Michael
The Many Wonders of Christopher Walken
Now that Christopher Walken is getting lauded up and down for his performance in "Seven Psychopaths," we thought it'd be worth bringing back this wonderful short essay on the actor by Andrew Corsello. It originally ran on the dearly departed website Other People's Stories, and contains the best reference to Fran Drescher in American letters. READ MORE >>
Avant-Garde Persuasions
The Steins Collect Metropolitan Museum of Art Van Gogh: Up Close Philadelphia Museum of Art Van Gogh: The Life By Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Random House, 953 pp., $40) READ MORE >>
All in the Family
The Kings and I
On The Hillary Bus
I'm in her bubble today. First stop: Vinton, population 5,102. Claim to fame, according to Wiki: Small portions of the unforgettable 1996 John Travolta movie Michael were filmed there. More soon. --Michael Crowley READ MORE >>
Hash of the Titans
"Matisse Picasso," the exhibition that has now arrived at the Museum of Modern Art after packing in the crowds at Tate Modern in London and the Grand Palais in Paris, begins as a sort of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for culture vultures, a study in male bonding in the artistic stratosphere that features the somewhat older, more formal Matisse and the younger, unabashedly bohemian Picasso. READ MORE >>
The Week
FRANCO-ITALIAN relations are in the center of the European limelight once again. Just as France and Spain were about to renew their endless discussion of the question of Tangier, Mussolini sent a division of the Italian fleet there, to help the large Italian community celebrate the fifth anniversary of Fascism. READ MORE >>
