Hyperallergic – While formally dressed reception attendants awkwardly skirted past to enter the museum’s exclusive opening event, union members handed out red, orange, and green fliers to passersby that encouraged…
Artnet – During her two-decade reign, Marie Antoinette didn’t just preside over France, she reshaped the worlds of 18th-century fashion and design in her image. From her sumptuous pastel gowns…
Art News – I came to this basic reaffirmation while reading J. Hoberman’s latest, addicting, grand cultural history, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop. …
Hyperallergic – A new exhibition at the Japan Society in NYC will center the sculptor’s animated artworks, maquettes, and inspiring sense of gratitude for the miracle of being alive. –…
NY Times – Lisa Schiff became the country’s leading art consultant, and drew her clients close. Then she stole millions from them. Now facing up to 20 years in prison,…
NY Times – The rich expatriates Sargent painted in London were dismissed as “dollar princesses.” A new exhibition looks beyond that label to their achievements and inner lives. – read…
Artnet News – A trove of 450 objects once owned by the late filmmaker David Lynch hit the block at Julien’s Auctions, where it raked in $4.25 million in a…
NY TIMES– A museum veteran and a financier are planning Canyon, an organization on the Lower East Side that will focus on video, audio and performance art when it opens…
National Review – After my dear friend Julia Alexander’s memorial service in Baltimore in late May, I visited the Walters Art Museum, which she directed for eleven years, and the Baltimore Museum of…
WSJ – The first show presented in the recently restored museum’s new exhibition galleries features three works by the 17th-century painter that, depicting women engaged in epistolary exchanges, are rich…