Mr. Lord was an intimate of Picasso and Giacometti whose biographies and memoirs provide a vivid picture of the artistic milieu of Montparnasse after World War II.
There is a particularly Philadelphian brand of hardy, low-budget, do-it-yourself, do-it-for-love creativeness evident in art and art spaces across the city.
Lorrie Moore has written her most powerful book yet, an indelible portrait of a young woman coming of age in the Midwest in the year after 9/11 and her initiation into the adult world of loss and grief.
"True Blood" has become an allegory for nearly every strain of tension in American life as the series, a hit for HBO, charges along under the spell of its own unmodulated id.
"The September Issue" has little to say about fashion, the real ins and outs of publishing or the inner workings of the magazine's meanie-in-chief, Anna Wintour.
After giving up producing movies in midlife and reinventing himself as a best-selling author, television personality and reporter, Mr. Dunne's celebrity often outshone that of his subjects.
At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a backstage tour of the making of Duchamp's last work.
A cleverly named and impressively designed museum a half-hour's drive from Philadelphia serves as a a shrine to devotees of the Three Stooges.
A show of brash, boisterous American painting from the first half of the 20th century, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
There is a particularly Philadelphian brand of hardy, low-budget, do-it-yourself, do-it-for-love creativeness evident in art and art spaces across the city.
The Metropolitan Opera is offering outdoor broadcasts from past seasons to whet opera appetites.
The work of a popular stained-glass designer returns to the spotlight in two upcoming shows.
"We Live in Public" looks at one man's experiments with issues of privacy.
"At the Edge of the World" is an intrepid record of modern-day piracy and the high-stakes battle between commerce and ecological survival.
The Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has a deceptively simple touch with the quiet, stirring film "Still Walking."
The formidable talent and serious intention poured into Giancarlo Esposito's "Gospel Hill" go only a tiny way toward enlivening an overpopulated film.
Lorrie Moore has written her most powerful book yet, an indelible portrait of a young woman coming of age in the Midwest in the year after 9/11 and her initiation into the adult world of loss and grief.
"True Blood" has become an allegory for nearly every strain of tension in American life as the series, a hit for HBO, charges along under the spell of its own unmodulated id.
"The September Issue" has little to say about fashion, the real ins and outs of publishing or the inner workings of the magazine's meanie-in-chief, Anna Wintour.
By week 2 of the New York International Fringe Festival the menu of more than 200 shows shrinks to a few hits everyone's talking about.
"Big Fan" is a spasmodically funny and bleak film about the love that speaks its name.
After giving up producing movies in midlife and reinventing himself as a best-selling author, television personality and reporter, Mr. Dunne's celebrity often outshone that of his subjects.
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