Right on time for summer, Vanessa Walters’ thriller debut novel “The Nigerwife” is the perfect beach-ready read. Set in modern-day Lagos, Nigeria, we are introduced to a rarely-known world of the nigerwives — uber-wealthy ex-pat stay-at-home wives who left their home countries and former lives for Nigerian-born husbands. Now, they spend their days in glorious…
By John R. Killacky An avant-garde iconoclast, Nam June Paik once said “It’s an artist’s job to think about the future.” Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV on PBS’ American Masters, airing on May 16. Multidisciplinary artist Nam June Paik in 1982. Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos Amanda Kim’s documentary on multidisciplinary artist Nam…
Three days after his fall 2023 runway show in February, while on his way to meet Omar Apollo at a photographer’s house in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, the 55-year-old fashion designer Willy Chavarria studied the 25-year-old musician’s Wikipedia page. What Chavarria lacked in detailed knowledge about Apollo’s career, he made up for with an immediate paternal…
MoMA PS1 in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City has chosen Connie Butler, the longtime chief curator of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, as its next director, beginning in September. She replaces Kate Fowle, who departed the position unexpectedly last June. The news of Butler’s appointment was first reported by the New York…
A new study from researchers at the University of Córdoba asserts that the Nerja Caves in Malaga, Spain, received more prehistoric visits than any other in Europe. Since being unwittingly discovered by local children in 1959, the Nerja Caves, the walls of which are covered with Paleolithic art, have been a hotspot for tourists and…