Art and Photography Archive |
A Village Lost and Found: Scenes in Our Village - A geezer with curly white hair shredded a red guitar he built himself to jump-start the Academy Awards. If you saw him backstop a weak replacement for Freddy Mercury in
Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive - A few days before 9/11, Joel Meyerowitz --- famed for landscapes of extreme beauty and serenity --- took photographs of the World Trade Center. He planned to take more. Then
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty - The Alexander McQueen exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has ended, which is just fine with me --- I saw it four times, and each time it wrung me
Andy Warhol - Andy Warhol died on February 22, 1987 --- a Sunday morning, the best time for a media death. By Sunday night, I'd skimmed four books about Warhol and called the
Anthony Quinn’s Eye - If you are of a certain age you remember Anthony Quinn as a protean force, not just as an actor but as a collector and artist. (In much the same way, Yul
At Home in the Garden - I met Carolyne Roehm for media reasons --- at the height of Wall Street prosperity in the mid ‘80s, I wrote a piece about her and Henry Kravis, her then
Atlas of Remote Islands (Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will) - No worries that "Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will" will be showing up on gift lists. Though published by Penguin, the
Carlo Scarpa - The Italian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) isn't widely known. With good reason. Name a celebrated contemporary architect and you immediately think of his/her signature style. Scarpa’s work is harder to
Carolyne Roehm: Design & Style: A Constant Thread - Carolyne Roehm is 67 years old. This is not possible. She looks exactly as she did when I met her in 1986. Her face seems unlifted and unlined, her weight is a
Cat & Dog Page-A-Day Gallery Calendars - SHOPPING ON AMAZON: The business model of this site is Amazon. You start here, buy something there, Butler gets a commission. And not just on the item reviewed. Anything you
Charles Gwathmey (1938-2009) - A man I love died the other day, and like a lot of people who knew Charles Gwathmey, I’m having trouble using the past tense about him. Charles was 71
Charles Gwathmey: ‘Vision is the art of seeing things invisible’ - A funeral and a memorial service just hours apart --- that’s an unusual day. But most of his friends were out of town when Dominick Dunne died at 83, so
Decorating in Detail - Mark Hampton knew everything. He’d read it. He’d seen it. He’d heard it. And because he had some kind of trick memory, everything he knew was instantly available to him.
Design Book Roundup - We live in a 1929 Georgian building on the Upper East Side of New York. It’s small, red brick, quiet to the point of subliminal --- you can walk
Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World’s Most Colorful Despots -
Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible - How important is Dieter Rams? The New York Times asked some great designers for their assessment. For their responses, click here. ----------- Apple is the #1 brand in the world. Bigger than Coke,
Dylan by Schatzberg - Jerry Schatzberg has been there, done all of that, but it seems the one photograph that will render him immortal is the blurry portrait of Bob Dylan he took for
Everyday Sketching and Drawing: Five Steps to a Unique and Personal Sketchbook Habit - Henri Matisse began his day by drawing circles with a pencil. He wasn’t aiming at perfection, or even accuracy. He was warming up, getting his hand loose. Sketching is like that.
Fashion Lives: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis - “Fashion Lives” is big as a MacBook and heavy as a small barbell, but if you like to read about fashion, you’ll find it as light as an airport page-turner.
