A rock. A road. A tree. How set designers for 20th century’s most famous play change it up.
Washington Post6 days agoAs Gertrude Stein might have said, Godot is Godot is Godot. But it ain’t necessarily so. The minimalist masterpiece has taken on strikingly varied looks since challenging Paris ...
David Rockefeller's multi-million-dollar art collection heads to auction
CNN.com3 days agoGlenn Lowry is the director of New York's Museum of Modern Art. In May, more than 1,000 works of art and fine objects collected by banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller, and his wife, ...
Because pregnancy is a time for clichés, I thought I might want the oft-joked-about combo “pickles and ice cream” when I was expecting a baby. Throughout the first trimester, and half of the ...
INT_ART + WORK Exhibit Showcases Work by SOA Staff and Faculty
Columbia University News4 days agoOne of my relatives, Glenway Wescott was a writer in Gertrude Stein's circle in the "Lost Generation" in Paris, so I've always had an affinity for that specific circle of writers ...
Prufrock: Kay Boyle in Paris, Pulitzer Prize Winners, and the Suicidal West
The Weekly Standard2 days agoWell, the Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced, and I am not surprised to see that Jerry Saltz, art critic for New York Magazine, has won for criticism. Ronan Farrow certainly deserves ...
New FAS Policy Restricts Professors’ Ability to Hold Public Service Positions | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson7 days agoDean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith approved policy changes last year restricting professors’ ability to hold certain public service positions while also remaining active ...
Can a Man Still Paint a Female Nude?
The Cut1 day agoMale artists wonder whether they can work with the female form, while the world questions what their intentions were in the first place. The western art canon is in no small part a parade of ...
Cézanne’s Portraits: Forceful Faces
The Weekly Standard7 days agoPaul Cézanne (1839-1906) is best known for his luminous landscapes of the valleys and majestic mountains of his native Provence and for his elaborate still lifes of apples, pears, and pottery ...
Marcella P. (Ott) Carsten
Norwalk Reflector7 days agoMarcella, who enjoyed bird watching and puzzles, was 86.
MOT's 2018-19 season includes 'Eugene Onegin,' 'Candide' and 'Grapes of Wrath'
Detroit Free Press6 days agoIt may be all about opera, but the heart of the 2018-19 Michigan Opera Theatre season is literature. “As the season came together, we realized it could also attract younger people who may not ...