The New Yorker (March 4, 2024): The new issue‘s cover features Barry Blitt’s “Slappenheimer” – The artist revisits the infamous Oscars slap to riff on the tensions of this year’s ceremony.
A New York Times/Siena College poll revealed how much even his supporters worry about his age, intensifying what has become a grave threat to his re-election bid.
The Russian authorities vilified the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny with a viciousness
Lack of Plan for Governing Gaza Formed Backdrop to Deadly Convoy Chaos
Israel has no clear plan for governing Gaza. That is a particular problem in the north, where the fighting has ebbed, and where a deadly stampede occurred on Thursday around an aid convoy.
Omni Foundation (March 3, 2024): The Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts presents the Mēla Guitar Quartet performing the Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture by Mikhail Glinka from inside the West Dean Estate in the United Kingdom. This video is presented by the Omni Foundation’s Omni On-Location series, Concerts from Historic Sites.
CBS Sunday Morning (March 3, 2024): His abstract expressionist canvases are among the most recognizable of all 20th century artists’ works. But Mark Rothko (1903-1970) also produced nearly 3,000 pieces on paper – smaller in scale but just as innovative.
CBS News chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa visits an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., that explores the trail of paper works the artist left behind, and talks with curator Adam Greenhalgh, and with the artist’s children, Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, about Rothko’s remarkable vision.
Monocle on Sunday, March 3, 2024: Juliet Linley and Fabienne Kinzelmann join Monocle’s editorial director, Tyler Brûlé, to discuss the weekend’s hottest topics.
We speak to Monocle’s Balkans correspondent, Guy de Launey, for the latest news from Ljubljana and Monocle’s editor in chief, Andrew Tuck, joins us from London. Plus: MagCulture founder, Jeremy Leslie, gives updates from the print industry.
The share of voters who strongly disapprove of President Biden’s handling of his job has reached 47 percent, higher than in Times/Siena polls at any point in his presidency.
Donald Trump’s approach to the bloody Mideast conflict reflects the anti-interventionist shift he has brought about in Republican politics — and his personal feelings about the Israeli prime minister.
The brutal cold, revolting food and beatings aren’t the worst part of being imprisoned at IK3, where Aleksei Navalny died. Rather, it’s being inside a system meant to break the human spirit.
Developers Got Backing for Affordable Housing. Then the Neighborhood Found Out.
The push from an affluent community in South Carolina to kill a plan for 60 subsidized apartments brought into public view how hard it is to give low-income families access to opportunity-rich neighborhoods.
Monocle on Saturday, March 2, 2024: On Friday the funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny drew thousands of mourners. What was the mood in Moscow? In the UK what has the reaction been to prime minister Rishi Sunak’s Downing Street address on Friday evening?
Meanwhile in Austria, an investigation has exposed the fraudulent COO of Wirecard as a decade-long GRU spy – what do we know? Join Vincent McAviney and political journalist Terry Stiastny for all this, as well as a breakdown of the Willy Wonka experience scam in Glasgow. Plus: Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco gives us a rundown of the world’s best biscuits.
Witnesses of Aid Convoy Violence Describe Shooting, Panic and Desperation
“I saw people falling to the ground after being shot,” said one witness, “and others simply took the food items that were with them and continued running for their lives.”
Thousands Turn Out for Navalny’s Funeral in Moscow
The police presence appeared heavy for the service. Some attendees shouted, “No to war” and “Russia will be free” as they marched to the cemetery where the opposition leader was to be buried.
UPS stock looks attractive after a selloff as the package-delivery leader works to cut costs and boost profits. Investors reap a 4.4% dividend yield while waiting for the rebound.
In the wake of New York Community Bancorp’s selloff, Barron’s is examining banks with the highest concentration of commercial real estate loans.Long read
It was a good year for both stocks and bonds. These five fund firms did especially well, taking advantage of opportunities beyond the Magnificent Seven.
Literary Review – March 1, 2024: The latest issue features ‘Gaughin’s Midlife Crisis’; Geology vs Genesis; Japan’s War Trials; Saddam’s Blunderers and Barbara Comyns in Full…
“The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky” By Simon Shuster
As someone who has to consume quite a lot of Russian media, I can tell you that if there is one common denominator, it’s that whether we’re talking about a shouty TV news programme (less Newsnight, more a kind of geopolitical Jeremy Kyle Show), a stodgy government newspaper of record or a racy tabloid, no one has a good word for Volodymyr Zelensky.
There are, I have long suspected, two types of cinephiles: those who think Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a masterpiece and those who think it’s a relentless bore. Early in their new biography of the film director, Kubrick: An Odyssey, Robert P Kolker and Nathan Abrams make clear which camp they belong to, describing the scene in which the astronaut Frank Poole jogs around (and around and around and around) the spaceship Discovery as ‘one of the most lyrical passages in film history’.
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