This article is part of HuffPost’s weekly culture and entertainment newsletter, “The Culture Catchall.” Click here to subscribe. After it’s rained for 40 days and 40 nights in New York City, we now have to worry about the prospect of bedbugs. The insects have reportedly taken over Paris — and what better time to wreak…
Nicole Scherzinger was exhausted. It was a week since Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard” had begun performances, and Scherzinger was playing the lead role of Norma Desmond — the forgotten star of the silent screen whose attempt at a comeback doesn’t end well. In Lloyd’s stripped-down, psychologically focused production at…
On a chilly evening in mid-September, painter Marc Dennis was dining at Le Gratin, Daniel Boulud’s tony new downtown Lyonnais restaurant next to the Beekman Hotel. It was only 7 pm, but the restaurant was busy with a mix of large groups on their third martini and couples on first dates. On the walls around…
Hal Foster is one of the most well-known thinkers about art today. In a career that spans several decades, he is known for important much-cited books including The Return of the Real from 1996, Design and Crime from 2002 and most recently, Brutal Aesthetics from 2020. He teaches at Princeton and writes for a broader audience at Artforum and the London…
This year has been filled with floods, earthquakes, wildfires and record-breaking heat, all of which have unfortunately become routine. The climate crisis has never felt more real and immediate. So it couldn’t be more timely that two upcoming movies screening at this year’s New York Film Festival feature it as their backdrop. Unlike in real…