Reading about Swinton's collaboration with MoMA, I couldn't help but reminisce about a certain afternoon back in 1996 that I spent in the company of Quentin Crisp where sleep would also prove to be transformative -- for me.

The Met was our first destination as the Gertrude Stein family collection was the highlight of the year, or perhaps of the decade.

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.

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. ...

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. ...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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...