Arts & Life

For a journalist, reporting about people whose views you might share can be tricky enough, but reporting about people whose views you find completely abhorrent can be even trickier. Andrew Marantz started covering what he calls the “bad-guys-on-the-internet beat” for The New Yorker before the surprising result of the 2016 …

These men, personally or through foundations or companies they control, have given to arts organizations in the West and sponsored events that celebrate Russian culture abroad. Image Leonid Mikhelson Chairman and major shareholder of Novatek GIFTS: Mr. Mikhelson’s V-A-C Foundation has the goal of promoting Russian contemporary art internationally. He …

What’s on TV AUSTIN CITY LIMITS 11 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). The blues guitarist and Austin native Gary Clark Jr. opens the 45th season of this long-running live concert series, performing music from his latest album, “This Land,” which was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Later on …

PARIS (Reuters) – An exhibition showing the works of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, famed for his portrayal of Paris’s cafes, brothels and cabarets at the end of the nineteenth century, opens next week in the French capital. Visitors look at a painting “Parodie du ‘Bois sacre’ de Pierre Puvis de …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sure, Eddie Murphy hasn’t been around for a while, and his new movie “Dolemite Is My Name” is getting rave reviews. But don’t call it a comeback. FILE PHOTO: Eddie Murphy attends the premiere of “Dolemite is My Name” in Los Angeles, California, U.S. September 28, …

FILE PHOTO: Sotheby’s staff pose for a photograph with Banksy’s ‘Devolved Parliament’ which has an estimated value of 1.5-2 million British pounds in a forthcoming sale in London, Britain September 27, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson LONDON (Reuters) – A large Banksy painting depicting primates sitting in Britain’s parliament sold for more …

A man takes a picture of Paul Gauguin’s “Te Bourao II” (The Purao Tree) painting (1897) at Artcurial’s auction house in Paris, France, October 3, 2019. REUTERS/ Christian Hartmann NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES PARIS (Reuters) – A painting by French post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin is to be sold in Paris …

They’re here! They’re queer! They’re graphic novels! The publisher Abrams is beginning a graphic novel imprint dedicated to expanding the presence in the medium of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual creators and stories. The line, Surely Books, will premiere in spring 2021, and will be curated by …

PARIS — When gender starts to feel like a battleground, there’s comfort in going back to Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel, “Orlando.” The book’s central sex change — midway, a young nobleman seamlessly becomes a “she” — is a playful event, full of fantastical possibilities. It’s easy to see why artists …

You could be forgiven for drawing a connection between Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s shocking color palette and his character. It would be understandable enough, considering his problems with morphine, Veronal and absinthe; the nervous breakdown precipitated by his artillery training in World War I, and his many long hospital stays afterward; …