Art and photography Archives
A Village Lost and Found: Scenes in Our Village, Brian May and Elena Vidal - Buddy you’re a young man hard man Shoutin’ in the street gonna take on the world some day You got blood on yo’ face You big disgra
Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive, Joel Meyerowitz - A few days after 9/11, Joel Meyerowitz --- famed for landscapes of extreme beauty and serenity --- went to the site of the World Trade Center.
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, Andrew Bolton - 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 wru
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.
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 Gwathmey: 'Vision is the art of seeing things invisible' - A funeral and a memorial service just hours apart --- that’s an unusual day.
Deborah Butterfield -   Deborah Butterfield By Robert Gordon Here's how much I don't come from the equestrian set: My Russian immigrant gran
Design Book Roundup - We live in a 1929 Georgian building on the Upper East Side of New York.
Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots, Peter York - Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots Peter York At last.
Henri Cartier-Bresson - Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century is a massive show of such range and vision that my wife was in tears at its end and the kid came home and to
Katsura - The book you really want is Katsura: A Princely Retreat. It’s out of print, but you can find a copy at Amazon.com for $450.
Looking for the Summer, Jim Brandenburg -       Looking for the Summer Jim Brandenburg The last time I was in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, a great wind blew and
M. C. Escher Pop-Ups - A Dollar and a Dream: Three guys in the money biz bought a $1 Powerball ticket --- and won $254 million. They live in Greenwich, Connecticut.
M.C. Escher - I was a teenager when some kid with a bad attitude toward school and a great attitude about art showed me a book of Escher graphics.
Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford - Guest Butler Jane Chafin is director of the Offramp Gallery in Pasadena, California.
Marc Lagrange/Helmut Newton - 1987. Tina Brown was trying to lure me to join her at Vanity Fair.
Mark Hampton: An American Decorator, Duane Hampton - Talk about being born for the job!
Mountain: Portraits of High Places, Sandy Hill - I’ve known Sandy Hill for almost three decades, and every time I’ve heard she’s gone off to climb some mountain or other, I’ve
Paige Peterson's Interior Landscapes - Fifteen years ago, after a long and harrowing brain surgery, Paige Peterson had a revelation.
Private Splendor: Great Families at Home, Alexis Gregory - On the occasion of my first dinner with the woman who would become my first wife, a man answered the door. He wore a crisply tailored dark suit.