Sixty-odd years ago, it wouldn’t have felt like this. In 1960, in the dingy loft on Fourth Avenue that was home to the Reuben Gallery, Robert Whitman’s “American Moon” looked right at...
Read moreIn 1971 Ms. Finke made her debut in society at the International Debutante Ball in New York. Three years later, when she was 20, The Times published the news of her engagement...
Read moreHe called it Tallix, after the second and third syllables of “metallics,” and opened it in 1970 in Cold Spring, N.Y., a Putnam County village on the eastern side of the Hudson...
Read moreThey had five children. Betty worked in the laundry, which was on the first floor of their home. The family felt isolated, she recalled, avoiding movie theaters, the local pool and contact...
Read moreSÃO PAULO, Brazil — Every night at 7 p.m., Claudia Andujar, the renowned photographer, sits down at her desk, puts on her headphones and turns on her computer.She has a standing Skype...
Read moreOn Wednesday, one day before the world learned of his death at 81, the musician David Crosby posted to Twitter over a dozen times.He picked his favorite Beatles song for a rainy...
Read more“My early inspiration for moving to France was the 1954 Billy Wilder film ‘Sabrina,’ starring Audrey Hepburn as an awkward American 20-something who transforms into an elegant creature and queen of her...
Read moreA passé take on Georg Büchner’s 1835 play about the French Revolution leans into the worst instincts of the Comédie-Française, our critic writes.
Read moreIs it said that the comic poet Ogden Nash, noting the hiring practices of a certain founder of Universal Pictures, once wrote the couplet “Uncle Carl Laemmle/has a very big faemmle.” Carl...
Read moreThis year’s Winter Show, back to its longtime home in the Park Avenue Armory after a brief pandemic dalliance with the former Barney’s building on Madison Avenue, is full of treasures, as...
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