How ‘The Notebook’ Flew From Page to Screen to Broadway
Based on the 1996 novel by Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook centers on Allie, a girl from a wealthy Southern family with a carefully mapped-out future, and Noah, a local lumber …
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In Transfixing Work, Loie Hollowell Derives Artful Abstraction From Childrearing
When Loie Hollowell and I first start discussing her mesmerizing work, which combines the gestures of great feminist artists with the luminous, inherent sexuality of Neo-Tantric painters, I can almost …
Tom Holland Will Star in a New West End Production of ‘Romeo & Juliet’
When British Vogue cast Tom Holland in its 2021 Hollywood Portfolio, the less fashion-forward half of Tomdaya—then fresh off a turn in the Russo brothers’ Cherry—was asked about the best …
In a Breakthrough Show at ICA SF, Hayv Kahraman Stares Down Her Demons
Kahraman plays with this idea of personhood in the way she layers her paintings as well. She marbles first and then hand-paints her figures and intricate Kurdish patterns on top, …
The Moving Work of Spanish Painter Isabel Quintanilla Gets a Spotlight in Madrid
The painter was part of the Madrid realists, a circle of friends—or, in some cases, family members—and artists that also included María Moreno (1933-2020), the brothers Julio (1930-2018) and Francisco …
The Many Faces of William Brickel
William Brickel’s elongated, sometimes contorted, often intense figures, possess an ambiguous beauty that are bluntly modern, nod to 16th-century mannerist styling, and offer a whiff of Paul Cadmus, Lucian Freud …
In Her New Show, Heather Christian Puts the Divine Feminine Onstage
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A new work on the New York stage by the sublimely gifted composer, performer, and high priestess of modern-day ritual Heather Christian is always a cause for celebration. But in …
6 Million People Visited London’s Tate Modern in 2019. Karin Hindsbo, Its New Director, Is on a Mission to Get Them Back
As she was nearing the end of her six-year contract as director of Norway’s new National Museum, Karin Hindsbo started to ask herself: What next? Since 2017 the art historian …
How ‘Sleep No More’ Awakened Me from a Postpartum Haze
If you’ve ever been on the Sleep No More side of the internet, you know this character isn’t the one who brings you up to the hidden sixth floor experience. …
Misty Copeland’s New Petition Is About More Than Just Emojis
In March of 2019, Unicode, the organization responsible for standardizing the representation of text and emojis in modern software products for brands like Apple, released a set of emojis designed …