Go see Joyce DiDonato in The Barber of Seville at The Met. She is brilliant.
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 ...
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...
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...
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
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.
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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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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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