Her work spans over half a century of artistic styles, from the abstract to the surreal. But Meret Oppenheim was an artist who defies labels. Anne Umland, curator of the Meret Oppenheim retrospective now on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, said, “Meret Oppenheim is …
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The new biography “Eleanor” (published by Simon & Schuster, a division of ViacomCBS) by David Michaelis, biographer of artist N.C. Wyeth and Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz, offers a surprising portrait of a first lady who became one of the most revered women in the world. In this excerpt below, Eleanor …
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In “The Taste of Sugar” (Flatiron), novelist Marisel Vera (author of “If I Bring You Roses”) has written a story of a small coffee farm in late 19th century Puerto Rico, an island hard-hit by war, natural disaster and social upheaval, and how the promise of a better life draws …
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Check out these events around the country this coming week: San Francisco: Night Bloom (through January 5) In this “light and sound experience,” held evenings from 5 p.m.-11 p.m., rooms evoking the tropics dazzle and amaze as visitors explore the rainforest at night. You can also have a nightcap in …
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When Robert Battle goes to visit Dessie Williams, the cousin who raised him, she loves to brag that she always knew he was special. “You didn’t have to encourage him to do anything; he did them. He was self-motivated,” she said. Still, he had a lot to overcome: “He had …
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In December 1962 America’s #1 album wasn’t by Elvis, or Ray Charles, or Peter, Paul & Mary. It wasn’t even music. All the excitement was over a comedy album, a parody of then-President John F. Kennedy and his family, fittingly titled “The First Family.” Q: “Sir? When will we send …
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And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: June 3rd, 1968, 50 years ago today … the day pop artist Andy Warhol was confronted by a radical feminist named Valerie Solanas. Just the year before, Solanas had published the “S.C.U.M. Manifesto,” which called, among other things, for “thrill-seeking women” to …
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