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Rachel Syme is the former culture editor of The Daily Beast and now writes regularly about the arts.
This week, the iPad finally appeared, Ugly Betty met its maker, and Justin Timberlake belted one out for Haiti. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
You Ripped a Picasso?!
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This week, a woman accidentally tore a $130 million painting. From a broken Michelangelo to an erased Shakespeare portrait, VIEW OUR GALLERY of expensive art world accidents.
Go see Joyce DiDonato in The Barber of Seville at The Met. She is brilliant.
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David Hyde Pierce is an Emmy and Tony Award-Winning Actor best known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier. His film credits include: Sleepless in Seattle, Little Man Tate, Nixon, and Down with Love. Pierce has appeared on stage in Spamalot and Curtains.
There is a new Robert Frank exhibition opening at The Met. It's his works from his trip across America in black and white. I'm a big fan of his photography, and he was the photographer of the Beat movement that I was always a big fan of ...
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Jude Law is an Academy Award nominated actor, producer and director. He won a BAFTA in 2000 for his role in The Talented Mr. Ripley. He is currently starring in Broadway’s Hamlet.
Robert Frank's The Americans at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is not only a dazzling retropsective of one of the country's seminal artists and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the book that changed photography, it is als...
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A producer and director of non-fiction films and television, R.J. Cutler most recently directed and produced The September Issue about legendary Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. He began his career producing The War Room, the Oscar-nominated documentary about Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign for the presidency directed by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.
The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the early '70s, a group of young artists (I was one of them) challenged the minimalist/conceptual hegemony by embracing imagery in all its complexity and complicity...
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David Salle is a painter who lives in New York. Major exhibitions of his work have taken place in museums throughout Europe and America.
Behind the Brooke Astor Affair
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Michael Gross is the author of 740 Park, Model and the forthcoming Rogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum. A Contributing Editor of Travel & Leisure, he also writes the blog gipebox at mgross.com.
New York high society has reasserted itself in the tawdry battle for Astor's millions.
What Are We About to Pass?
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Divya Gugnani is the CEO and founder of BehindtheBurner.com, an emerging culinary media brand that creates expert-based content about food, wine, mixology, and nutrition.
How Barack Beat Bibi
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Obama Makes History
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A Lasting Legacy?
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