Singers Nicolas King and Seth Sikes will mark the one-year anniversary of their creative collaboration this week with a spirted return to the New York stage where they first performed as a duo. King and Sikes, known to fans as the “New Belters,” will perform Friday at the Manhattan nightspot Green Room 42. HuffPost caught…
One of the amazing things about Zelda’s thinking is that she foresaw this crisis. She knew the seeds of our field’s ruin were planted along with the seeds of its flourishing. She wrote about the way the tail of institutional structure would not only wag the dog but become the dog. She saw that predominantly…
In the excerpts released so far, Spears rewinds back to her days as a preteen in “The Mickey Mouse Club” — recalling a truth-or-dare kiss with Timberlake, a fellow cast member — and to coming close to being cast as the lead opposite Ryan Gosling in “The Notebook,” a role that ultimately went to Rachel…
A 200-year-old painting left for decades in storage at Tatton Park, a historic estate in Cheshire, U.K., has been identified as the work of preeminent Venetian pastelist Rosalba Carriera. The examination was spearheaded by Xavier Salomon, deputy director and chief curator of the Frick Collection in New York. Salomon told Artnet News that he had become interested…
Olympia stares out from the canvas, her level gaze almost a dare. In Édouard Manet’s famed 1863 painting, a woman—a courtesan, in fact—reclines on a chaise lounge. She is naked and her body is pale, almost muscular, her legs short and knobby. Beneath her, white sheets are rumpled haphazardly. Pale blue and white silk slippers…