It’s kind of wonderful that Nick Cave’s art—like the work of Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak—is so accessible to children and adults alike. And it’s the reason, one might imagine, why Mr. Cave was chosen to present his wild and whimsical work in Grand Central Terminal as part of the building’s centennial celebration.
Mr. Cave’s Read More
Fresh Off the Boat
Eddie Huang
(Spiegel & Grau, 288 pp., $26)
Eddie Huang’s entertaining memoir, Fresh Off the Boat, contains what will probably turn out to be the top backhanded compliment of 2013. It comes near the end of the book, when the BaoHaus chef appears on the Food Network’s Ultimate Recipe Showdown. He’s a little sauced, and he’s already run out of the taping to use the john, to the horror of the show’s producers. He loses the competition, but chef Guy Fieri, the anti-Huang, tells him to keep cooking. Read More
British GQ gave Keith Richards its “writer of the year” award for his autobiography Life. The award was presented to Mr. Richards by Johnny Depp, whereupon Mr. Richards disclosed that Life was being made into a film. This is funny because there really is only one actor who might be qualified to portray Keith Richards in a film. Read More
“A
little bit of this, a little bit of that—it’s all very interesting, but you need weeks to go through it all.” That opinion, frustrated but not unappreciative, was voiced by a matronly visitor to The Power of
Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons, an exhibition at the Jewish Museum. You couldn’t ask Read More
For years I’d heard stories about a guy who had a brick building in a trashy part of the Hudson Valley filled with the largest Mickey Mouse collection in the universe, pieces he treated with the reverence of African sculpture. I figured he was another backwoods nut with whirligigs till last July 4, when I Read More
For years I’d heard stories about a guy who had a brick building in a trashy part of the Hudson Valley filled with the largest Mickey Mouse collection in the universe, pieces he treated with the reverence of African sculpture. I figured he was another backwoods nut with whirligigs till last July 4, when I Read More
