Venice (Italy)

The 51st New York Film Festival Is as Varied as Its Hometown

Venice Unites Rap and Shakespeare, Shakily

IN A FOG

Sam Green's live doc 
explores the eerie

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 5/13/13

Support live music and check out one of these 10 shows this week.

Radicchio di Castelfranco at Eataly Now

Official Italian government designation: Radicchio Variegato di Castelfranco IGT If you're a seeker-out of strange and beautiful salad greens, perhaps burned out on the usual lettuces, cabbages, and kales, think about visiting Eataly in the near future. Because there you can score a head of an unu ... More >>

Time Magazine Names 'The Protester' Person of the Year

​For Time's annual "Person of the Year" issue, they've chosen "The Protester." The Awl announces, "Okay, yay, we won!" The spread features simple portraits of and interviews with protesters from around the world -- Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Spain, and right here in the U.S. The attached cover ... More >>

Love and Death on Long Island

Francis Alys Moves Dunes, Waves Gun, and Enjoys a Little Narco-Tourism

Enter sandman

What's Happening This Week: A Japanese Holiday Special; Swedish Glögg & Julbord

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! $25 Holiday Special Akariba Through December This more than $50 value includes a half dozen fresh market oysters, a choice of donburi (jidori chicken, grilled salmo ... More >>

Senso

The Tourist: The Lives of Angie and Johnny

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's film gawks at its stars, visits Venice, has twist

Al Pacino in the Park--The Merchant of Venice, plus The Winter's Tale

The Public stages two Shakespeare plays in rep

'Boston Baroque Presents Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610'

'Film Comment Selects' at Lincoln Center

Hail to The Victors, and revolting youth, and confused assassins

At Least One Couple Gets Engaged in Public on Valentine's Day

JoseSPlano​The story of the botched Rangers game marriage proposal on Valentine's Day is sad, so thank god NYC the Blog caught a successful V-Day public proposal at Times Square. A photographer was trying to get a shot of the Ice Heart set out by the Times Square Alliance on Sunday when he no ... More >>

Steve McQueen Rides a Dead Horse at Marian Goodman

With no Charlotte Rampling to poke, the video artist turns to Venice and Lady Liberty

FLOAT ON

Help Swoon get to Venice

BEAUTIFUL STRANGE

An exhibit where beauty is in the eye of the beholder

PRETTY WOMEN

Juergen Teller interprets the Ukraine

High Times

Smiley Face the stoner comedy to end all stoner comedies. Plus it's funny!

The Abjection Collection

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Death of a Choreographer

Thomas Mann's tragic genius-monster joins in the dance

Blade Runner

In the Mood for Love

Strangers on a train: She enters the cabin at Naples. I smile and nod, wondering if I should've shaved.

Kill the Sauce

Innovative Clinton Venetian Excels at Appetizers and Pastas

Floundering

Are biennials too big, baggy, sluggish, and bureaucratic? Reflect the state of art?

Dearth in Venice: Locals Lost in Tourism Glut

Books

Oh Boy

Tadzio, Adzio, and the secret history of Death in Venice

Found in Translation

Talking Pictures and Silent Valentines Leave Human Stains at the Venice Film Festival

Power Vacuum

'Unmitigated Disaster' at the 50th Venice Biennale

Deft in Venice

What Does It Mean to Represent the U.S. at the Biennale?

Listings

Pigging Out

Italian Old-Timer Rocks Mott Haven

Mass Hysteria

Two New Inflammatory Films Get the Catholic Church Hot and Bothered

Fling Time in a Quiet Town

'8 Mile' Lines and On-the-Job Bondage in Toronto

Body Blows

Looking for Trouble

Mann's Fate

Industry Standard

Blood Feuds

Flight Path

Five the Bard Way

Moors, Faeries, Shipwrecks—Must Be Summer Shakespeare

Panic Attack

Navigating the Venice Biennale’s Sprawling Interzone

Trailer Flash and Female Trouble

Toronto Divides and Conquers

Past Masters and Possible Worlds

Venetian Finds

Three Sheets in the Wind

The Lavender List

Rebirth in Venice

Rising Tide

Northern Lights

Taking On Toronto's Film Festival