AMANDA: “Are there any cannibals there?” asked my culturally sensitive fiance, Dan, referring to the Cook Islands, the current focus of our honeymoon saga. We both have demanding jobs where the honeymoon is the one acceptable time to go away for a long while. So we’re trying to make the most of it Read More
On the evening of Monday, May 2, as rain pelted down from the sky (as has been its wont in prior years), guests scampered out of their cars, armored vehicles and trucks-no cabs, thank you!-and up toward the entrance of the Metropolitan Museum for the Costume Institute Gala: hems dragging through the puddles, furs mottling, Read More
The French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), currently the focus of a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has for so long been so highly acclaimed and so gleefully debunked that a critic revisiting his work in the first decade of the 21st century is obliged to surmount a good deal of documentary Read More
Of the many modern artists who have sought refuge from the
encroachments and commercialism of modern civilization in primitive,
out-of-the-way places of unspoiled natural beauty, the French painter Paul
Gauguin (1848-1903) is probably the most legendary. The story of his
life-quitting a profitable job on the Paris stock exchange and then abandoning
his wife and Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
