The Metropolitan Museum of Art has canceled loans to the Moscow Kremlin Museum of works by French fashion designer Paul Poiret, “in response to” Russia’s art embargo, Met spokesman Harold Holzer told The Observer today.
“Paul Poiret – King of Fashion” is set to open at the Moscow museum on September 7 and was to Read More
In 1985, at age 22, Garry Kasparov was the youngest world chess champion in history. Now, almost a quarter of a century later, Mr. Kasparov has retired from chess, taking up politics in its stead as a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin and a public enemy of the Kremlin. (He once declared of the current Read More
You’re flummoxed, or gob-smacked, as the English say. Everyone
around you is being swept along by the nouveau sincerity-especially vis-à-vis
holiday preparations-leaving you high and dry. Having turned your back on
Yuletide sentimentality right about the time movie-star trannie Divine pushed
the Christmas tree on top of her mother in the 1975 John Waters movie Read More
Every time I go down to the World Financial Center, I am of two minds. On the one hand, it’s clean and, at first glance, even architecturally impressive; on the other hand, there is something artificial and almost suburban about it. This is New York without the dirt and decay, but also without the character. Read More
