Posts Tagged ‘New York’

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 […]


by Emily Waldorf Just two months after opening in New York’s Lower East Side, at 45 Orchard Street, Michali Fine Art, opened its doors last Friday, June 5th, for the opening of their inaugural summer show, The Meaning of Life, featuring work by New York based artists Hedi Ferjani and Scot Thompson.  The artists’ respective works […]


Ramps: A Late Spring Fling by Suzanne Lenzer Like many a romance, my relationship with ramps began with a strong physical attraction. They’re one of those vegetables that make me want to take them home and start cooking as soon as the first ones appear at the Union Square Greenmarket (which is later this year […]


Stanley Boxer’s No. 30 from Flitofloat series, lot 7126 in Bonhams upcoming Sunset Estate Auction in Los Angeles on February 8th.  Estimate:  $800-$1,200. By Emily Waldorf Have you ever wondered if that dusty oil painting or antique clock you inherited from your great aunt is worth something but thought it was too complicated to get […]


I had the pleasure of slowly contemplating the comprehensive survey of Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson’s work, Take Your Time, now showing simultaneously at MoMa and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Space.  I must admit I felt an eery stomach curdling anxiety walking through Room For One Colour, 1997, where everything appears monochrome through a yellowish haze. […]


I visited the Cai Guo-Qiang mini-retrospective during its final days at the Guggenheim, before it travels to Beijing for the Olympics.  Mr. Cai’s work touches on themes that are at once shockingly obvious and surprisingly subtle.  He is well known for exploring post 9/11 anxiety through the invocation of terrorist methods of violence in his […]