sought to paint a picture of the attack as a bid for publicity, pointing to […]
When she learned the news — announced on Monday by the University of Louisville, which administers the award — Neuwirth, 53, was on the phone with someone else and didn’t know how to respond to a mysterious call. The work — a subversive blurring of genre, time and politics reflecting on how little has changed […]
NASHVILLE — Stonewall Jackson, the honky-tonk singer who overcame an abusive, hardscrabble childhood and went on to enjoy a long, successful career in country music, including more than 60 years as a member of the cast of the Grand Ole Opry, died on Saturday in Nashville. “A Wound Time Can’t Erase” was the 11th in […]
Antony Sher, an actor known for his masterly interpretations of Shakespeare’s great characters and for his versatility, died on Thursday at his home in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. The cause was cancer, said the Royal Shakespeare Company, with which Mr. Sher had been closely associated for more than four decades. In The Times of London, Sheridan Morely […]
They, in this case, are Susan and Christopher Edwards of Nottinghamshire, England, who are played, in a coup of casting, by Olivia Colman and David Thewlis. The Edwardses claimed that Susan’s mother had shot her husband and that Susan, who hated her abusive parents, had been provoked into shooting her mother — a crime of […]
With music and lyrics by the brothers Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick and a book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, “Mrs. And speaking of shadows, there is the outsize one of the incomparable Robin Williams. In the film, Williams brought his endearing playfulness to the role of Daniel Hillard, a struggling actor who lacks discipline […]
The star anchor Chris Cuomo was fired by CNN on Saturday, completing a stunning downfall for the network’s top-rated anchor amid an ongoing inquiry into his efforts to help his brother, Andrew M. But the anchor was suspended on Tuesday after a new batch of testimony and text messages, released by the New York attorney […]
opening as visitors crowded in to admire — and consider buying — pieces by the tapestry artist Qualeasha Wood, whose work is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the past, Patrick would not have been eligible to participate in the fair, because her New York gallery has no permanent physical space. […]
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus could be dangerous enough to disrupt the lives of virtually everyone on the planet. At this point, no one really knows. It is the time of year when forecasters fire up their algorithms and release streams of projections that will tell you precisely where the S&P 500 will close […]
The movie’s subtle conclusion has a “big reveal” that takes a moment to comprehend — probably not the grand gesture you might expect from the story’s battle of wills. Adapted from Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel, the movie begins with two rancher brothers, Phil , move in with them. We hear that Phil dies from anthrax, […]
On paper, it seems preposterous to imagine that Steven Spielberg’s new big-screen take on the material, in theaters Dec. But now, after a rapturously received premiere in New York City this week and a strong burst of initial reviews, I’ve come to think that “West Side Story” can manage what was formerly impossible. After the […]
We are back for our third annual ranking of the new original Netflix Christmas films, and the news is good: After last season’s dull vintage, Netflix has gotten back on track and improved its batting average. Hulu scored with the lesbian romantic comedy “Happiest Season” last year, and now Netflix is striking back with a […]
On a frigid February night in 2017, Arca and a cabal of fashion and nightlife icons strolled into the Lower East Side basement dive bar Home Sweet Home. Only a handful of people in the crowd knew who she was — at the time, she was mostly an experimental electronic producer with a reputation for […]
One of the most popular shows of the past 50 years — previously inspiring two big-budget movies and a 1999 TV adaptation — “Annie” is a staple of touring companies and regional theaters, and has received multiple Broadway revivals. If anything, after another hard year of Covid restrictions and political upheaval, it was a treat […]