By Drew Grant 9/13/12 3:16pm

Art Openings

Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper at 1stDibs gallery (Patrick McMullan)

Gloria Vanderbilt Paints the Town, Exhibits 60 Years of Artworks at 1stDibs

While Fashion Week was winding down at Lincoln Center Wednesday night, Diane von Furstenberg was sequestered on the 10th floor of a nondescript Lexington Avenue building. Across the giant storeroom of the mostly digital antique dealer 1stDibs, Patrick McMullan was snapping Bill Cunningham as he took a picture of a small watercolor on the wall. Nearby, Anderson Cooper hovered around his mother, who, in a stunning red kimono, greeted guests to her first solo art show since 2001. Read More

By Laren Stover 12/03/01 12:00am

Discovering The Bombshell Within

I have written the definitive guide to being a bombshell. I have deconstructed their entrances, exits, tantrums, fashions, body language. I have studied their hobbies, reading material, perfumes. I have watched How to Marry a Millionaire at least seven times, Promises! Promises! at least three. If I missed any details-if I didn’t recall the brand Read More

By Alexandra Jacobs 11/12/01 12:00am

The Eight Day Week

Wednesday 7th

The skinny on Gwynnie? Welcome to Shallow Hal , a movie that purports to be a parable about how fat people should be accepted by our culture -but which ends up offending on two levels: first, by actually making sport of fat people; and second, by asserting that the true ideal of “inner Read More

By Alexandra Jacobs 5/21/01 12:00am

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 16th

It’s not enough that those silly boomers are so absorbed in their big, fleshy, collective midlife crisis (see every Time cover and John Updike, Philip Roth and Minot sisters novel of the past decade), now their kids are kvetching as well? Take this book Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Read More

By Philip Weiss 4/03/00 12:00am

Joyce Carol Loves Norma Jean: A Brilliant, Messy Embrace

Blonde , by Joyce Carol Oates. Harper Collins, 738 pages, $27.50.

Joyce Carol Oates brims with testosterone, and her new book is aggressive and daring. She wants us to re-see a mythic character not through the camera’s eyes but through human eyes. She means to show us how a squalid male culture industry distorted our Read More