'The Square' Is Edgy
Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund ruthlessly roasts the art community in this loose, leisurely paced series of deadpan vignettes.
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In 'The Square,' A Scandinavian Satire Of A Modern Art Museum
The Swedish movie which won top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival skewers the cultural elite — the same kind of people who attend Cannes.
'The Square' Skillfully Skewers The Pretensions Of The Modern Art World
Ruben Östlund's latest film is a satire set at a contemporary art museum in Stockholm. Reviewer Justin Chang says The Square invites viewers to laugh, empathize and recoil — sometimes all at once.
Guess Who Renoir Was In Love With In 'Luncheon Of The Boating Party'
Aline Charigot hadn't known Renoir long when she posed for his masterpiece, but he'd already fallen for her. Curator Eliza Rathbone says, "That's why she has the role that she does in the painting."
Watch Out: This Halloween, Horror Is Back
People are turning to creepy clown faces and bloody ski masks this year, inspired by this year's great horror movies and to escape the real world.
'Ghosts Of The Tsunami' Examines The Disaster That Haunts Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry looks at the aftermath of Japan's 2011 tsunami in this brutally honest new book, which refuses to mitigate the full horror of the events with feel-good recovery stories.
Remembering Cornelia Walker Bailey, A Giant Of Gullah Geechee Culture
Bailey, who died Oct. 15, was considered the Geechee "griot," a West African term for storyteller, and fought to keep alive the community's history and way of life, especially its food culture.
Jazz Pianist Matt Savage Talks Balancing Celebrity With Life On The Autism Spectrum
Noted jazz musician Matt Savage was in the Triad Tuesday raising money for ABC of NC, an organization that provides services for children with aut
Journalist Chronicles Ordinary People Fighting Extremism In Africa
New Yorker writer Alexis Okeowo wanted to get past standard journalistic narratives of war and tragedy and show people as flawed, complicated individuals in her new book, A Moonless, Starless Sky.
'Her Body and Other Parties' Charts Dark Territory With Enormous Style
The eight stories in Carmen Maria Machado's new collection feature women in extremis — physical danger, psychological meltdown, treacherous love or close encounters of a ghostly kind.