Art and Museums

A 23-year-old Jewish artist who fled to the south of France spending two years feverishly painting the history of her life, a sort of autobiographical operetta on paper. One year after she completed it the pregnant 26-year-old was transported to Auschwitz and killed more »

Through constellations of art and related artifacts, the exhibition follows the conventional activities in the cycle of a Parisian day, such as dressing, writing, collecting, eating, and evening entertainment — allowing visitors to envision the activities and accessories of quotidian life, in order to find resonances with their own daily lives more »

References to Marie-Thérèse, a full-figured, blonde beauty with a prominent "Greek" nose, were often camouflaged, or appeared in code, in Picasso’s art, and her identity was a closely hidden secret, as was the birth of their daughter Maya in 1935. more »

The Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry review at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum gave us a chance for a virtual stroll to the online shop. Because the Museum itself is a paean to the art of design, it's not surprising that the shop has some less-frequently-seen items more »