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The Arts Seen in NYC (‘Summer with the Averys’ Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last weekend to check out this that and the other thing and, say, it was swell. After the usual funhouse ride through Six Flags Over Midtown Manhattan, we headed … Continue reading
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Tagged Almeida Theatre, Bertie Carvel, Bruce Museum, Bryant Park, Camp: Notes on Fashion, Donald Margulies, Dora Maar, Edmund de Waal, Elective Affinities: Edmund de Waal at The Frick Collection, Elie Nadelman, Fox Broadcast Network, Fox News Channel, Gagosian Gallery, Ink, James McNeill Whistler, John Richardson, Jonny Lee Miller, Larry Lamb, Lincoln Kirstein's Modern, Long Lost, Man in the Open Air, Manhattan Theatre Club, March Avery, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Milton Avery, Minimalism/Maximalism, Pablo Picasso, Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee, Philip Johnson, Picasso's Women: Fernande to Jacqueline, Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Rupert Murdoch, Sally Michel, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Sharks! Myths and Realities, starchitect, Summer with the Averys [Milton | Sally | March], Susan Sontag, The Art Newspaper, The Frick Collection, The Met Breuer, The Mirror, The Museum at FIT, The Red Flame Diner, The Sun, Whistler as Printmaker: Highlights from the Gertrude Kosovsky Collection, Yoga Night
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The Nude York Times (Lucian Freud ‘Monumental’ Edition)
From our Grey Lady pearl-clutching desk As the hardblushing staff has dutifully noted for the past handful of years, the New York Times is increasingly willing to bare all in the name of art – or commerce – in its … Continue reading
The Arts Seen in NYC (#StraightWhiteMen Preview Edition)
Well the Missus trundled me down to the Big Town for my birthday last weekend and, say, it was swell. (It also marked the start of a year’s worth of my saying, à la Raymond Chandler, that I’m pushing 70 … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Anna D. Shapiro, Annette Arm, Armie Hammer, Bill Cunningham, Chaim Soutine, Château de Versailles, Clara Driscoll, Color, Conflict, Constantin Brancusi Sculpture, Cooper Hewitt, David Copperfield, Diego Rivera, Fashion Institute of Technology, Fashion Unraveled, FIT, Flesh, Fondation Giacometti, Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, Harry Houdini, Heavenly Bodies:Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, James Gardner, Josh Charles, Like Life: Sculpture Color and the Body (1300-Now), Louis Comfort Tiffany, Louis XIV, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miles Malleson, Mint Theater Company, MOMA, Morgan Library, Museum of the City of New York, New-York Historical Society, Paul Schneider, Public Parks Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, pushing 70 hard enough to break a wrist, Raymond Chandler, Scofield Thayer Collection, Second Stage Theater, Stephen Payne, Straight White Men, Summer of Magic: Treasures from the David Copperfield Collection, Terry Teachout, The Jewish Museum, The Magic of Handwriting: The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection, The Met Breuer, The Met Cloisters, The Weekly Standard, Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs, Visitors to Versailles, Walk This Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes, Wall Street Journal, Wearing Memories, Young Jean Lee
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The Nude York Times (The Met Breuer ‘Like Life’ Edition)
As the hard blushing staff has noted several times, it’s no longer unusual for the Grey Lady to drop the veil and display some rather revealing images. The latest example comes from this full-page ad for The Met Breuer’s exhibit Like … Continue reading
The Arts Seen in NYC (‘Modigliani Unmasked’ Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last weekend to see what we could see and, say, it was swell. We hit the city Friday afternoon and headed right over to the Fashion Institute of Technology … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrián Villar Rojas, American Airlines Theatre, Christopher Benfey, Elizabeth McGovern, Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical, Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme, FASHION AND SATIRE: The Drawings Of Orson Byron Lowell And Charles Dana Gibson, Fashion Institute of Technology, FIT, Florine Stettheimer, Force of Nature, Jewish Museum, Met Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Modigliani Unmasked, NYRB, Olivetti Valentine typewriter, Red Flame Diner, Roundabout Theatre Company, Sara Berman's Closet, Society of Illustrators, The Bruegel of Bendel's, The Met Breuer, The Theater of Disappearance, Time and the Conways
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