When the 82-year-old artist Howardena Pindell was a child, she saw herself in the face of a mummy. This was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in the late 1940s or early 1950s — she can’t quite remember the year. But she clearly recalls the painting, an eerily naturalistic Fayum portrait from Roman Egypt, which…
FOR ABOUT 20 years, beginning in the late 1930s, the New York-based artist Paul Cadmus, a satirist whose egg tempera paintings included scenes of drunken carousing and other lustful behavior, spent summers by the sea with his lover Jared French and French’s wife, Margaret Hoening French, both also painters. The trio — who called themselves…
Standing in his kitchen, with walls the color of green tea, Peter Daverington stops, closes his eyes and surrenders to Nina Simone’s melancholy rendition of “Mr. Bojangles,” a haunting lullaby of love and loss. He plays it twice. “This song is about taking on hardships with grace,” he explains. “Turning something ugly into something beautiful.”…
The 212 column revisits New York institutions that have helped define the city, from time-honored restaurants to unsung dives. CURRENTLY PROJECTED ON the walls at Artists Space, a nonprofit arts organization in TriBeCa, are two films by Carolyn Lazard that the 37-year-old artist shot inside a training center at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. Lazard, who…
Fashion and art have long danced a pas de deux, with artists evoking dress in their work and designers referencing art in their creations. But rarely are the two examined together by major art institutions, said Annabelle Ténèze, the director of the Musée du Louvre-Lens, a satellite in Lens, northern France, of the famed Musée…
