Arts & Life

“I haven’t felt like this since 1995,” Anna Waronker sings on the new album by That Dog., and maybe she’s taking just a few years of poetic license. “Old LP” is actually the first album by That Dog. since 1997, reconvening three of the four band members that released “Retreat …

Original artworks by British artist Banksy form part of an installation inside a shop front, ahead of an online sale, in Croydon, Britain October 1, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – Banksy has set up a “homewares” store in a south London suburb, displaying politically-provocative pieces such as the Union …

For art fairs, location is destiny. The organizers of Frieze London and Frieze Masters — twinned events taking place near each other in Regent’s Park from Thursday to Sunday — have capitalized on London’s role as a market hub and cultural center. Then they seized opportunities to expand to New …

From the first pages, it’s clear the story will hinge on an act of violence. We see Darren handling the weapon, a billiard ball: “Long before the freshman called him the customary names, before he’d taken it from the corner pocket, felt its weight, the cool and smoothness of the …

Architectural feats in inhospitable spots have long exerted a powerful fascination. How we build and live at frontiers, and how the sites thrill us or increase our anxieties, are the subject of four important new books. ImageCredit The writer Sarah M. Broom grew up in the 1960s section of subdivisions …

THINGS WE DIDN’T TALK ABOUT WHEN I WAS A GIRL A Memoir By Jeannie Vanasco Facing the person who betrayed you, who preyed upon you, who haunts you: It’s the stuff of vengeful daydreams, born of nightmares. Jeannie Vanasco has had plenty of nightmares, but the story she tells in …

Roberta Bayley was a 19-year-old freshman at San Francisco State University when she bought a bubble gum pink jersey tank minidress for just over £2 (about $5 at the time) from the catalog of Biba, the London emporium that trafficked in 1930s glamour. When Ms. Bayley moved to New York …

Members of the media take photos as a Sotheby’s staff poses 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 Banksy painting of primates sitting in …

John Coltrane’s creative flame was burning at its brightest in 1964. The saxophonist had recently let go of his fixation on complex, layered harmonies, and he would soon pioneer a dry, squalling approach to group improvisation — nearly abandoning Western harmony altogether, and changing the course of jazz history. Amid …

FILE PHOTO: A screen grab taken from video footage shows a man walking with a painting by prominent artist Arkhip Kuindzhi at Tretyakov art gallery in Moscow, Russia January 28, 2019. Reuters Tv/via REUTERS MOSCOW (Reuters) – A man who stole a Russian masterpiece worth about $1 million from a …