Art and Museums

Zuirch's Museum Rietberg presents a culturally comparative exhibition on mysticism, illustrated by the example of forty male and female mystics: their lives and writings demonstrate how richly varied spiritual experience can be more »

In Jane Fonda; The Private Life of a Public Woman, Bosworth explores the ambivalences of Jane Fonda as artist, romantic, businesswoman, femme fatale, and partly finished intellectual. Red Grooms' Marlborough Gallery show, New York: 1976-2011, is a madcap collection of paintings, sculptures and walk-through "sculpto-pictoramas" depicting the high-life, low-life and in-between-life of the metropolis more »

In collaboration with British heiress Angela Boudrett-Coudetts, Dickens founded Urania Cottage, a shelter for "fallen women" — that is, prostitutes and low-level criminals. Letters to Boudrett-Coudetts reveal a compassionate, hands-on manager intent on offering a safe haven to, and rehabilitating, the residents of the "Asylum," beginning with the clothes on their backs  more »

"The Maloof residence and workshop were filled with the finest examples of Sam’s own furniture and offered a warm and welcoming environment where creative colleagues met to share a meal, exchange ideas, and provide mutual support and encouragement." more »