Director Gero von Boehm discusses The Bad and the Beautiful, his new film about the “King of Kink.”
Helmut Newton
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HSBC Leak Reveals Art World’s Forays into Sketchy Swiss Banking
The recent HSBC leak, which has revealed that between 2006 and 2007 the bank’s Swiss branch helped clients conceal some $102 billion from tax authorities, lists a number of prominent art and culture figures among the 30,000 people whose account information was released.
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Vice and Virtue: Helmut Newton’s World Without Men
BERLIN — A week ago, Vice magazine gambled on a potentially-sexist-but-potentially-thought-provoking fashion spread — and lost. “Last Words” featured fictionalized portraits of female authors looking unaccountably sexy moments before or after their suicides: a slender Sylvia Plath poised before an open oven, an immaculately made-up Virginia Wolf wading in a picturesque river. Predictably enough, the spread provoked vitriolic backlash in the world of feminist journalism.
