Barton Kestle is not dead. He has never been dead. He has no plans to be dead in the near future. At almost 88, he looks terrific: thick mop of white hair, stylish round glasses, all of his own teeth. He does not look like someone who was all but buried in 1954. Oops. Back  ...

On March 19, news broke in the comics community that one of their own had passed, if indeed he had any peers. “As it comes to all of us, the end came for the greatest that ever lived: Bernie Wrightson,” tweeted Guillermo del Toro. Later, he pledged not to tweet for the next 24 hours—a  ...

This week, Mia opened its highly anticipated show “Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters,” about the innovative Hollywood director, his creative process, and the things that inspire him. But what if you’ve never heard of him? What if you stopped thinking about monsters in third grade? What if you could never imagine watching a  ...

This week, Mia opened its highly anticipated show “Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters,” about the innovative Hollywood director, his creative process, and the things that inspire him. But what if you’ve never heard of him? What if you stopped thinking about monsters in third grade? What if you could never imagine watching a  ...

For a visual guy, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has a way with words. During opening weekend for “Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters,” the exhibition at Mia exploring GDT and the origins of creativity, he sat for a Q&A with Mia director Kaywin Feldman and curator Gabe Ritter. He was thoughtful, profane, and hilarious,  ...

For a visual guy, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has a way with words. During opening weekend for “Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters,” the exhibition at Mia exploring GDT and the origins of creativity, he sat for a Q&A with Mia director Kaywin Feldman and curator Gabe Ritter. He was thoughtful, profane, and hilarious,  ...

Whether you’re Buffy or Billy or Paris von Gütersloh (the chap depicted here by Egon Schiele), you’ve probably grown into your name—literally, according to new research. Shown pictures of faces along with a selection of five possible names, people chose the right name 35 percent of the time, a remarkable feat given that random chance would elicit the  ...

I always read the New Yorker on the elliptical torture machine at the gym, mostly to avoid the repugnant boredom of exercise. But I also find that the effect of the endorphins, combined with the great writing in the New Yorker, fires up ideas. I have lots of bad ideas (I can tell they are bad because  ...

I always read the New Yorker on the elliptical torture machine at the gym, mostly to avoid the repugnant boredom of exercise. But I also find that the effect of the endorphins, combined with the great writing in the New Yorker, fires up ideas. I have lots of bad ideas (I can tell they are bad because  ...

George Washington, whose birthday is today, didn’t go in for wigs. But he did powder his hair white. Most men did in his day, including the other major figures of the American Revolution. Yet this innocuous fact of fashion, according to recent research, may be coloring our perception more than 200 years later, when white hair implies extreme old  ...