First, imagine being inspired to create art because of the groundbreaking work done by someone you’ve never met.

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In Ben Pester’s debut novel The Expansion Project everything is off. The novel begins with Tom Crowley readying himself and his eight-year-old daughter Hen for “take-your-daughter-to-work day” at ...

The Contractor finds the artist burnt out, ambivalent, showing up for work because there’s a job to be done and kids to feed Jesse Darling’s exhibition The Contractor is accompanied by an eponymous ...

The UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls on Wednesday commended a legislative effort to repeal Brazil’s controversial Parental Alienation Law and to remove the contentious ...

An alienation clause, also known as a due-on-sale clause, is a standard provision in most mortgage agreements. It requires the borrower to repay the full loan balance if the property is sold or ...

The Royal Festival Hall on London’s southbank, co-designed by Peter Moro, a German emigré. Photo: Ewan Munro/Flickr In the 1930s, as fascism engulfed Europe, a wave of artists, writers, filmmakers, ...

There’s a darker, more discomfiting film lurking at the fuzzy edges of Daniela Forever, writer-director Nacho Vigalondo’s sci-fi-ish drama about the unfinished business of grief. Mourning the death of ...

"Between 1933 and 1940, about 100,000 refugees from central Europe came to Britain to escape the nightmare of fascism," said Christopher Turner in Literary Review. Mostly Jewish, many were also ...

I liked DOOM: House of Hope, German artist Anne Imhof’s hotly anticipated but now widely panned immersive-performance spectacular at the Park Avenue Armory. I know that judgement is either going to ...

When engaging in a real estate transaction, it's important to understand the details of your mortgage agreement - especially clauses that dictate how ownership can be transferred. One such provision ...

Greil Marcus opened his Rolling Stone review of Bob Dylan’s ironically titled 1970 covers album Self-Portrait with a not-so-rhetorical question: “What is this shit?” Marcus was writing not only as a ...