The mother lived for 42 years in a three-story house overlooking a former gas chamber and a gallows at Auschwitz, sometimes losing sleep at the thought of what had happened on the other side of her garden wall. But the house in Oswiecim, southern Poland, once the home of the …
It looks like a serene snapshot from Ukraine’s battlefield: A group of armor-clad soldiers huddled around a makeshift table scattered with food and playing cards. Some laugh or smoke, and one lounges on the ground, smiling as he scrolls through his phone. The photograph is unlike others of the Ukrainian …
‘Grandiloquent’ Through Feb. 8 at Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, Manhattan; lortel.org. Wordplay can be fun, funny, even punny. But Gary Gulman takes it to another level with an acuity that few other stand-ups can match. Anyone who saw his 2016 performance on “Conan” in which he imagined a …
Sometimes it can be hard to hear what Frida Escobedo is saying. She is reserved, restrained, a self-described introvert. But that quiet aura should not be mistaken for timidity or deference. Despite the weight of being the first woman to design a wing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 154-year …
Leigh Bowery Tate Modern, London Note the exclamation mark in the title: “Leigh Bowery!” at Tate Modern (Feb. 27 through Aug. 31) is the first large-scale exhibition to present the multidisciplinary output that was the work and too-short-life of the boy from suburban Sunshine, Australia, who out-weirded the colorful 1980s …
Jim Poniewozik Everybody Back to Work at Lumon Industries The dystopian thriller “Severance” premiered in 2022, telling the story of an alternative reality in which workers can have their brains surgically “severed” into two consciousnesses, one for work hours, one for off-work hours. Nothing has matched it since — including …
We are looking at a man who stands on his own, arms hanging by his side, chest puffed out, face untroubled. He is an ideal, a model; he ought to be a hero. But just above his knees his legs give out, thawing into a formless muck — the result, …
‘Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment’ Through Jan. 19 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. This year is the 150th birthday of Impressionism, a movement so popular and so familiar that it can seem like some preordained crowd pleaser — all those sunsets and tutus, ready for their blotchy …
Yoshio Taniguchi, a Japanese architect who gained international fame in 1997 when he was chosen to renovate and expand New York’s Museum of Modern Art, a project that cost $850 million (including an accompanying endowment) and was completed in 2004, died on Dec. 16. He was 87. The cause was …
Entrepreneur Grant Cardone said collecting and displaying art gives him more fulfilment than investing. Grant Cardone Multimillionaire Grant Cardone, who has been collecting art for around 15 years, says he’s a spontaneous buyer. “I don’t consider myself a connoisseur. I’m very new to the art world. If I like it, …
