Clichés die hard and slow, mainly because most people simplify things in order to process them. When it comes to art collecting, people love to talk up the storied collectors of old to give hope to new art buyers. Consider the oft-told tale of Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a retired postal clerk and an ex-librarian Read More
Late last decade, Peter Norton, the Buddhist monk turned software pioneer turned art magnate, was modest and enlightened enough to choose a Manhattan apartment so unassuming that his architect, Maya Lin, complained it was too small and dark. After all, the place was a ground-floor duplex, partially below ground.
Mr. Norton’s tastes have apparently Read More
In The Transom: Mike Leigh and Scott Elliott lunch at Balthazar; Judy Dench, Joan Collins, and Kathleen Turner consider the war in Iraq; When Is a Chair Not a Chair? When it’s at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Peter Norton is buying them. Plus! Our East End Correspondent Taffy Winesap Settles in for Read More
As the Whitney Biennial launches this week to the usual hyperbolic chorus of yays and nays, behind the scenes at the museum, a major change is happening. There was a new face at the Whitney’s board meeting last week. A new familiar face: Peter Norton, the software magnate, contemporary-art collector and accomplished board hopper, who Read More
On July 29, Maxwell Anderson was named director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, replacing David Ross, who resigned in March to assume the directorship of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A Greek and Roman classicist who graduated from Dartmouth College and has most recently been the director of the Art Gallery Read More
