Picasso Painting of a Lover in a Beret Brings $69.4 Million
“Femme au Béret et à la Robe Quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter),” from 1937, showed the continuing strength of Picasso in an auction at Sotheby’s.
Why listening to local music matters
In a town or city with a robust scene, the concertgoers become stakeholders in the culture.
Can Blockbuster “Panther” Movie Save Movie Theatre Business?
A movie with this type of drawing power couldn't come at a better time for movie theater investors. Changing consumer demand has pummeled theater investments in recent times. While the S&P 500 gained 29% over the past three years, stocks for the largest film exhibitors have taken it on the chin.
John Zorn’s Club the Stone Begins a New Life on the Other Side of Town
After 13 years in the East Village, the saxophonist is embracing better acoustics (and fewer aromatics) at the New School.
How ABT’s Isabella Boylston Became Jennifer Lawrence’s Dance Stand-In
“I think they were really committed to being as accurate as possible, so they wanted a principal dancer, a real ballerina,” Boylston says. “Justin Peck, the choreographer, is a good friend of mine — we had worked together before on our own film that premiered at Tribeca Film Festival a couple of years ago. He called me and was like, ‘I think you’d be a great fit for this project.’ And I was like, Francis Lawrence? Jen Lawrence? Sign me up.”
Up Next: A College Wrestler Who Is Out and Writes Poetry
Dylan Geick, 19, a freshman wrestler at Columbia University, is also half of the adorable YouTube couple known as “Jylan.”
BBC Takes On Kenneth Clark’s Classic “Civilisation” Series With An Update By Simon Schama
At the start of his series, Clark asked: “What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it.” Turning to Notre Dame, he added: “And I’m looking at it now.” Schama, shaken by Isis brutality, is certain: “We can spend a lot of time debating what civilisation is or isn’t,” he says, “but when its opposite shows up, in all its brutality and cruelty and intolerance and lust for destruction, we know what civilisation is, we know it from the shock of its imminent loss, as a mutilation on the body of humanity.”
Modern Love: Modern Love Podcast: Jennifer Beals Reads ‘From He to She in First Grade’
This week, the “Taken” star tells the story of two parents who help their child find her identity.
How Do You Measure Creativity? (It Ain’t Easy)
The wide range of approaches to creativity—from psychoanalytic, to psychological, to neurobiological—generally reveals the diversity of the field, but has led some to describe it as “a degenerating research program,” as Mark Batey, a senior lecturer in organizational psychology at the University of Manchester, wrote in a 2012 article on measuring creativity.
