A Mafia Don with a Pompadour Column: Politics Region: USA in the World Every four years Americans get to vote for a President. The last President who might have made a positive difference to the country and the world was John F. Kennedy. Just before his assassination, JFK was moving to disengage from Vietnam. He…
As megacities (urban areas with more than 10 million people) mushroom across the globe, we need to start thinking about how to make cities better, not simply bigger. When our urban pundit class speaks of the future of cities, we are offered glittering images of London, New York, Singapore, or Shanghai. In reality,…
The Great Gatsby was originally published in April 1925, which means that those who first read it were much nearer in time to Henry James and even Charles Dickens than we are to Scott Fitzgerald. And that reflection brings a shock. For just as the book survives in our minds partly as a period…
Marketing genius: Picasso at his villa in the South of France in 1957 A new tribe of hyper-rich global nomads is distorting the international property market. Like Hans Holbein’s anamorphosis, it can only be understood when seen from an acute angle. In this case the angle of arrogant wealth. It is not unusual…
Llyn Foulkes in Studio
A student critique in the main gallery at CalArts Los Angeles teaching is still top for next generation of artists Los Angeles’ art schools are the stuff of legend. Since the 1960s, students have flocked to the city to study under the likes of Allan Kaprow, Chris Burden, John Baldessari and Paul McCarthy. The…
European masterpieces were on show, but also works by US artists, including Hartley’s, Still Life, No.1, 1912, which are often overlooked One of the most notorious cultural events of the 20th century, marking the dawn of America’s love affair with Modernism. And yet, as the Armory Show reaches its centenary, the full picture of…
Since the death of Italian anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone 20 years ago, how much has organized crime spread internationally? The trans-continental dimensions of the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, was already clear to the legendary prosecutor in 1980 when he took up the “Pizza Connection” case against Salvatore Inzerillo and the boss of the Gambino…
“I call it a sexual revolution: a Catalan boy meets a Flemish girl, they fall in love, get married — and they become European, just like their children.”
Chicks: Raising Hens At Home Is Newest Organic Trend In French Capital Getting your own fresh eggs for your morning Parisian omelette doesn’t necessarily require a trip to the local market. More and more French urbanites are finding space for a hen or two in their own homes. PARIS –…