A curious obscurity clings to Man Ray, the transatlantic dandy who died in 1976 at the age of 87. Nobody could call him overlooked, exactly. The artist is enshrined in art history as the first American to gain membership to deluxe avant-garde circles of Surrealism and Dada. Several of Man Ray’s works, like Le Violon Read More
The auction of Yves Saint Laurent‘s art collection in Paris last night brought in an astounding $262 million, according to Bloomberg. In fact, the sale set records for works of seven of the major artists, including Henri Matisse’s 1911 still life of cowslips in a vase titled Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose, Read More
At last, a life and an album about Lee Miller, one of the most beautiful women who ever lived—an account that’s generally free from the adoration, the caution and the flat-out evasion that have spoiled so many other books.
Yes, there could be more pictures—not just those Miller took herself at the end of Read More
At last, a life and an album about Lee Miller, one of the most beautiful women who ever lived—an account that’s generally free from the adoration, the caution and the flat-out evasion that have spoiled so many other books.
Yes, there could be more pictures—not just those Miller took herself at the end of Read More
Photography made its entry into the arena of the fine arts as a kind of substitute for painting, yet in the course of its long history it has annexed itself to a broad spectrum of interests ranging from social reportage and historical documentary to esoteric aestheticism and pure abstraction. Sooner or later, however, most professional Read More
“No sneakers, shorts or jeans,” warned the reservationist when I booked a table for dinner at Man Ray. It’s not a dress code you’d expect to be observed by Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, John Malkovich or Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall, all of whom are partners in this new restaurant, owned by French record producer Thierry Read More
Over the hiss of a transatlantic cell-phone call, Thierry Klemeniuk, the owner of the newly opened Man Ray restaurant on West 15th Street, was asked to explain how a group of privacy-loving celebrities like Johnny Depp, Sean Penn and John Malkovich ended up as investors in a large, public, 12,000-square-foot, 200-seat restaurant in Manhattan. Read More
