-
Biden Prepares Quick, Rescheduled Visit to Germany, a Key Ally
The president’s hastily rescheduled trip to Berlin will last less than a day. The German government has trimmed back its celebrations accordingly.
-
Meloni’s Balancing Act: Centrist Abroad, Right Wing at Home
New policies on surrogate births and the treatment of asylum seekers, while largely symbolic, are designed to shore up her right-wing flank in Italy, analysts say.
-
Egypt Replaces Its Powerful Spy Chief, a Key Gaza Mediator
Gen. Abbas Kamel, a longtime confidant of Egypt’s president, oversaw the country’s most important international relationships and helped maintain the president’s authoritarian grip.
-
Art Show of the Season? Glow-in-the-Dark ‘Siena’ at the Met Is Revelatory
The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met, are revelatory for their emotional intensity and 24-karat beauty.
-
Art Adviser Lisa Schiff Pleads Guilty to Stealing from Her Elite Clientele
Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art.
-
Paul Rudolph Was an Architectural Star. Now He’s a Cautionary Tale.
His Brutalist buildings, praised during the Kennedy era, are now being demolished. A new exhibition in Manhattan looks at the limits of genius.
-
Sick of the 21st Century? These Artists Revive the 18th.
Copycat classicism is here. Literary re-enactments by the photographer Stan Douglas — and a wave of other remixers — are creating new types of art around Black history.
-
Exhibition Recreating Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to Open in New York
For the first time, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam will replicate the cramped rooms where Frank and her family spent two years hiding to evade Nazi capture.
-
The Steady, Inevitable Decline: Sideways at 20
There are many to choose from, but the indelible moment in the both quaffable and transcendent “Sideways“—Alexander Payne’s now 20-year-old bummer masterpiece adaptation of Rex Pickett’s novel about wine, middle age, and a distinctly American flavor of masculine failure and disappointment—has to be a pair of dueling monologues. We’re in Santa Ynez Valley, country lodged…
-
