How telling. And how telling that, unmentioned by the Observer, there was a large truck stationed next to the festival offering “Free HIV Testing.” Yes, just another typical community event. . . . It is also a bit disconcerting to watch young men greet each other with exclamations of “...
"[A] poignant and richly sympathetic film.” Peter Bradshaw The Guardian “[W]ith the aid of affecting performances and a good eye for the virtuoso moves of a forklift truck, director Thomas Stuber mines the magical in the mundane.” ...
New musicalisch Werklein, darinnen de quodlibet, so 7342 bißhero unterschiedlich außgangen, jetzo aber mit noch andern gantz newen vermehret, alle zusammen getruckt, unnd von vier fünff unnd sechs Stimmen componirt. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm]. Faksimile-Edition ...
Michael Gross The Italian government has concludedan agreementfor the return of 40 antiquities from the Getty museum in Los Angeles, the latest coup in its crusade to recover what it deems Italy’s cultural patrimony. The Metropolitan Museum made a similar deal last year. The blog Looting Histor...
Michael Gross This week’s terrific New York Magazineprofileof Balathazar/Pastis/Morandi impresarioKeith McNally–which includes an account of his breakup with his once-upon-a-time partner in London’s Balthazar, the former garmentoRichard Caring, reminded me of my 2015 Departures (R.I.P.)story...
It’s the same book that a New York Times reviewer called “sharp-clawed [yet…] honestly admiring,” but it’s been updated with a new Afterword. In the original, “Gross summed up Lauren by saying that the things which made him a success like obsessiveness and control were ‘negative ...