The Art Basel Miami Miasma

Art Basel Miami Beach—the self-proclaimed “most important art show in the United States”—started off not with a bang, but a thrash: Iggy and the Stooges played a free concert called Art Loves Music. There’s a certain pleasure to be had in imagining a mosh pit of well-heeled collectors subjecting themselves to Iggy’s shirtless ministrations. What Read More

The Editor Who Loved To Paint

Byron Dobell, one of the most respected and accomplished editors in New York magazine publishing history, is also a painter, and his seventh solo show, “Recent Works,” is currently on view at Chelsea’s First Street Gallery (526 West 26th Street). Mr. Dobell, who’s 80 (but doesn’t look a day over 65!), worked as an editor Read More