“Figure out what you want, darling, I know you’ve had your eye on that Van Gogh sunflower painting,” says Truman Capote, played by Tom Hollander, in the first episode of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans which premiered on FX this week. Capote is counseling a distraught Babe Paley, wife of CBS chief executive Bill Paley,…
As the controversy between Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion intensified this week, I was taken aback to find a third actor inserting herself into the conversation: Ziwe Fumudoh. The comedian and TV personality tweeted on Sunday: “.@NICKIMINAJ would you be interested in an interview? you’d be an iconic guest” Not long after she extended…
The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has handed over control of three preserved sites in the Angkor Archaeological Park to Cambodia’s Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor (Apsara). The transfer of site management became official on 31 January and was preceded by a hand-off ceremony on 26 January. Apsara assumes maintenance responsibilities for these…
On a frigid Wednesday afternoon, sunbeams poured into Maurice Sendak’s studio in Ridgefield, Conn., crisscrossing one another with the precision and warmth of the children’s books that were born in this room. Sendak died almost 12 years ago, but his studio is exactly as he left it. There are his pencil cups and watercolor sets;…
The Independent art fair has named the 71 exhibitors that will participate in its upcoming New York edition, which is scheduled to run May 9–12 at Spring Studios in Tribeca. As was the case last year, Independent will not align with Frieze New York, which is to be staged the week prior. The 2024 iteration…