You made it time. If you want to look a little longer, just scroll back up and press “Continue.” In previous exercises, we’ve asked you to look at art that’s more representational — a bridge scene, colorful buckets, a landscape. With art like that, there’s no question about what you’re looking at, in a literal … Read more
Nothing has made me regret Atlantic Theater Company going dark for more than two months this year like “I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan,” the absolute tonic of a show that reopens the company’s second stage. Written for and performed by the downtown wonder David Greenspan, who has collected a half-dozen Obie Awards over his … Read more
Jay North, who played the well-meaning, trouble-causing protagonist of the popular CBS sitcom “Dennis the Menace” from 1959 to 1963, died on Sunday at his home in Lake Butler, Fla. He was 73. His death was confirmed by Laurie Jacobson, a friend of Mr. North’s for 30 years. The cause was colorectal cancer, Ms. Jacobson … Read more
Denis Arndt, a former helicopter pilot whose acting career reached its zenith when he made his Broadway debut at age 77 in the comedy “Heisenberg” and earned a Tony Award nomination, died on March 25 at his home in Ashland, Ore. He was 86. His wife, Magee Downey, confirmed the death. She said the specific … Read more
“Giant,” a play about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism starring John Lithgow as the truculent children’s author, was one of the big winners at this year’s Olivier Awards, Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys. The play, which was staged at the Royal Court last year and is transferring to the West End on April 26, took home three … Read more
Edward Countryman, a historian whose wide-ranging studies of the various groups — politicians, laborers, Native Americans and more — at work during the American Revolution helped usher in a more complex understanding of the nation’s founding, died on March 24 in Dallas. He was 80. His daughters, Karon Ornadel and Kirstein Powell, confirmed the death … Read more
Marcia Marcus, a figurative and conceptual artist with a steely will and a bold contemporary style who found fame in the 1960s and then was largely overlooked until she was nearly 90, though she kept working, confidently, decade after decade, died on March 27 in Manhattan. She was 97. Her death, in a nursing facility, … Read more
John Peck, a cultural omnivore known as The Mad Peck whose dryly humorous style as an underground cartoonist, artist, critic, disc jockey and record collector was accompanied by an ornate eccentricity, died on March 15 in Providence, R.I. He was 82. The cause of his death, in a hospital, was a ruptured aneurysm in his … Read more
It’s not as reliable a metric as, say, the Dow Jones industrial average, but one sign that the U.S. economy is in an unusual place is when “Saturday Night Live” needs someone from its cast to play the secretary of commerce. In the opening sketch of this weekend’s broadcast (hosted by Jack Black and featuring … Read more
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Ask nearly anyone with any kind of tenure in the design industry about Established & Sons, and their first response is likely to be the same: “I remember the parties.” For a brief but intense period following its creation in 2005, the … Read more