Sometimes it pays to stick close to home. The more Peter Capaldi heard as his wife, the producer Elaine Collins, and the writer Paul Rutman hashed out the story line for the new Apple TV+ thriller “Criminal Record,” the more he hinted that he was their man. They cast him
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Up Late With Vermeer, as a Blockbuster Draws to an End
To become one of the last lucky last visitors to the landmark “Vermeer” exhibition, Kristian Markus of Hamburg, Germany, drove five hours on Saturday to make it to the Rijksmuseum by midnight. Markus, who works in marketing, first made a stop in Münster to pick up his mother — the
Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer
This spring, at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, I stood again in front of “The Milkmaid,” returning 33 years after that day in Lagos to her humility, her solidity and the ongoingness of her domestic work. I love it — I love her — no less than I ever did. It
A Vermeer Restoration Reveals a God of Desire
DRESDEN, Germany — After nearly three centuries behind a layer of paint, a naked Cupid has surfaced in one of the world’s best-loved artworks, drastically altering the background of a quiet interior scene. The plump, golden-locked god in Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window,” was revealed