By RICHARD B. WOODWARD Future retrospectives honoring Mike Kelley, who died last week at the age of 57, reportedly a suicide, will be tricky to organize and assess. A Los Angeles artist who gave that city’s art establishment a bursting sense of pride for having nurtured such an obstreperous talent, he earned his celebrity status [...]
By ALEXANDRA LEVIT Q: I recently took a job as a customer service rep for a family owned company. The position and salary were discussed at the interview and were written out in my employee handbook. I began on a Wednesday, worked Thursday and Friday. On Monday morning, two members of my department and a [...]
By FRANCES DINKELSPIEL For the past 17 years, the venture capital firm Accel Partners has thrown a hot-ticket party at the World Economic Forum. Held in the modern Kirchner Museum in Davos, Switzerland, the party draws heads of state, leading executives from technology and media companies, and the occasional celebrity. For the past 17 years, [...]
Story By: by Peter O’Dowd A supporter at a Mitt Romney rally Monday in Mesa, Ariz. The city was founded by Mormons and has a large Mormon population. Karen Johnson, from Linden, Ariz., supports the candidacy of Ron Paul. She says Mitt Romney shares her faith, but not her politics. Johnson has a laundry list [...]
By JOHN ANDERSON The best way to think about the Madonna-directed “W.E.” is not to think about it too much. A disjointed diptych inspired by the largely unlamented Duchess of Windsor, it contains little that’s original or insightful about the American adventuress Wallis Simpson, or her empire-rattling love for Edward VIII. The film’s parallel narrative, [...]
By JEN RENZI Graham Haber/The Morgan Library & Museum ‘The room feels opulent and yet restrained,’ said Ms. Selldorf. ‘It leaves me refreshed and calm. You won’t catch Annabelle Selldorf browsing a Kindle any time soon. “I know I’m old-fashioned, but there’s just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information [...]
CNN’s Deanna Proeller contributed to this report.
By LAUREN WEBER Plotting a new career move? New forecasts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics may provide clues about the fastest-growing fields this decade. Assuming a full-employment economy with an unemployment rate of 5.2% by 2020, the BLS expects total U.S. employment to rise 14.3% over the current decade, resulting in 20.5 million new [...]
“Unorthodox:” A woman’s journey from repression to freedomSarah B. Weir ("Yahoo Canada," February 9, 2012) Growing up, Deborah Feldman had to wear skirts that covered her ankles and high-necked blouses made of woven fabric so they wouldn’t cling to her body. She wasn’t allowed to read books in English because her grandfather, with whom she [...]
By ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE The Metropolitan Museum of Art The History, Landscape and National Identity gallery of the new American Wing, featuring ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’ (1851) by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. New York In case anyone has forgotten, in the rash of overwrought, over-the-top museum additions following but never equaling Frank Gehry’s spectacularly successful Bilbao [...]