charles ray, Fire truck1993. Painted aluminum, fiberglass and plexiglass, 144 x 96 x 558 in (365.76 x 1417.32 x 243.84 cm). © Charles Ray, courtesy of Jeffrey Deitch. Photography by Joshua White The only thing that’s predictable about a Charles Ray show is that it won’t be predictable. His sculptures, from a life-sized toy firetruck … Read more
The Tom Thibodeau–era Chicago Bulls were a special team, a rockpile collection of asskickers dedicated to playing a rapidly obsolescing style that nonetheless proved extremely effective. Thibs surrounded a young Derrick Rose with a bunch of incredible defenders, most notably avant-garde jump shooter and 2014 Defensive Player of the Year Joakim Noah, in an endearing … Read more
As the number of powerful, wealthy people revealed to have associated with Jeffrey Epstein increases, so too does the coherence of their collective excuse: They only knew Epstein as a genius of math and science, a polymath who could dispense tax advice worth hundreds of millions of dollars, opine on quantum entanglement, and offer wise … Read more
Here’s how twisted Jeffrey Epstein was … his birthday was little more than another reason to victimize young women, at least according to one of the Congressmen pushing for the release of Epstein photos and docs. The late pedophile would have turned 73 on Tuesday, and Rep. Suhas Subramanyam — a Democrat from Virginia who … Read more
New York — A judge lacks the authority to appoint an impartial expert to oversee the public release of documents in the sex trafficking investigation of financier Jeffrey Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, a federal prosecutor in Manhattan said Friday. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said in a letter signed by US Attorney Jay Clayton … Read more
Poking through the 20,000-plus pages of emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s inbox that were released by the House Oversight Committee last week can be a destabilizing experience. If there’s one exchange that best evokes the sickly feeling that comes from spending too much time reading these emails, it might be Epstein writing to Silicon Valley vampire … Read more
Ever since it was disclosed that financier Leon Black had paid Jeffrey Epstein over $150 million for tax and estate planning in 2014, six years after the latter pleaded guilty to child prostitution charges, I have been fascinated by the notion that the disgraced sex offender, who made little outward intellectual contribution to the world, … Read more
Washington– Democrat Adelita Grijalva was sworn in as the newest member of Congress on Wednesday, more than seven weeks after she won a special election in Arizona to fill the House seat last held by her late father. Grijalva was sworn in by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Los Angeles, on Wednesday shortly before the House … Read more
Democrats in the House Oversight Committee released on Wednesday a new batch of emails from Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex criminal who was notoriously in contact with all sorts of powerful people. By now it is well known that Donald Trump was connected to Epstein in many ways, but these new emails indicate more explicitly … Read more
For filmmaker Jeffrey D. Simon, storytelling has always been a hands-on affair, whether he was composing original music for a school play or art directing blockbuster films like Venom and Spider-Man: Homecoming. But it was in a snowy upstate bookstore, with just eight crew members and two actor-musicians, that Jeffrey rediscovered the magic that first … Read more