A Look at the Biggest Stars of Fall

Something strange happened the first time I encountered an article online that I wrote for a print magazine. The article was an old-fashioned feature that had taken me months to report, then perhaps six weeks to write, plus another six to eight weeks to edit and rewrite with the help of capable editors, copy editors […]

Alexander and Bonin, a New York gallery known for its diverse slate of conceptual artists, has closed after 28 years in business. Carolyn Alexander, a cofounder of the gallery with Ted Bonin, confirmed on Thursday that Alexander and Bonin had officially shuttered on December 31. The gallery’s closure came roughly eight months after Bonin died […]

How strange and, in the end, how ironic that a German singing group, founded in the chaotic last years of the Weimar Republic and forcibly disbanded less than 10 years later, should call itself the Comedian Harmonists. Yet on the evidence of the Barry Manilow musical “Harmony” — for which, yes, he wrote the songs […]