The exhibition ‘Matthew Wong l Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a Last Resort’ invites you to discover more about Wong’s work and his artistic connection with Van Gogh. On view at the Van Gogh Museum from 1 March until 1 September 2024.
Category Archives: Reviews
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – March 11, 2024
Joe Biden’s Last Campaign
Trailing Trump in polls and facing doubts about his age, the President voices defiant confidence in his prospects for reëlection.
By Evan Osnos
Forty-Three Mexican Students Went Missing. What Really Happened to Them?
One night in 2014, a group of young men from a rural teachers’ college vanished. Since then, their families have fought for justice.
Art Exhibitions: American Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko’s Paintings
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.
Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – March 4, 2024
BARRON’S MAGAZINE - MARCH 4, 2024 ISSUE:
How Larry Culp Saved GE by Breaking It Up
General Electric will soon be no more, but shares of the three new companies look attractive.
UPS Stock Failed to Deliver in 2023. The Future Looks Brighter.
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.
These 10 Lenders Have Bet the Bank on Real Estate. They Are Holding Up.
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
Barron’s Best Fund Families of 2023
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.
Books: Literary Review Magazine – March 2024
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…
Comedian Who Got Serious
“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.
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Kubrick: An Odyssey By Robert P Kolker
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’.
The New York Times Book Review – March 3, 2024
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (March 1, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Yakety-Yak’ – In “Language City”, Ross Perlin chronicles some of the precious traditions hanging on in New York, the world’s most linguistically diverse metropolis…
Kate DiCamillo Says ‘Paying Attention Is a Way to Love the World’
The feisty title character of her new book, “Ferris,” has a sharp eye for detail, and so, its author hopes, does she. Meanwhile, she is on an Alice McDermott reading jag.
How to Speak New York
In “Language City,” the linguist Ross Perlin chronicles some of the precious traditions hanging on in the world’s most linguistically diverse metropolis.
CULTURE: FRANCE-AMÉRIQUE MAGAZINE – MARCH 2024
France-Amérique Magazine – March 1, 2024 – The new issue features ‘Francophonie Month’ – The French-Speaking Cowboys of Louisiana.
Meet Drake LeBlanc, the French- and Creole-speaking cowboy, filmmaker, and cofounder of Télé-Louisiane; read our interview with Harvard professor Claire-Marie Brisson on the North American Francosphere; and discover why “Molière may be dead, but his language is alive and well.”
CYRIL DEWAVRIN – The American Dream of a Serial Bookseller
Founding a French neighborhood bookstore in New York City was the madcap challenge undertaken by this avid reader and busy entrepreneur. The Frenchman has just opened La Joie de Vivre near Chelsea, a space offering books in French and English, coffee, and pastries.
By Benoît Georges
Also in this issue, Albert Camus travels to America; former ambassador Gérard Araud analyzes the White House race and its potential consequences for France and Europe; and French soccer star and LGBTQ+ advocate Marinette Pichon discusses her U.S. career and her fight for equality in women’s sports.
Art Insider: An Engineer Reviews Turner’s “Rain, Steam And Speed” (1844)
Rob Bell from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers gives us an engineer’s take on these two paintings at the National Gallery. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers was founded in 1847 and has over 100,000 members around the world.
Arts Preview: ARTFORUM Magazine – March 2024
SALON STYLE
Hurvin Anderson imagines the barbershop
HURVIN ANDERSON’S “BARBERSHOP” series belongs to a long tradition of painterly fascination with the spaces of social interaction that reflect both the physical realities and ideological aspirations of society at large. Anderson’s exhibition “Salon Paintings” at England’s Hastings Contemporary, organized in collaboration with the Hepworth Wakefield, also in England, and Kistefos Museum in Jevnaker, Norway, brings together a body of work he produced between 2006 and 2023 that portrays, albeit in the loosest sense of the word, men’s hair salons.
“Time Travel: Italian Masters Through a Contemporary Lens”
Petzel Gallery | East 67th Street
“Time Travel: Italian Masters Through a Contemporary Lens,” a group exhibition that featured a selection of Renaissance paintings alongside works created by present-day artists, was a type of paragone, except that the debate was not whether painting or sculpture is the superior art form, but whether these historical pieces—executed at a time when grand themes and exquisite craft, among other criteria, determined their value—are better or worse than objects made by artists now, when such antiquated metrics seem well beside the point.
The Economist Magazine – March 2, 2024 Preview
How high can markets go?
- How high can markets go? – Stocks are booming. But their golden age is drawing to a close
- Le Pen prepares for power – France’s National Rally has its eyes not on protest but on the presidency
- India’s north-south divide – India could be ruined by its political and economic divisions
- A plan for Russia’s frozen assets – Exploit them to the full, but legally
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