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LINA Limosani’s A Delicate Situation is fantastic in the truest sense — eerie, occasionally humorous, sometimes grim, but eventually calm and accepting. ...

DAVID Gulpilil has received a best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in Charlie’s Country. ...

WHY employ staff when you can recruit volunteers? ...

BLUE-chip paintings have slipped quietly from long-term public ownership into private hands in recent weeks. ...

WE sail, said Ibsen, with a corpse in the cargo. The Alving family, in Ghosts, have more than their fair share of corpses below deck. Over the course of a single night, all of them are revealed. ...

THE Pixies have always been a band of contrasts, matching simple melodies with brutal force. ...

While American Ballet Theater’s rendering of “La Bayadère” had plenty of ballet-as-sport spectacle, the leads in the story’s love triangle imbued it with rich dramatic purpose. ...

Fujiko Nakaya: Veil is a site-specific installation that enters into dialog with the Glass House, the iconic building that was designed American architect Philip Johnson and completed in 1949. The Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya is known for her fog sculptures and environments. With Veil , she wraps the Glass House in a veil of dense mist that comes and goes, hiding the Glass House, and making it visible...

For me, there is always a film within a festival that defies all expectations. Of course, to even choose a film from a catalogue of hundreds, it has to be on my radar for a few reasons (some truly mundane) which include favorite actor or actress, filmmaker, writer or producer. With Titli it was pretty much all of the above. You name it, Ranvir Shorey is an actor whose career I've followed for ages,...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A naked man playing violin in front of a downtown Portland courthouse Saturday refused to walk to a squad car and had to be carried by police. Police say they aren't sure of the man's identity. He told them his name is Matthew T. Mglej and that he is 25 years old. The brand of the violin was unknown on Saturday morning. The man was jailed under the Portland city code forbidding...

This is the second installment in an ongoing series that examines the state of New York nightlife in the modern day, as well as the development and production of nightlife over the past several decades. Each featured individual in this series currently serves as a prominent person in the New York nightlife community or has made important contributions in the past that have sustained long-lasting impacts....

The key to small-space living is generally to pare down, but after a look at all things new and innovative at this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) , even we -- small-space, New York City dwellers -- are finding it hard to resist picking up a new piece of furniture -- or two. But we're justifying it like this: If we must indulge your shopping bug, we're going to stick to the...

By David Rosenberg It’s an unusual question that isn’t often asked: What happens to sex workers once they retire? Photographer Bénédicte Desrus spent six years answering that question while documenting Casa Xochiquetzal, a home in Mexico City for (mostly) retired sex workers. Desrus, who is French, first discovered Casa Xochiquetzal when she was assigned by a women’s magazine to take a portrait of...

If you ever wanted to see the dark father himself atop a chipmunk thrice his size, it's your lucky day. Canadian illustrator Chris McVeigh has tapped into something strangely brilliant with his animal-toy relations. To admittedly adorable results, McVeigh captures rodents engaging in both peaceful and aggressive relations with the iconic citizens of a galaxy far, far away. In the series below, feast...

It was on this day, May 25, in 1977 that "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" first made its debut in theaters. Thirty-seven years later, our fascination with the galaxy far, far away has yet to diminish. While we may never be able to race through the Kessel Run or roll around in the fields of Naboo, there are plenty of iconic filming locations from the series across four continents that transport us...

The first trailer for Denzel Washington's new movie, "The Equalizer," is here and based on the provided clips, the movie is going to be very Denzel Washington. The actor plays a man with "possible military training," who takes on the Russian mob because of an innocent girl he barely knows. As Washington says of the book he is reading in the trailer, “It is about a guy who is a knight in shining armor,...

CANNES, France (AP) — The 67th annual Cannes Film Festival featured a number of remarkable performances, many of them from big-name stars. These were among the actors that had Cannes buzzing: — Steve Carell: It was an open question which star of Bennett Miller's "Foxcatcher" turned in the most impressive performance. There's Channing Tatum as Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, a physically potent but emotionally...

In George Bernard Shaw's "The Philanderer," directed by Elaine Herman for the Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theatre, Leonard Charteris (Andy Gerges) is a cad that masquerades as a progressive lover. He finds himself in a pickle. He dallies with both Grace Tranfield (Sarah Green), a widow, and Julia Craven (Darcy Porter-Phillips), a young actress. He loves Grace, who, because of some crazy idee fixee...

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Bearing in mind that the director of Amsterdam’s world-renowned Rijksmuseum calls Han van Meegeren’s paintings “horrible”, it may seem strange that he has acquired the artist’s death mask. But while Wim Pijbes may abhor the artworks, he has a begrudging respect for the business acumen of the master forger who fooled Europe’s high society in the early 20th century. ...