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NOAA Image Captures Wildfire Smoke and Dust on Collision Course

The video is captivating: Three whitish-gray geysers gush eastward from the mountains of New Mexico, while a brown layer pours down from the north like a wave on a beach. What it represents is far more destructive. Captured in time-lapse by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite, the image shows two devastating events taking …

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Nan Melville, whose Photography Captures Dance in Many Forms

Photographer Nan Melville, known for his graceful and fluid images of famous dancers and dance troupes, died in Manhattan on March 18. She was 72 years old. His sister, Gill Kenyon, announced his death. The reason was not specified. Miss Melville’s dance photography spans forty years, which has been featured in numerous publications, including The …

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The World Captures Carrie Mae Weems with Armory Show

Now, of course, the entire nation faces problems of police brutality against Black people; the exclusion of people of color from the museum canon; and the lack of representation of Black and brown in Hollywood. But those who have followed Weems throughout his 40-year practice through photography, video, installation, music and text say the artist …

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Venita Blackburn Captures the Miracle and Danger of Young Femininity

HOW TO TRUST A GIRL stories by Venita Blackburn Fiction writers who publish a collection of short stories as one of their first two books follow a familiar path: novel after compilation, or compilation after novel. It is rare for an author to ignore this sequence to abandon the novel entirely, perhaps because it is …

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Colm Toibin’s ‘The Wizard’ Captures a Literary Giant Up Close

Mann published his first novel, Buddenbrooks, at the age of 26. He married Katia Pringsheim, the imposing daughter of a difficult family in Munich. Katia may be the most memorable character in “The Magician.” His new novel “The Magician” is about the life of Thomas Mann by Colm Toibin.Credit…Reynaldo Revera Toibin is a ping dialogue …

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