Author Nadine Christian Is Pitcairn’s First Novelist

Want to get away? Forget the tagline of a rather large American airline from the past decade. It doesn’t fly anywhere close to where you really want to go. It’s not Venice. It’s not Paris. It’s not Sydney...

‘Home Run’ Is Strictly Bush League

Every movie about the great American pastime tries to hit a grand slam, even if some don’t deserve a single. You’d think a feature titled Home Run would go big, but despite calling its shot and motioning to the...

Tribeca Reviews – ‘At Any Price’: A Priceless Gem

Some struggles never grow old and the tug of war between father and son is one of the oldest. In Ramin Bahrani’s new film, At Any Price, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, and starring actors Dennis Quaid and...

Taking Life’s Lessons to Heart: A Conversation with Seamus Dever

Every Monday night, the most impressive mix on ABC’s schedule isn’t that of sequins and celebrities on Dancing with the Stars, but the blend of quirky gusto and clever detective work on the network’s...

Lover or Madman: The World of Bert Stern

Was Bert Stern a lover of women? Yes. Was he a seducer? Yes. And was he a madman? If you take Shannah Laumeister’s appellation for him in her new documentary, Bert Stern, Original Mad Man as a double-entendre,...

Tribeca Reviews: Bluegrass, a Cure for All Heartaches in ‘The Broken Circle Breakdown’

“Will the circle be unbroken, by and by, Lord, by and by. There’s a better home a-waiting, in the sky, Lord, in the sky.” The Broken Circle Breakdown begins in musical fashion, with five members of a bluegrass...

Religion and Idolatry in Serge Strosberg’s ‘Agalmatophilia’

Edvard Munch had his scream. Van Gogh had his starry night. Now, Serge Strosberg has his mannequins, joining the ranks of these Expressionist greats with the help of his inanimate models.

Reading the Tarot: The Legacy of Salvador Dalí

“I am surrealism!” Salvador Dalí once declared. The idiosyncratic, often bombastic, lifestyle of the Spanish artist who could recall in boundless detail his experiences as a fetus has exasperated and fascinated...

’56 Up’ Continues A Masterful Portrait of Humanity

Nearly half a century has passed since the Up Series first focused its lens on 14 wide-eyed subjects — then, seven-year-old children (10 boys, four girls) growing up in 1960s Britain. Originally started as an...

Into the Void and Beyond: ‘Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925’