Antique Book Fair: From Sondheim’s Letters to Brontë

This New York International Antiques Book FairReturning to the Park Avenue Armory this weekend after a two-year pandemic hiatus is one of the world’s premier gatherings of the rare book tribe. For more casual visitors, it can also be a dizzying experience of information overload. Yes, there are museum-like displays of fine volumes, illuminated manuscripts …

‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Fear or Just

Back in 1965, Susan Sontag observed: “We live under the constant threat of two equally frightening but seemingly opposite fates: unending vulgarity and unimaginable terror.” That’s true though, but with additional wrinkles that can be hard to distinguish from the mundane from the terror these days. Jane Schoenbrun’s first narrative feature, “We’re All Going to …

Will Smith Attends the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party

BEVERLY HILLS, California — “It’s the most fun I’ve had in the last 20 years,” said Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody at Vanity Fair’s annual Oscar party on Sunday. “I had real conversations about politics, life and art.” Real talk was inevitable for a change at this annual meeting of industry intellectuals. The primary cause was …

Michael Stipe, Another Stranger at the Art Fair

Inside video For REM’s debut single, “Radio Free Europe,” the band members can be seen walking in slow motion through Summerville, Ga., the home and garden of the self-taught artist and Baptist preacher. Howard Finster. A lush landscape filled with folk art sculptures and salvaged objects, Finster’s “Garden of Eden” fused regional evangelistic and do-it-yourself …

Art Basel will Manage the New Paris Art Fair. Don’t Just Say ‘Art Basel’

Art Basel currently organizes glamorous art fairs in Switzerland, Miami Beach and Hong Kong. Now, he’s going to Paris. The organization that runs the glittering Grand Palais in Paris announced on Wednesday that MCH Group, owner of the Art Basel brand, will set up a new contemporary art fair to be held at the venue …

Things to Do While Visiting Basel, Beyond the Art Fair

Armed ‌ ‌with‌ ‌face masks‌ ‌ve‌ ‌ ‌ Covid-related documents, art ‌lovers‌ ‌and‌ ‌collectors‌ ‌descending‌ ‌Basel, ‌ ‌Switzerland, this ‌ ‌month‌ ‌‌ ‌for‌ ‌Art‌ ‌Basel‌‌ On the Rhine ‌this‌ ‌city‌ ‌to explore‌ ‌inside ‌fair‌ ‌may‌ ‌want‌ ‌step‌ ‌out‌ ‌the‌ ‌cavernous‌ ‌exhibition‌ ‌space‌. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌Here‌ ‌a‌ ‌taste‌ ‌of‌ ‌what‌ ‌else‌ ‌to‌ ‌see‌ ‌ve‌ ‌do‌ …