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.
Margaret Fuhrer | Posted 03.05.2012
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. ...
Posted 03.02.2012
The Steins Collection Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue; (212) 535-7710 When: Till June 3 Price: $25 suggested donation The Metro...
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.
Posted 02.29.2012
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. ...
T.J. Carlin | Posted 04.04.2012
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...
David Finkle | Posted 03.06.2012
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.
Edward Goldman | Posted 02.12.2012
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.
Michael Berkowitz | Posted 12.06.2011
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.
Glen Helfand | Posted 11.20.2011
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.
Andrea R. Vaucher | Posted 11.19.2011
Los Angeles offers a wealth of easily accessible travel destinations for weekend escapes. From Palm Springs with its stark desert landscape and breath...
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?
Debra Levine | Posted 10.12.2011
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.
Posted 09.18.2011
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 ...
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue | Posted 09.05.2011
Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 08.28.2011
"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...
guardian.co.uk | Posted 08.15.2011
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. ...
Marshall Fine | Posted 07.18.2011
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.
flavorwire.com | Posted 07.05.2011
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 ...
marbury.typepad.com | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
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.
George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011
Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Peter Frank | Posted 05.25.2011
"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...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Inspired by Salinger's toilet -- which was listed for sale on EBay for $1 million -- Jacket Copy decided to see what other literary-ish items are cur...
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 05.01.2012