On Sept. 14, demonstrators showed up at the legendary Palace of Versailles to protest the opening of “Murakami: Versailles.”
A couple of groups, including one dubbed Coordination in Defense of Versailles, have asked for an “international mobilization” to remove the riotously colored and sometimes sexually explicit Japanese Pop artist’s works from the hallowed halls once Read More
The Vancouver Gallery moves to avoid marijuana fumes, a Chelsea gallery owner and a media magnate are sued for swindling artists, and Russian curators are indicted for a controversial exhibition. This week in art news: art worlders getting into trouble.
1. Versailles to Hold Annual Contemporary Exhibitions
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami will be the Read More
Marie Antoinette was loudly booed in Cannes. Well, why not? Who is Sofia Coppola to deliver a revisionist view of the French Revolution—to the French? Some critics chalked it up to typical French mal élevé. But now that this gilded fleur-de-lis has landed with a 10-ton thud at the New York Film Festival (with a Read More
Old-fashioned etiquette is alive and well and living in Palm Beach. While vacationing there last week, I saw the kind of extreme posturing and genuflection which one associates with 18th-century Versailles. Everywhere you look, there are doddering titans of industry kissing the backs of ladies’ hands and deftly inserting gilt dining chairs under lifted bottoms. Read More
“Actually, it’s rather nice that it’s so quiet,” said my companion one afternoon after the only other customers in the dining room had left. “It makes me feel pleasantly sleepy and like taking a nap.”
We had just finished a lavish lunch in the newly refurbished restaurant at the Hôtel Plaza Athénée, so he could Read More
Did you ever think that in this last quarter of the last
year of the last century of the second millennium, we’d be debating World War
I? Or that a three-line, four-column front-page headline in The New York Times would contain the
words “Versailles Pact”? Those two words haven’t been featured so prominently
in any Read More
July 17. Dear Diary: C’est moi , Phyllis Stine. C’est moi . Where was I? Right: I didn’t get the job as editor in chief of Harper’s Bazaar . Decided I could make a career working for Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate campaign. Helping Hillary “listen” to what constituents want because, after all, I have Read More
J une 28. Flight 199 to Los Angeles, American Airlines. Dear Diary: C’est moi , Phyllis Stine. Who else should it be in Seat 2A?
Très désolée . Très, très désolée … not to mention desolate, disconsolate and heartbroken. Ferociously depressed. It has been over two years since Mr. Stine went the way of all Read More
