ROME — Monica Vitti, the adaptable movie star of Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura” and other Italian alienation films of the 1960s, and afterwards a primary comedian actress, has died. She was 90. Her dying was introduced Wednesday on Twitter by a former lifestyle minister, Walter Veltroni, who reported he had been […]

This past Wednesday, November 17, a regal portrait by the celebrated artist Amy Sherald sold for $3.9 million, double its $1.2 million-to-$1.8 million estimate, in the 20th-century and contemporary evening sale at Phillips New York. Welfare Queen (2012), listed in the catalogue as hailing from “a private East Coast collector,” was […]