We don’t see all that much of the island’s inhabitants, but there is a British immigrant community there – a minister and his two adult daughters, and various fairly interchangeable highbrow artists and writers. Macaulay has a lot of fun at their expense – e.g. John the painter: John...
The Painter’s Room, Claridge’s Every ounce of Claridge’s is breathtaking and if you’re yet to visit, The Painter’s Room might just convince you. Inspired by the arty haunts in Provence and Italy, the art deco style bar is a cosy speakeasy. Expect tones of light baby pinks, velvet...
COMBINED TALENTS come together in Taylor Gordon’s Born to Be: Mexican painter, caricaturist, and illustrator Miguel Covarrubias (left, in a 1920s photo by Nickolas Muray) and Harlem Renaissance singer Gordon (center, in a photo by Carl Van Vechten, who is pictured in a self-portrait at rig...
He was a painter whose paintings never quite lived up to his hopes – and certainly never got the acclaim he sought. On the other hand, he was an art critic of great repute, whose writings of criticism were popular and respected by many – while also being castigated with horror by the...
In his weekly art gallery column,Murdock Pembertonnoted the New Year’s Day opening of the New School for Social Research in a “timid landmark” designed byJoseph Urbanof theatrical design fame. The school’s boardroom featured a series of murals by realist painterThomas Hart Benton. ...
Ray Hanrahan is a once-famous painter now looking to have an exhibit of new work and hopefully reviving his fame. Ray is not a nice man. He’s a narcissist who loves to make his family miserable. His favorite target is his wife, Lucia. She’s an artist herself and she’s been getti...
The difference between them is that one type is able to jump and walk up and down slopes, while the other is unable to do either of these things. A less common, very fast-moving type of Waddle Dee can also be found in a few locations; this form appears behind Kirby once he ...
In “The Talk of the Town,” White also looked to the new year, which would seeAlSmith’sEmpire State Building rise into the air and forevermore define the city’s skyline, even if his dirigible mooring mast proved to be more of a marketing stunt than a working feature of the new sk...
The school’s boardroom featured a series of murals by realist painter Thomas Hart Benton. NEW LOOK FOR NEW SCHOOL…Joseph Urban’s interpretation of the International Style for the New School for Social Research at 66 West 12th Street. AMERICAN TABLEAU…Three panels from Thomas Hart Benton’s...
Le Corbusier, aka Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887–1965), was known as a pioneer of modern architecture and design in the early and mid-20th century, but as this review by Lewis Mumford suggested, he was also a talented modernist painter. WAYS OF SEEING…Le Corbusier’s early paintings fo...