“Depressing” is a word I find myself using a lot this week, and in the weeks leading up to the holiday-season cornucopia of year-end movies. Don’t worry. War Horse, Steven Spielberg’s master blend of heartwarming artistry and entertainment, is on the way. Meanwhile, I fear too many people who cannot bear to Read More
Times may be tough for New York’s museums, but that isn’t stopping the Metropolitan Museum of Art from mounting a major loan exhibition later this year. On December 19, the museum opens “The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini,” a blockbuster that will include about 160 works from more than 40 museums around the world. Read More
GABRIELLE: Saturday.
I wake up feeling sick today, nauseous and tired. I dry heave off the side of the bed uncontrollably. Todd rouses, “You OK?”
“I’m fine, just need to eat.” I scamper to the kitchen and open the fridge. Nothing looks appealing so I grab a cold Poland Spring and head to Read More
Walking west on 22nd Street, heading toward the Robert Gober show at Matthew Marks Gallery, I caught sight of what looked to be a diptych in the window of the D’Amelio Terras Gallery-two canvases, each depicting a hot-air balloon. D’Amelio Terras wasn’t on my short list of places to visit; it wasn’t even on my Read More
I recently turned the key to the apartment that my wife and I had once called home and encountered a setting that was both familiar and strange. Our stuff was there, but the place no longer looked or smelled like it belonged to us. The tenants who had sublet the place had moved our furniture, Read More
What a strange and uncomfortable business it is, this
six-decades-late apology by the president of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski,
for the raw and unprovoked murder of the 1,600 Jewish men, women and children
of Jedwabne by their Christian neighbors. It’s no surprise that this apology
angered the local priest, as well as Cardinal Józef Glemp, who Read More
Houston: An Intimate Portrait
On the evening of Aug. 12, Houston the porn star was getting ready to go on stage in the basement dressing room of Legz Diamond’s Burlesque Theatre, an all-nude, no-alcohol strip club on West 54th Street, across from the Ed Sullivan Theater.
There was only half an hour before show Read More
