Mr. Steckler was a director whose surrealistically impossible plots went beyond zombies to display superheroes, rockers, beach girls — and flourishes of what some saw as inspired moviemaking.
Original post by By DOUGLAS MARTIN
January 31, 2009
Greenwich: A Behind-the-Scenes Music Career That Makes Stars Shine
Rob Mathes directed a small army of pop and rock luminaries at the HBO-televised Obama preinaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial.
Original post by By TAMMY LA GORCE
Art: Border Crossings Between Art and Life
The artist Emily Jacir on Palestine, on her coming exhibit at the Guggenheim and on learning to fire a weapon.
Original post by By MICHAEL Z. WISE
Art: His Nonlinear Reality, and Welcome to It
An unorthodox filmmaker uses the dire state of the economy to describe a world undergoing an epic, maybe never-ending transition.
Original post by By RANDY KENNEDY
Hard Times Hit Auction Houses
Now that the years of stratospheric prices and high living are over, Sotheby’s and Christie’s are laying off scores of employees, restructuring departments and cutting costs.
Original post by By CAROL VOGEL
Malcolm MacPherson, Journalist and Novelist, Dies at 65
Mr. MacPherson was a former foreign correspondent for Newsweek whose novels and nonfiction books dealt with subjects as varied as Disneyland, the Iraq war and special operations in Afghanistan.
Original post by By WILLIAM GRIMES
Malcolm MacPherson, 65, War Reporter, Dies
Mr. MacPherson was a former foreign correspondent for Newsweek whose novels and nonfiction books dealt with subjects as varied as Disneyland, the Iraq war and special operations in Afghanistan.
Original post by By WILLIAM GRIMES
George Schneeman, 74, Poet-Artist, Dies
Over four decades Mr. Schneeman produced hundreds of collaborative pieces that were neither pure visual art nor pure verbal art but something tantalizingly indefinable between the two.
Original post by By MARGALIT FOX
Dance Review | Terrain: Connections Wanted: Inquire Onstage
Rebecca Lazier’s new “Terminal,” performed by her company, Terrain, at the Joyce SoHo on Thursday night, isn’t so much a place as a state of mind.
Original post by By GIA KOURLAS
Arts, Briefly: Strong Week for Fox
Fox earned a rare first-place finish on Thursday night with the premiere of the fifth edition of “Hell’s Kitchen” and a special installment of “American Idol.”
Original post by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF