Arts & Life

No one is going to keep Keke Palmer down. The newly minted Olay beauty ambassador, recent “Hustlers” actress, co-host on the third hour of “Good Morning America” and R&B singer (her “Better to Have Loved” track has racked up 12 million views on YouTube) wakes up before dawn — albeit …

A man walks by the Rubik Mona Lisa (2005) by French street artist Invader displayed at ArtCurial in Paris, France, February 3, 2020. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes PARIS (Reuters) – An image of the Mona Lisa made of 330 Rubik’s Cubes is going on sale in Paris, just down the road from …

A six-part documentary tells the story of the great 20th-century McDonald’s Monopoly fraud case with quirky characters and lackluster visuals. Oftentimes when listening to one of the dozens of excellent investigative podcasts I struggle to commit to, I’ll think, “this would make a great TV show.” When watching “McMillions,” a …

How did you tap into that? What were some of the challenges of writing in that voice? Nigerians speak something called pidgin English, and I knew I didn’t want to write in pidgin English because even the very educated people speak pidgin English. So I knew it wasn’t going to …

Suppose that we live in a universe without “ifs.” What appears to be chance, or choice, is actually a peek into the rules of a completely separate universe that we can never access. Here, all our hopes for what might have been or what could be are accounted for; every …

An employee poses as she views a sales catalogue next to ‘Portrait de Marjorie Ferry’ by Tamara de Lempecka ahead of Impressionist, Modernist and Surreal sales at Christie’s auction house, London, Britain, January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – Tamara de Lempicka’s “Portrait de Marjorie Ferry” is expected to …

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece will step up its campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles from Britain and expects to win more support from European peers as Brexit sees British influence wane, the Greek culture minister said. An original sculpture of the frieze of the Parthenon temple is exhibited …

Feminist. Disgrace. Martyr. Joke. Qandeel Baloch was called “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian,” the country’s first social media star — a figure of intense fascination and outrage, adored and reviled for posting videos of herself half undressed in bed, mocking mullahs and promising to perform a striptease for her viewers if Pakistan’s …

If she’s going for the uncanny, then some of her many, brief plots are too flimsy, not grounded enough in the recognizable, to succeed. A seamstress suddenly “decides to give up people,” making clothes instead for mannequins, a car, a teakettle. There’s no more to the story, and it’s too …

FILE PHOTO: The entrace to the Petroleos de Venezuela, S. A. (PDVSA) headquarters is sealed by the police in La Paz, Bolivia, January 9, 2020. Picture taken January 9, 2020. REUTERS/David Mercado CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA said its financial debt fell less than 0.1% in 2019 …