Kurt wins Deadline Club award

Kurt’s Vanity Fair article on the new era of Beijing architecture, “From Mao to Wow,” just won a Deadline Club Award for best Arts Reporting.  Lucky for us, he did a radio version of the piece, too.  Listen here.

Read Full Post »

Kurt on the Red Carpet

Attending the Oscar ceremony last night, I realized why the pre-show red-carpet rigmarole has become more and more a focus of the television coverage over the last decade or so: that’s the juiciest part of the quasi-official event, a reality-show The Day of the Locust without the apocalyptic ending.
First there’s the arrival by car through [...]

Read Full Post »