Rendering:El Museo del Barrio courtyard.Courtesy El Museo & Gruzen Samton. The Empire State building will shine "mango yellow" this...
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This Monday, October 12 (Columbus Day), the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open to the public. It is part of the Met’s Holiday Mondays...
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Charles Seliger: June 3, 1926 - Oct. 1, 2009 On Wednesday evening, Abstract Expressionist painter Charles Seliger was standing next to me at the...
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Let us now observe Banned Books Week. As usual, the ironies abound. Recently, when the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery tried to mail out postcards for the...
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If ever paintings at an exhibition looked like jewels in a jewel box, the Kandinskys at the new Guggenheim show are the ones. Circling up the...
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A gorgeous retrospective of the career of visionary Russian painter Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) opens at the Guggenheim Museum today. Close to 100 of...
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New York City has some of the best museums in the world. And in this recession, if you’re not careful, you can blow your daily budget just...
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It all goes back to the Russians. I’m not talking about the Arms Race or the Cold War but American stage design. “Creating the Modern...
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The sculptures of Ulysses Davis are as smooth and shiny as much-fingered talismans. Mahogany, pecan, cypress, black walnut—each piece of carved...
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There are lots of good reasons to head for the Bowery—shopping for cheap kitchen supplies and visiting the Bowery Poetry Club are two of them....
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