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Art History Lessons for Kids
Claire d’Harcourt’s oversize bright orange children’s book, Art Up Close: From Ancient to Modern, is a wonderful and interactive way to teach children how to look at art and engage them in the history of art. Disguised as a Where’s Waldo type game, the book travels through history with 23 full-color reproductions of the world’s […]
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Tags: art history, Art Up Close, children's art books, Clair d'Harcourt
by Emily Waldorf The characters in Jane Austen’s brilliant novels inhabit your imagination indefinitely once you have had the pleasure of reading about their hopes and desires. Who hasn’t encountered an overly passionate Marianne Dashwood or dashing but unreliable John Willoughby? Austen’s genius talent for social satire, despite being firmly planted in the world of […]
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Tags: "A Woman's Wit", Claire Tomalin, Jane Austen, Jane Austen: A Life, Morgan Library, New York, Pride & Prejudice, Reflections on Austen, Sense & Sensibility, The Divine Jane
Pakistani Art at Asia Society (NY Times) Painting the Ancient, Invisible Dream: Aboriginal Art (NY Times) All the Books You’ll Never Catch on a Kindle (NY Times) Hollywood Justice: The Roman Polanski Drama (WSJ) The Artist and the Director: Takashi Murakami and Kirsten Dunst (WSJ) Fleshy Nudes Abound in Paris Show of Late Renoir Works: […]
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Tags: Aboriginal Art, Amazon kindle, Asia Society, Blum & Poe, Hollywood, Kindle, Kirsten Dunst, Pakistani Art, Paris, Renoir, Roman Polanski, show, Takashi Murakami, William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts
[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.783125&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] T. C Boyle sat down with the editor of the The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus, to discuss “The Women,” his new novel about Frank Lloyd Wright, told from the point of view of the women who loved him. Mr. Boyle has authored more than twenty works of fiction and lives […]
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Tags: architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright house, love life, Montecito, New York Times book review, Sam Tanenhaus, T. C. Boyle, The Women, women
At Louvre Many Stop to Snap but Few Stay to Focus (NY Times) For Annie Leibovitz, a Funny Financial Picture (NY Times) Auction Houses and Their Taboos (NY Times) Summer Reading: Secrets of the Art Experts (WSJ) Whose Art Is It Anyway? (WSJ) D’Orsay Comes to De Young (ARTINFO) Robert Fontenot on Recycling LACMA (ARTINFO) […]
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Tags: Ai Wei Wei, Annie Leibovitz, art experts, auction houses, d'Orsay, de Young, Goering, London, Louvre, Mori Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, nazi looted art, Paris, San Francisco, taboos, Titian, Wikipedia
Summer School: Chinese Art Books
By Emily Waldorf If you are an art history student or simply an aficionado of Chinese art, there is no time like the present to brush up on the basics, particularly in the area of Chinese painting, where memorizing the rich history, artist names, and iconic scroll paintings is crucial for a more critical understanding. […]
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Tags: Art and China's Revolution, Asia Society, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese paintings, David Sensabaugh, how to read Chinese paintings, Maxwell K. Hearn, Melissa Chiu, The Last Emperor's Collection, Willow Chang, Yang Renkai, Zheng Shengtian
Book Review: The Modern Baker
Baking Enthusiasts by Gena Bell No matter what the season baking is always popular. And for those of you looking for a new source to heighten your skills, The Modern Baker by Nick Malgieri is one to buy. Nominated for an IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) award this year, The Modern Baker offers recipes […]
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Tags: baking, Book Review, cocoa nib brownies, IACP, International Association of Culinary Professionals, Nick Malgieri, olive oil cake, pound cake, puff pastry, sweet tarts and pies, The Modern Baker
More Artworks Sell in Private Slowdown (NY Times) Baby Boomers at the MET (NY Times) The Pop of Warhol (Jazz and Rock, Too) (NY Times) Hedge-fund Divorcee Dives into Art, Sex, Brooklyn: Book Review (Bloomberg) Kandinsky’s Abstract Squiggles, Amoeba Delight in Paris Show (Review) (Bloomberg) Krystian Zimmerman’s Shocking Disney Hall Debut (LA Times) Review: Kendall […]
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Tags: Baby Boomers, Disney Hall, Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund, Jill Kargman, Kandinsky, Kendall Carter, Krystian Zimmerman, MET, Paris, private art sales, Sandroni Rey, Warhol
Art Book or Cookbook? Food Porn for the Tomato Lover By Suzanne Lenzer Some people collect art. Some collect books. I collect what I’ll call “food-as-art” books: a totally made-up category of collectibles that range from the most glorious coffee table tomes to the more humble, work-a-day cookbook. Basically everything in my ever-expanding collection is […]
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Tags: Amy Goldman, food as art, food porn, heirloom tomatoes, The Heirloom Tomato
By Emily Waldorf High-profile Los Angeles decorator Michael Smith has been chosen by the Obamas to renovate their personal living quarters at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers introduced the Obamas to Mr. Smith whose celebrity clients include Rupert Murdoch, Cindy Crawford, and Steven Spielberg, among many others. It has been slyly […]
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Tags: Cindy Crawford, decorator to the stars, Desiree Rogers, Michael S. Smith, Obamas, Rupert Murdoch, Steven Spielberg, White House, White House decorator