Now that there are more fashion labels than ever before, and many women are keeping in better shape, why are there so few chic options for the older woman?
By Cathy Horyn
At the start of any fashion writer's career there is, waiting at the end, the dreaded article about older women and how they can never find clothes appropriate for their age. I swore on a stack of Vogues I would never write such a piece. It was totem journalism, predictable, worked at. Even the term "appropriate" has always seemed to me old hat, with violets on top.

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The star of `Amores Perros' has no interest in becoming a Hollywood star -- he's on a mission to put Mexican cinema on the map
By Charlotte Higgins
It was a brisk day in London, 2005. Gael Garcia Bernal, the doe-eyed Mexican star of Amores Perros, The Motorcycle Diaries and The Science of Sleep, was walking through Whitechapel in the East End of London with a couple of friends. It was during his run at the Almeida theater in Lorca's Blood Wedding.

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Six local artists are showing their work at the 52nd Venice Biennale
By Jules Quartly
Taiwan is not a utopia, or a dystopia. It's not a place. Diplomatically it has no space. Politically it does not exist. We can't even agree on its name.

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After years of technical glitches and poor organization, the annual art fair is attempting to break its losing streak
By Susan Kendzulak
Art Taipei 2007 opens this weekend at the former World Trade Center Hall 2 from Friday to Tuesday with 80 galleries showcasing their artists. Expect conventional fare such as painterly nudes, still life paintings, calligraphic scrolls, bronze busts and Chinese landscapes with a few surprises thrown in, such as the famous photograph of Marilyn Monroe in a white dress.

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The trend for Rufus Wainwright lately has been steady inflation: bigger themes, larger canvases, a ballooning conviction in his own voice and songs. His fifth album, Release the Stars, opens with a pregnant question — "Do I disappoint you in just being human?" — and builds to operatic dimensions, replete with religious and apocalyptic language.

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