South African Government Seeks to Halt Auction of Mandela Items

South African Government Seeks to Halt Auction of Mandela Items

The South African Heritage Resources Agency is seeking to prevent an auction of dozens of Nelson Mandela’s personal belongings, saying on Thursday that it has filed court papers to appeal a ruling that had allowed the sale of the items to go forward. Guernsey’s auction house in New York said this week that it planned…

An-My Lê Seeks Herself in the Landscape

An-My Lê Seeks Herself in the Landscape

The artist An-My Lê insists that she doesn’t photograph war. For much of her career, Lê has photographed the many preambles and the long wake of violent combat: Vietnam War re-enactments in the forests of Virginia; training exercises in the California desert for Marines headed to Iraq and Afghanistan; and the American military’s “peacetime” activities…

How ‘Last One Laughing’ Took Over (Most of) the World

How ‘Last One Laughing’ Took Over (Most of) the World

In early 2016, James Farrell, then the head of content at Amazon Studios for Japan, was looking for original programming that could help the streamer gain a foothold in the region. After months of searching, Farrell recalled recently, he was open to any concept, no matter how strange or unconventional. Then, over a late night…

‘Terce’ Review: How the Other Half Prays, in a Reimagined Mass

‘Terce’ Review: How the Other Half Prays, in a Reimagined Mass

And it’s more of a spectacle than a service. Instead of emulating a leader-follower dichotomy, “Terce” draws from the talents and experiences of a singing, dancing and playing ensemble of 38 “caregivers and makers” — some professional and even virtuosic like Christian, some amateur and unpolished. Keyboards, guitars, woodwinds, strings and percussion are part of…

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