Jordan Riefe

3 weeks ago | truthdig.com | Jordan Riefe

“Rendez-vous Avec Pol Pot” releases June 5. In 1978, Washington Post reporter Elizabeth Becker was one of the few Western journalists invited by the Khmer Rouge to witness firsthand the workings of “democratic Kampuchea.” In December of that year, tensions were at their highest as war loomed with neighboring Vietnam. Paranoia was rife following three years of purges and the loss of roughly 2 million lives at the hands of bloodthirsty dictator Pol Pot.

1 month ago | maxim.com | Jordan Riefe

The aquatic service offers pontoon boats, yachts, party boats, sailboats and luxury charters for your next seaside excursion. With summer upon us, it’s time to head to the beach again. Which beach? Any beach if you have your own yacht. It doesn’t have to be a yacht, a fishing charter might do, or just a tub to tool around the bay.

1 month ago | observer.com | Jordan Riefe

Paul McCartney’s “Rearview Mirror” exhibition at Gagosian in Beverly Hills offers a rare, personal look at the earliest days of Beatlemania. Artwork © Paul McCartney, Photo: Jeff McLane, Courtesy GagosianLate last month, Paul McCartney stopped by Gagosian in Beverly Hills to check out the install of his new show, “Rearview Mirror,” which showcases thirty-seven photoworks taken by the music legend at the onset of Beatlemania in late 1963 and early 1964.

1 month ago | observer.com | Jordan Riefe

An installation view of the exhibition “Willem de Kooning: Endless Painting” at Gagosian. Photograph by Maris Hutchinson. Artwork © 2025 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/ Artists Rights society (ARS, New YorkAlongside Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning has long been considered one of the twin pillars of abstract expressionism. But his most cited works, his Woman series of six canvases, are figurative, not abstract, though they’re plenty expressionist.

1 month ago | observer.com | Jordan Riefe

At the Nimoy Theater, the composer’s story returns to the place where it originally unfolded. Photo: Liza VollAustrian auto-didact, music theorist, pedagogue, writer and emancipator of dissonance, composer Arnold Schoenberg was a lot of things, but cuddly wasn’t one of them. “Uncompromising and pretty curmudgeonly, Schoenberg had a genius for getting people to hate him.