For the first time in 10 years, Berlin’s parliament has appointed a new senator to head the department of culture. Klaus Lederer, the head of the Die Linke (The Left) party in Berlin, has been named the first culture senator since 2006. The city of Berlin enjoys a unique reputation as …
Debora L. Spar, who studied ballet from girlhood through college, has had a very successful tenure as president of Barnard, where the students evidently adore her. She takes the Lincoln Center helm at what the Times‘s Michael Cooper calls “a delicate moment.”
It’s been a long road for Julio Le Parc, who at 88 is celebrating his first-ever US museum survey, at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). He also has his first solo shows in New York since 1973, with dueling exhibitions at Galeria Nara Roesler and Galerie Perrotin. Recommended: Noah Horowitz …
“The companies with the financial resources and the political clout often impose a uniformity on the consumption of the music they believe is popular and therefore profitable. Given the ubiquity of their total command of the internet, the “world” becomes their colony and the “popular” tastes rule, again to …
Installation view of “Less is a Bore” at KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation 2016, Memphis Design & Raymond Barion. Photo Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf ©VG Bildkunst, Bonn 2016 for works by Ettore Sottsass. In case you haven’t noticed, Memphis is having a big moment. This past Friday, the third part of the Bowie/…