After 20 years of events in Paris and elsewhere, Dîner En Blanc is coming to New York City. One observer (see YouTube clip)muses as to whether it's a speed-dating event. Is it still possible to be on the invite list? more »

I look for value wherever I go. I buy clothes when they’re on sale. When I donate to public radio or charity, I try to do it when there’s a matching offer. So when I notice the word "value" in a book title about wine, I pay attention. more »

Kahlo's affair in New York City with her friend, the Hungarian-born photographer Nickolas Muray which ended in 1939, and her divorce from the Diego Rivera, left her heartbroken and lonely, but she produced some of her most powerful and compelling paintings and self-portraits during this time more »

How did hundreds of thousands of books, pictures, plays and magazines come to be ... censored in less than 30 years? "During the interwar years, more often than not, the objection boiled down to sex. One of the goals of the exhibition is to show that censorship is far more complicated than one might think." more »