Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about how they had met in a psychiatric hospital.
Category: Content Type: Personal Profile
-
Gabby Windey of ‘Traitors’ Walks Into a Lesbian Bar
They’re all Gabby Windey, the reality television star whose latest turn is on the cult hit “The Traitors.”
-
George Clooney Is Making His Broadway Debut With ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’
He is making his Broadway debut with a stage version of his 2005 movie “Good Night, and Good Luck.” He’s ready, but also terrified.
-
Three of Dawoud Bey’s Favorite Artworks
The photographer discusses Alice Neel, Walker Evans and the way he brings Black gestures and history to the foreground of his portraits.
-
Drawing From Bob Dylan’s Songbook, Learning Lessons in Mortality
Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country” and its passage through Broadway’s pandemic shutdown.
-
“No Other Land” Is the Oscar-Nominated Film That No Studio Will Touch
“No Other Land,” about the destruction of a village in the occupied West Bank, is one of the year’s most acclaimed films. Still, U.S. studios are unwilling to distribute it.
-
With ‘Companion’ and ‘Novocaine,’ Jack Quaid Makes Comedy Painless
With his movies “Companion” and “Novocaine,” the young actor is showing he can do comedy, pain and a mix of the two.
-
A New Documentary Uncovers One of Pop’s Tragic Mysteries: Q Lazzarus
Her haunting song “Goodbye Horses” had a star turn in “The Silence of the Lambs,” but the enigmatic artist behind it seemingly vanished for decades after.
-
The ‘Saturday Night Live’ Photographer Who Has Captured Every Host Since 2000
The woman who has photographed 25 years of “S.N.L.” hosts knows how to coax playful shots out of Kim Kardashian, Helen Mirren and Donald Trump.
-
At 30, the Jazz Gallery Remains a Force. Rio Sakairi Is Its Heart.
The nonprofit venue’s artistic director has long booked and guided artists from her gut.
-
Lea Salonga Is Never Getting Tired of Sondheim
The Tony-winning actress co-stars with Bernadette Peters in “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends,” a show that is letting her surprise audiences with her comedy chops.
-
Chiwetel Ejiofor on the Shakespeare Play That ‘Revolutionized’ Him
The “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” actor talks about the ways John Coltrane, Paul Cézanne and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie influence him.