By Andrew Russeth 9/08/11 6:10pm

Art

Writer Calvin Tomkins. (Photo: The New Yorker)

Whitney to Toast Writer Calvin Tomkins

The Whitney Museum has announced that it will fête New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins at its annual gala, which will be held on Oct. 5 on Pier 57 along the Hudson River, west of Chelsea.

Over the course of about a half century on the job, Mr. Tomkins has interviewed seemingly every major art world figure of his time, from Marcel Duchamp to Maurizio Cattelan. Below, The Observer presents below our five favorite profiles by the indefatigable writer. (A New Yorker subscription is required to read some of these pieces.) Read More

By Daniel Mendelsohn 5/03/99 12:00am

The Gory That Was Greece

It’s not surprising that much of the attention focused on the newly refurbished Greek and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been lavished on the building rather than the art-on New Yorkers, that is, rather than the Greeks. Michael Kimmelman declared in The New York Times that the renovated wing is “the Read More