rewrite this content and keep HTML tags By Idra Novey My fantasy home sits just over the hill from a town on New Zealand’s North Island. I’ve never been to New Zealand, however, and the rolling hills that I’m imagining are likely a hybrid of the open landscape in rural Pennsylvania, where I grew up, …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags The two medical students in “Love + Science” a new play by David J. Glass, quickly tumble into bed together and then spend five years too afraid to kiss. The time is 1980s Manhattan, and the students, Matt and Jeff (Matt Walker, Jonathan Burke), are gay men both …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Olivia d’Aboville has come a long way since graduating with honors in 2009 from Duperré, a prestigious Textile Design school in Paris. With a specialization in textile structures, she adapted her studies to make her own techniques shaping cloth. For her 10th solo exhibition, the French-Filipina artist continues …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags In 1959, a cheeky comedy did what few films at the time were willing to do: defy Hollywood’s Motion Picture Production Code, a restrictive set of censorship guidelines aiming to keep any allusion to queerness, and other taboo subjects, off the big screen.The movie, “Some Like It Hot,” …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Growing up in the suburban Sherman Oaks district of Los Angeles, Larry Sultan lived close to a public swimming pool. His regular visits there were undertaken with a degree of trepidation. “I was petrified of water, of deep water, especially,” he recalled in 1980. “When I was 12, …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Amid the costume dramas and romcoms that dominated 1990s British and Irish cinema, The Full Monty stood alone. For one thing, it turned a $3.5mn comedy-drama about out-of-work Sheffield steelworkers forced to resort to stripping into an unlikely $258mn global hit. But this was also a subtly polemical …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags In 17th-century Mexico, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a nun, a poet, an intellectual, a composer and a defender of women’s rights to education and the pursuit of knowledge. While not obscure, especially not in Mexico, she is something of an enigma, her life and work …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags “Not of my flesh, nor of my bone, but still miraculously my own,” wrote Fleur Conkling Heyliger, a 1950s author of children’s books. For adopted children, materials like books are essential to helping adopted children understand what makes them stand apart from biological families. I remember as a …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Everyone has a moment in “The Wizard of Oz” that they identify with. Perhaps you see yourself in the Scarecrow, Tin Man or Cowardly Lion, as they ache for things like a brain, a heart and some courage — three concepts the Great and Powerful Oz point out …
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags To reveal what happens inside Tomás Saraceno’s new show for the Serpentine Gallery is hardly a spoiler. Nothing could lessen the impact. In galleries of pitch darkness, spotlights pick out an unfolding sequence of ethereal silver visions, all of them apparently floating in midair.One spreads like the Milky …