Exhibition Review: Showing a Dutch House Through the Looking Glass

The following is excerpted from Art in Flower: Finding Inspiration in Art and Nature by Lindsey Taylor (© 2023), with a foreword by Deborah Needleman (released in the U.S. November 2023). Reproduced by permission of Monacelli, a Phaidon company. All rights reserved. Winter Seasons have a way of yielding to the next just when I […]

Earlier this week, Tupac Shakur’s iconic “crown” ring, which the rapper designed and commissioned months before his untimely death in 1996, sold for $1,016,000 at Sotheby’s New York.  A bidding war pushed the purchase price up to more than three times the lot’s high estimate of $300,000 (estimates do not encompass fees; final prices do). […]

When we first see Michael Keaton in “Birdman,” Alejandro G. Inarritu’s bracingly inventive and accomplished new film about fame, relevance, self-worth and lots of other intense stuff, he’s sitting in his white undies, in the middle of a dressing room. Of course you think, “How’d he DO that?…