Robert Frank emailed The Observer on Wednesday as to why he and his wife recently spent $4.2 million on a penthouse loft at 73 Fifth Avenue: ”We bought because this was an ideal family home at good value, to the degree that either exists in Manhattan. It wasn’t a reflection of our view on the market, which seems even more Read More
“Looking In: Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’” at the Metropolitan Museum is one of the best shows of photography in years. It is not a complete retrospective. It concentrates on the years 1955 though ’57, when the Swiss-born photographer drove cross-country on a Guggenheim grant on a three-legged, 10,000-mile trip that took him from New York Read More
Tina Gaudoin, an editor who worked closely with Wall Stret Journal publisher Robert Thomson at the Times of London, has been named the editor of Pursuits, the quarterly luxury magazine the paper will start in the fall. Media Mob reported on Jan. 18 that Ms. Gaudoin was the favorite to take over after Robert Read More
It was expected for a while that Robert Frank would run the Journal‘s prospective weekend glossy, Pursuits. When The New York Times broke the story about Pursuits in September, Richard Perez Pena reported that Mr. Frank was the favorite; the Observer reported later that he had a meeting with Mr. Murdoch and drew Read More
The American sculptor Raoul Hague, whose work is currently on exhibition at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., in Soho, was born Haig Heukelekian in Constantinople in 1905 and died in Woodstock, N.Y., in 1993. Although much admired in his lifetime-especially after 1956, when Dorothy Miller showed his work in the influential Twelve Americans exhibition at the Museum Read More
