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In The Tourist, "The Man" (Jamie Dornan) wakes up in a small town hospital in the Australian outback with no idea who he is or how he got there.

Arts

'The Tourist' doesn't know who he is — just that someone wants him dead

12:02pm March 02, 2022

by John Powers

The BBC series, now playing on HBO Max, follows an Irishman who gets into a car accident and wakes up with amnesia in an Australian hospital. This suspenseful six-part thriller will keep you guessing.

James Earl Jones accepts the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre during the 2017 Tony Awards in 2017.

Arts

A great Broadway theater is newly named for James Earl Jones

11:35am March 02, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

The Shubert Organization has renamed Broaway's Cort Theatre in honor of the eminent actor who has won many accolades over the course of a career that spans more than six decades.

Books
Arts

She sees life through the lens of books in 'Checkout 19'

5:48am March 02, 2022

by Lily Meyer

The protagonist of Clare-Louise Bennett's novel is a determinedly unfixed and unrooted person who marks time through which writers she has read.

Stevie Wonder, photographed arriving in London on Jan. 25, 1974 — almost directly in the middle of what many refer to as the artist's "classic period."

Half a century ago, Stevie Wonder defined what an 'artist's classic run' could mean

5:08am March 02, 2022

For the occasion of its half-centennial, cultural critic and poet Hanif Abdurraqib takes the measure of Stevie Wonder's unmatchable artistic achivements in the early-to-mid '70s.

The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis painted a banner on its building the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

U.S. Russian cultural organizations fear boycotts over the war

4:30pm March 01, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

Some U.S.-based institutions have publicly denounced Russia's invasion of Ukraine to show they don't represent the Russian government.

Dragon blood tree at Diksam Plateau, on Yemen's Socotra Island. It's one of the sites included on the 2022 Watch from the World Monuments Fund.

Sites in Beirut, Benghazi and Brownsville, Texas, make a most-endangered list

11:23am March 01, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

Beirut's historic city center and the traditional territory of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas are among 25 places listed by World Monument Watch as in urgent need of preservation.

Models walk the runway at the Tom Ford spring/summer 2022 fashion show at Lincoln Center during New York Fashion Week on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021.

Arts

From Tumblrcore to 2014core, the nostalgia loop is getting smaller and faster

8:37am March 01, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

Wired headphones are among the artifacts from the past decade making recent "nostalgic" comebacks. Fashion once moved in 20 year cycles but the nostalgia loop is getting smaller and faster,

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Arts

Kandinsky painting that was auctioned during WWII is returned to Jewish heirs

6:44am March 01, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

The 1909 painting was just one of a treasured art collection inherited by Robert Lewenstein and his wife Irma Klein, But the pair were forced to sell it in October 1940 as they fled the Nazis.

Books
Arts

A woman finds as many constraints in America as at home in India in 'Border Less'

5:39am March 01, 2022

by Martha Anne Toll

The character in Namrata Poddar's novel works in a call center and dreams of a new life in the U.S. but once there, she and other emigrants feel "othered" at work and in daily life.

John Demsey attends the 2019 WWD Beauty Inc Awards at The Rainbow Room on Dec. 11, 2019 in New York City. Estee Lauder announced on Monday that it fired Demsey after he posted an offensive post on Instagram.

A top Estée Lauder executive has been forced out over an offensive Instagram post

10:39pm February 28, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The Estée Lauder Companies said John Demsey was informed he must "leave the company, effective this week." The senior executive was with the company for 31 years.