The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Penelope Cruz showed her dark side, Will Smith and Jay-Z came to Broadway, and Taylor Swift became a greeting card. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best in music, film, TV, and art.
The Art of Friendship
The star-studded auction of the Merce Cunningham-John Cage collection reveals a little-known chapter in art history-the pair's relationship with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Pretty Babies
Paul Laster is the editor of Artkrush.com, a contributing editor at Flavorpill.com and Art Asia Pacific, and a contributing writer at Time Out New York and Art in America.
Photographer Susan Anderson captures the bizarre glamour and excess of child beauty pageants in her new exhibition and book, High Glitz. VIEW OUR GALLERY
Dreaming of Gigi
Rachel Wolff is a New York-based writer and editor who has covered art for New York, ARTnews, and Manhattan.
Artist Josh Gosfield invents the glamorous '60s French pop star Gigi Gaston and creates the definitive celebration of her life and career. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Tim Burton's Twisted Art
Kate Taylor's reporting has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, the New Yorker, and the New York Sun. She edited the anthology Going Hungry.
The modern master of the macabre is celebrated with a MoMA retrospective of his wonderfully warped paintings, sculptures, and drawings. VIEW OUR GALLERY. Plus, more on Art Beast.
From High Glitz by Susan Anderson, published by powerhouse Books
Gigi Gaston, The Black Flower
In a critically acclaimed exhibit on display at NYC's Steven Kasher Gallery, artist Josh Gosfield has compiled an elaborate archive celebrating 1960s French pop star Gigi Gaston. The collection inc...
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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