Those works exemplified what Elie calls a “crypto-religious” trend in Western culture at the time — artists such as Leonard Cohen, Toni Morrison and Bob Dylan were concertedly focused on ...

as artists from Warhol to Basquiat to Haring and musicians from U2 to Madonna to Leonard Cohen began to produce a flood of what Elie terms “crypto-religious” art. Get Starting Point A guide ...

Personal effects belonging to the late Canadian musician and poet Leonard Cohen, who died in November 2016, went up for sale on Friday in what the auction house advertised as the "largest group ...

May), essayist Paul Elie looks at everything from Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ” to Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and Prince’s ...

In 2022, Cohen’s children successfully sued to remove Robert Kory, the late singer’s manager, as trustee of Cohen’s estate. They alleged he seized control of the trust to “pilfer” Cohen ...

In 1964, Leonard Cohen wrote a letter to a friend explaining that he’d sold what he called his manuscript “junk” to the University of Toronto, who shelled out $3,850 for the collection.

In death, Leonard Cohen is having a rebirth. The legendary singer is being remembered by older and younger generations alike for his timeless music. Special correspondent Mike Cerre went to the ...

In death, Leonard Cohen is having a rebirth. The legendary singer is being remembered by older and younger generations alike for his timeless music. Special correspondent Mike Cerre went to the ...

More striking, though, was the depth of feeling. Leonard Cohen, master of a cool, ironic, deadpan remove, had come to signify something new that mystified the performers themselves. “I saw ...

The legendary Jewish writer and singer Leonard Cohen read his poetry at 92NY ... Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel made his first appearance at 92NY to read from his 1966 ...

By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief In the first few minutes of his first Zoom casting call with actor Alex Wolff, Oystein Karlsen knew he had found his Leonard Cohen. “He came on the screen ...