Clay Risen

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Clay Risen

One of his first major translation projects, in 2008, was "Feuchtgebiete" ("Wetlands"), a sexually explicit coming-of-age novel by Charlotte Roche packed with raunchy, idiomatic slang that only someone with Mr. Mohr's background could render in English. "I read the book for the eventual U.S. publisher when they were considering buying the rights," he told The Financial Times in 2012.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Clay Risen

He wrote extensively about the New York art scene in the 1960s and '70s, then shifted to become a prominent street photographer. Max Kozloff, a leading art critic who helped readers of The Nation and Artforum navigate the array of movements that followed Abstract Expressionism in the 1960s and '70s, and who later became a well-regarded photographer in his own right, died on April 6 at his home in Manhattan. He was 91. His wife, Joyce Kozloff, said the cause was Parkinson's disease.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Clay Risen

Over his 70-year career, Mr. Luss worked for clients of all sizes: corporate behemoths like Owens Corning, hospital systems like Northwell Health and wealthy families like the one that hired him to outfit a penthouse apartment near the United Nations. The apartment, completed in 1969, was rich in contrasting materials, like verde antique stone walls, thickly woven tapestries and rich oak detailing.

1 month ago | archive.is | Clay Risen

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1 month ago | nytimes.com | Clay Risen

He provided both the explosive percussion on hits like "Call Me" and the laid-back rhythm on the reggae-influenced "The Tide Is High." Clem Burke, whose energetic, versatile drumming provided the beat for the band Blondie as it churned out post-punk, disco and rock hits in the late 1970s and early '80s - and then again after the band re-formed in 1997 - died on Sunday. He was 70. In a statement, the band said the cause was cancer. It did not say where he died.