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Nov 5, 2026, 10:05 PM

The unchecked bias of London’s theatre

Just opened in London, Speculations On the Unexplained Deaths of Several American Icons is a new play by Torben Betts that explores the investigative journalism of Dorothy Kilgallen, suggesting that Kilgallen’s own death was a state-sponsored assassination. The play...

Nov 5, 2026, 3:17 PM

Teacher of the Hearts. Tribute to Leonard Cohen

Inna Rogatchi (C). Dreaming Sun. Postcards to Leonard. 2022.

Tribute to Leonard Cohen on the 10th anniversary of his passing With art by Michael Rogatchi © and Inna Rogatchi © Getting Ready for Farewell As it happened, despite I wrote many tributes and essays about Leonard, it was only one among...

Valerie Robin Clayman

Nov 3, 2026, 6:37 PM

Bono’s Tears and The Forgettable Éire

From my personal collection: The Unforgettable Fire Tour programme and my ticket stub from 1985.

On October 8th 2023, during their 40-night residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas, U2 changed the lyrics to their 1984 tribute to Martin Luther King, Pride (In the Name of Love), to reflect the horrors of the previous...

Nov 2, 2026, 7:23 PM

The Future in Three Parts: Art Cannot Precede Politics; the NY Election (Part I)

Since October 7, a parade of actors, musicians and painters lined up to instruct the world about Israel. With the authority they gained through their art – their talent – they took on the mantle of politics. The relationship of...

Heddy Breuer Abramowitz

Nov 2, 2026, 12:25 AM

Sasha Okun: Suspends… then closes

What can I say other than I continue to be an unabashed fan of the man, Sasha Okun, and his restrained yet rigorous artwork. I was a student of his in my earlier years and my admiration only grew...

Yaakov Chaliotis

Nov 2, 2026, 12:20 AM

A Father’s Life in Art: ArtLawnik Comes to London

Oct 19, 2026 · On a warm October evening at the Knapp Gallery at Regent’s University London, I watched my friend Dr Jacob Schmidt, a distinguished Professor of Finance, investment expert and entrepreneur, do something few of us ever have...

Talyah Ginsberg

Oct 30, 2026, 1:33 PM

I came, I saw, I needed a wheelchair. Israel needed a government

Three countries, one disastrous back, a questionable eyeball, a return to carnivorous behaviour, and three cats contemplating my dismissal. My October has been anything but dull. I arrived in South Africa with a television script, considerable ambition, and a spine...

Vincent James Hooper

Oct 29, 2026, 11:19 AM

The Hotel of the Good Name

On the Parade in Plymouth's old Barbican, close to the steps from which tradition says the Mayflower sailed in 1620, there is a wall that is slowly forgetting what it was told. In 1971 a young painter began covering...

Oct 29, 2026, 1:22 AM

Yahrzeit: Louis B. Mayer

A remembrance of the man who was the driving force behind Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and of a Jew who lived the American dream to its fullest Six years after he was forced out of the gargantuan moviemaking factory that he had lorded...

Oct 28, 2026, 4:40 PM

The Pianist is now a stage musical

**** Just opened at London's Park Theatre is Thom Southerland’s adaptation of The Pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman’s story of survival. A beautifully devastating work of theatre, The Pianist, already an acclaimed novel and Oscar garlanded movie tells of Szpilman’s life as...

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