This Self-Taught Artist, Known For His Art Magazine Riffs, Lands His First Solo Museum Show at MoMA
Artforum, Art in America, and Frieze have all featured in his paintings. A self-trained artist who often takes art and art magazines as his subject will get a major museum spotlight this coming winter. In its Projects gallery, which is…
South Korea’s Han Kang wins Nobel Literature Prize
South Korean author Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The 53-year-old fiction writer is a former winner of the Man Booker International Prize for her 2007 novel The Vegetarian. At the ceremony she was praised “for her…
Discover Why ‘The Raven,’ Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative Poem About a Distraught Lover and a Talking Bird, Remains an American Classic
Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a dark and melancholic tone Despite gaining national renown after “The Raven” was published in 1845, Edgar Allan Poe…
YOASOBI, Ado & ATARASHII GAKKO! to Perform at ‘matsuri ’25: Japanese Music Experience LOS ANGELES’
The Japan Culture and Entertainment Industry Promotion Association (CEIPA) has announced matsuri ’25: Japanese Music Experience LOS ANGELES, a concert featuring performances by Ado, ATARASHII GAKKO! and YOASOBI, which aims to introduce world-class Japanese music to the global stage. Scheduled…
Where to order a bubble waffle
From the entrance between Target and Nordstrom Rack, up the escalator, past the Cinnabon and across from Forever 21 there is a young man, whose biceps must be burning, scraping ice cream into rolls, again and again, and stacking them…
Y2K Fashion 101: How the Millennium Started Trending All Over Again
What comes after Y2K fashion? More Y2K fashion, of course! Picture this: a midriff-baring ribbed tank top paired with camouflage cargo pants, and a Fendi baguette bag nonchalantly slung over the shoulder; frayed denim shorts belted by a chunky round…
Seeing Truth in Van Gogh
As a college student, I often stretched out on my bed and gazed up at the poster of The Starry Night I had pinned to the ceiling, wondering about the artist, Vincent van Gogh. Was he crazy? After all, he…