Nan Goldin is going to the Oscars, and she wants to win

NEW YORK – It’s not always emphasized, given that she’s one of the most groundbreaking still photographers of the past 50 years. But Nan Goldin is a movie buff. Big time. Seeing Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” as a 15-year-old is what made Goldin want to be a photographer in the first place. She thinks of “The … Read more

Christian Thielemann leads Vienna Philharmonic US tour

NEW YORK – During the height of the coronavirus pandemic in November 2020, when Vienna was shut down and people were allowed outside mainly to walk their dogs, Christian Thielemann was stopped by a police officer in the Heldenplatz. ”What are you doing?‘” he recalled the officer asking. “I said that I have something to … Read more

Wayne Shorter, jazz saxophone pioneer, dies at 89

LOS ANGELES – Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He was 89. Shorter died Thursday surrounded by his family in Los Angeles, said Alisse Kingsley, a representative for the multi-Grammy winner. No cause of … Read more