Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein's Oakland

Matt Werner | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Oakland in Popular Memory, The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein Oakland, Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography, Oakland California, Oakland, San Francisco News

Like Gertrude Stein returning to Oakland to find it completely changed, would an artist interviewed in this book experience a similar feeling returning to Oakland 40 years from now?

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Suppressing Ugly Truth for Beautiful Art

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 05.01.2012

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The Metropolitan Museum in New York, in its current exhibit on the collection of Gertrude Stein and her family, has made a decision to suppress the ugly truth about her collaboration with Nazism during the German occupation of France.

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Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Margaret Fuhrer | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Virgil Thomson, Four Saints in Three Acts, Isaac Mizrahi, Mark Morris, Mark Morris Dance Group, Gertrude Stein, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Dance, A Choral Fantasy, Arts News

Let's begin by acknowledging that Mark Morris is a genius. His best dances -- Gloria, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato -- tug at us powerfully. ...

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Cindy Sherman Retrospective To Hella Bitter Party: What To Do In New York This Weekend

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: New York Weekend, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Around Town, Gertrude Stein, Moma, New York Events, New York News

The Steins Collection Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue; (212) 535-7710 When: Till June 3 Price: $25 suggested donation The Metro...

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Barney Rosset, Richard Seaver, and William Burroughs in Midcentury Paris

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.02.2012

Barney Rosset died last week at age 89, and for those who valued his contribution to upholding First Amendment rights in this country, his championing the works of artists, the event truly marks the end of an era.

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The Steins' Avant-Garde Collection Shows At The Met

Posted 02.29.2012

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Anyone who has seen "Midnight In Paris" knows that the Stein house was the place to be if you were an aspiring artist, writer, musician or socialite. ...

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Triple Canopy Hosts An Epic Reading of Gertrude Stein

T.J. Carlin | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Long Readings, American Families, Light Industry, Gertrude Stein, Triple Canopy, Sam Frank, Making of Americans, Public School, Arts News

Recently Triple Canopy, Light Industry and the Public School re-opened their doors in North Brooklyn at 155 Freeman, ending a hiatus in the programs o...

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Easy Reader: Ernest Hemingway Writes Good Letters Home and Elsewhere, 1907-22

David Finkle | Posted 03.06.2012

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A large segment of the letters -- the first written when he was not quite 8 -- are juvenilia and could be the sentiments of any young whippersnapper. Yet there are occasional hints at what would become the acclaimed Hemingway mode of between-hard-covers expression.

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They're Big, They're Heavy and, Boy, They're Gorgeous!

Edward Goldman | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Gertrude Stein, Gaugin, Lari Pittman, Mark Bradford, Art, Joan Mitchell, Books, Arts News

Ladies and gentlemen, let me make holiday shopping easier for you and suggest that, instead of the torture of shopping in the crowded malls, you might want to escape into an old-fashioned heaven of a book store.

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The Shame of the Galleries: Stained Stein, Purloined Picasso

Michael Berkowitz | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Gertrude Stein, Art, Picasso, Politics, Arts News

Three major shows at San Francisco-area art museums made the pioneers of modern art hard to avoid, but instead of a learning experience, the shows were a lost opportunity to look at the origins and meaning of art.

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How the Art Climate Is Shifting

Glen Helfand | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Alice B. Toklas, Politics, Gertrude Stein, Christian Marclay, Artists, Political Climate, California College of the Arts, Arts News

Artists are becoming less rooted in hermetic zones and are moving into a new season of conscientiousness as they offer us visions that will get us thinking in new, more productive directions.

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A Weekend With Gertrude Stein In San Francisco

Andrea R. Vaucher | Posted 11.19.2011

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Los Angeles offers a wealth of easily accessible travel destinations for weekend escapes. From Palm Springs with its stark desert landscape and breath...

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What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.01.2011

Correspondence can speak volumes about the letter-writer. From idiosyncratic letterheads to sketches, stamps, cartoons and multiple-choice form letters, what do a letter's illustrations reveal?

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Art World Colonoscopy

Debra Levine | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Contemporary Jewish Museum, Lacma, Moca, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sfmoma, Seeing Gertrude Stein, The Steins Collect, Gertrude Stein, Art Meets Science, Arts News

The much-lauded Gertrude Stein show adds to the ever-growing dump of evidence that museum curators tend toward overly complex exhibition titles -- too frequently set up with the poor bedraggled colon.

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Lesbian Couple Ordered To Leave Museum For Holding Hands

Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Art, Lesbian, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Gay and Lesbian Rights, Gertrude Stein, Discrimination, San Francisco, Video, San Francisco News

A lesbian couple was enjoying an art exhibit at San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum over the weekend when they were reportedly approached by a ...

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SFMOMA's The Steins Collect Documents a Life of Art Collecting

Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Gertrude Stein, The Steins Collect, Alice Toklas, San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco Around Town, San Francisco Art, Art Exhibits, Arts News

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Boris Lurie's Perverse Pin-ups And The NO!art Movement

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 08.28.2011

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"Suitcase" 1964, Boris Lurie, Courtesy of the Boris Lurie Foundation Only if it had arrived in a suitcase could the entrance of renegade Boris Luri...

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The 100 Best Non-Fiction Books

guardian.co.uk | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Samuel Pepys, Tom Wolfe, James Boswell, Best Books, Best Non-Fiction Books, Herodotus, Gertrude Stein, Non Fiction Books, Books News

After keen debate at the Guardian's books desk, this is our list of the very best factual writing, organised by category, and then by date. ...

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HuffPost Review: Midnight in Paris

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.18.2011

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There's a strain of magical realism that runs through the filmography of Woody Allen that pops up -- and delightfully so -- in his newest film, Midnight in Paris.

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A Peek Inside Famous Writers’ Homes

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Brooklyn Heights, John Steinbeck, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Yukio Mishima, Gwendolyn Brooks, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Gertrude Stein, Truman Capote, Famous Writers' Homes, Agatha Christie, Norman Mailer, Books News

Last month, The New York Times ran a slideshow of Norman Mailer's Brooklyn Heights apartment, which will be up for sale shortly. This got us thinking ...

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Best Rejection Letter Ever!

marbury.typepad.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is a letter sent to Gertrude Stein by her exasperated editor, who had just ploughed his way through (or not) one of her rambling manuscripts (her...

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Remembering Paul Bowles

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

In our age of instant fame, it is useful to think about an artist who was famous for not being in the limelight. In Bowles' time, the cult of personality was taking hold.

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Transgender Artists Help Make Transformative Art

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hell's Kitchen's Gordon Ramsay: It's All About Taste, and His Is no Better Than Ours

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oakland, Fox TV, Gordon Ramsay, Reality TV, Fashion, Sabrina Brimhall, Hell's Kitchen, Designers, London Restaurant, Fine Dining, Comfort Food, Nutrition, Eating Out, Fast Food, West Hollywood, Rob McCue, Gail Novenario, Chefs, Michael Russnow, Gertrude Stein, Fox News, Ram Productions, Nona Sivley, Gourmet Restaurants, Celebrities, Recipes, Celebrity Chefs, Entertainment News

I take issue with Gordon Ramsay's presumption that he knows better than most about whether food has good taste. If something is truly better it should be apparent.

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Blague d'Art: American Masters, American Dreams

Peter Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gertrude Stein, Laurie Anderson, Michael McMillen, Music, Laurie Anderson Musician, Michael McMillen Artist, LA Louver Gallery, Arts News

"What are masterpieces?" asked Gertrude Stein in the very title of one of her best known books. "What is mastery?" she could have been asking. Can one...

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