Why Art Struggled to Address the Horrors of 9/11
Weeks after the towers fell, Jennifer Bartlett started painting. She had watched them collapse from her roof that September, and in her studio in the West Village she began depicting what almost no one wanted to depict, in her style of solid dots daubed into a grid of little squares. Toward the edges the dots are that distinctive cloudless blue, but most squares she overlaid with two dots, or three, the gray of the smoke superimposed on the red or saffron of the fireball. The dots became embers of exploded airplanes, or TV screen pixels (we had no smartphones then);
ABC News turmoil deepens as outlet’s president Kim Godwin angers her Disney bosses
ABC News President Kim Godwin hasn't even been on the job for six months, but she has already infuriated her bosses over at Disney.When Godwin...
The Lost Leonardo: has a new film solved the mystery of the world’s most expensive painting? | Leonardo da Vinci
It is almost exactly 10 years since Salvator Mundi was unveiled, this “lost Leonardo” instantly triggering astonishment around the world. Since those giddy days, the...
Foundation trailer: Apple TV Plus series won’t stick to the books, and that’s good
One of the most anticipated upcoming science fiction shows is Foundation. A new trailer for the Apple TV Plus series landed Thursday, showing Jared Harris leading the...