Photo by Barbara Brown

Eva Hesse had a short but intense -- and intensely productive -- life.

An artist who began with one dimensional drawings and paintings but who moved through two dimensional wall hangings and then eventually to room sized sculptures, Hesse...

I was recently in Italy, far away from the Brussels bombings, yet I received many many emails and texts from people worried about my safety. In actual fact, I had been closer to the San Bernadino events than anything in Europe (though mighty close in London for the subway bombings...

Nora Ephron, along with Joan Didion before her and Mary McCarthy before her, were my literary heroines, the Lit Supremes of the 20th century. Forget Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina (both created by...

David Weiss (left) and Peter Fischli (right) in their Zürich studio, ca. 1987, courtesy the Fischli Weiss Archive, Zürich

I know I am not alone in standing in a gallery filled with conceptual art and scratching my head. I am used to this...

A quick head's up for all you design junkies, I know you're out there right now Instagramming your way to bliss.

Here's a fast way to access the real thing.

The Cooper Hewitt is holding its Design Triennial. Now some of us know that triennials, as in Milano,...

Robert Smithson,

I'm immediately drawn to any film with the title of Troublemakers and this one does not let go.

The film by James Crump does something that is rare for art documentaries: It is very beautiful and dynamic itself...

It has been a short but well-travelled road for LA Dance Project, Benjamin Milliepied's artistic dance collective. From the first steps on the white-carpeted galleries of LA MoCA in 2012 to last night's performance at the chic enclave of the Wallis Theater in the old Beverly Hills post office, LADP...

American Experience is airing their season opening film tonight on Bonnie and Clyde. It's comprehensive and thoughtful, and grounds the story most of us came to know through the 1967 film directed by Arthur...

Photo of the Schindler House by Joshua White

The Schindler House in West Hollywood, California was an experiment in living as much as the Philip Johnson Glass House or the Farnsworth House or the Eames House, though...

Hillary and Bill Clinton at Yale circa 1972

I love this picture of Hillary and Bill. They look like people I could have been friends with. They give me hope.

I've been having lots of conversations on both sides of aisle about the election...

Alberto Burri, whose magnificent retrospective is in its last weeks at the Guggenheim was a man who made limonata out of limoni.

Burri was born in 1915, and became a young fascist...

About seven years ago, I began a crazy relationship with flamenco, a dance I had never had any intention of pursuing. I had been a Balanchine baby and my first love, ballet, though still the thing that made my heart soar, was also the very thing that drove me crazy...

The 2015 Rolex Mentors and Proteges

"Pinch me," said Miroslav Penkov, the Bulgarian writing protégé of Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) one of seven Rolex protégés in this, the seventh round of their Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative. I felt precisely...

Underneath this very majestic staircase in the basement apartment, Truman Capote was putting the finishing touches on his pearl-of-a-girl Holly Golighty in Breakfast at Tiffany's. By day he would write, often after...

You remember John Ford's film The Gapes of Wrath, the dust, the trucks, an early 20th century version of the Leftovers living in their camp without the right wristbands to get into the safe place. You remember the iconic images from The Family of Man, the Museum of Modern Art's...

As we enter high auction season where the focus of the art world is squarely on the dollar, there is the perfect antidote: a new film biography of Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict. The film is straightforward but...

The Glass House designed by Philip Johnson, photo by Christa Carr

When I was growing up in New Rochelle, known more for being the first northern city to have court-ordered integration than for its beauty, we used to hear about places like Darien...

For many years, especially in the 1950s through 1970s, women artists and writers did their best to keep up with the guys. When the feminist movement came along, they resented being lumped into a category that defined them as "women artists." Why, they had spent their formative, creative lives trying...

The entryway to the Chicago Architecture Biennial

Chicago is tired of being flown over. It is tired of being called the third coast. It is tired of being known for its fierce wind, multiple members of the Daley family, and the Mob. It...