arts. writing. culture.

No matter who you’re buying gifts for this holiday season, books are always the perfect solution! Affordable and practical, they create the opportunity to truly personalize gifts. Think about the person’s interests and you’re bound to find a book about it! Here’s a great place to start– I’ve compiled these lists with [...]

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If you’re in the New York area, you may want to check this out.  I’ll be there if I can!
I’d love to bring attention to the fact that NYC independent bookstores are finally being due acknowledged.  The first ever NYC Indie Bookstores Week is fast approaching.  Spread the word and support these stores that are [...]

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Was the “Young Archer” Created By a Young Michelangelo?
The statue of a “Young Archer” is on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to gather further expert studies on whether or not this work can be attributed to the Renaissance master Michelangelo.  Though unfinished, broken and with far less attention to detail as his later [...]

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Earlier this week, I had the honor of previewing an upcoming exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915,” with the opportunity to listen to curatorial remarks by Carrie Barratt and Barbara Weinberg and gather impressions of the work on display before it’s unveiling to the public on Monday, [...]

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Nestled along a seemingly random road on a hill in Staten Island, NY sits the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art—an amazing building designed to replicate the Himalayan style of architecture often seen in the East.  Formed in 1945, it’s also the first strictly-Tibet museum in the world before the Communist Revolution.
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“Warning: Models in this ad may not seem as real as they appear.”
I love, love, love the fact that the French Parliament is considering a “Full Photoshop Disclosure” law for advertisements.  This would require that these entities inform the viewers if any Photoshopping or airbrushing was done on a given picture.  This would be mandatory [...]

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How and why… and, seriously, how… can Annie Leibovitz, brilliant mind of our time, have encountered so much trouble in recent times?  I’ve been reading up on the photographer-elite’s recent financial and legal struggles through her whole ordeal and can’t help but be baffled.  With a powerhouse team like her and partner Susan Sontag, I [...]

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Anyone who says that graffiti isn’t artwork because it’s done on the side of a building has another thing coming.  I, like many others, have been a long-time fan of the street artist known as Banksy.  Unfortunately, part of one of the artist’s famous murals was “accidentally” painted over in black this week by Hackney [...]

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