Tag: New York

  • London Fashion Week: Sympathy for the Devil

    London Fashion Week coincided very closely with the launch of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’, starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt, and was surrounded in a mist of infamy concerning size zero models – questioning whether Nancy Regan was…

  • Unmasking the Heroes of American Comic Art

    Masters of American Comics The Newark Museum, New York a 15 September 2006-28 January 2007

  • A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears

    Jules Feiffer: If You Really Loved Me, You’d Find Me: The Strips 1960-2000 Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York 15 June-11 August 2006

  • West Meets East in a DADAdventure

    DADA…born East–Romania Romanian Cultural Institute, New York 9 September-31 October 2006

  • The Draper Touch

    The High Style of Dorothy Draper Museum of the City of New York 2 May-9 October 2006

  • On Photography: A Tribute to Susan Sontag

    Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 6 June-4 September 2006 Susan Sontag’s passionate engagement with photography is the subject of a small but intriguing bit of curatorial ingenuity; a show that offers a handful of Sontag’s potent statements on the…

  • Shaping the American Landscape: Church, Homer and Moran

    During the second half of the 19th century, three artists played pivotal roles in shaping how Americans viewed and continue to view their country, its promise and potential as expressed in such natural wonders as Niagara Falls and the Grand…

  • Jon Schueler: A Painter of Our Time

    ACA Galleries, New York 21 January-18 February 2006 Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh 26 January-11 March 2006 The American Expressionist painter Jon Schueler (1916-92) was recently the subject of growing interest on both sides of the Atlantic. When he died in New…

  • Fashion in Colors

    Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York 9 December 2005-26 March 2006 Costume is usually viewed through a frame of fashion: a piece of clothing is set against its context in chronology, trend and social ambience under normal circumstances of speculation.…

  • William Nicholson: Paintings

    Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York 16 February-25 March 2006