Everett Potter's Travel Report

By Richard West This month I come to praise the University of Chicago Press’s series, Cultural Trails: Adventures in Travel.  Here’s their manifesto from the website: “Whereas most travel books… Continue reading »

By Joan Rattner Heilman When I mentioned to some friends that I going to Portland, Maine, for a few days, three different people asked me “You have family there?”  Nope…. Continue reading »

By Bobbie Leigh Architects Todd Williams and Billie Tsien’s new Barnes Foundation in downtown Philadelphia is never referred to as a museum, but rather a campus. The modernist building, glass… Continue reading »

By Richard West In Scandinavia, unlike America,  independent English-language bookshops do not seem to be going the way of the last Tasmanian, the Dodo, the final passenger pigeon, politicians with… Continue reading »

By Bobbie Leigh 1. The art scene:  more contemporary galleries, auction houses, and even an “art hotel”  (The Mandarin Oriental).   The old Pedder Building  at 12 Pedder Street is no… Continue reading »

By Ian Keown It might seem odd that what first impressed me about the annual summer festival at Tanglewood in Massachusetts was the parking. I arrived there by car after… Continue reading »

  Richard West As surely as Hardy follows Laurel, the most attractive books that cross my desk year after year come from Haus Publishing’s The Armchair Traveller series. It’s not… Continue reading »

Reviewed by Bobbie Leigh Where can you  see a world where everyone is happy, healthy,  and  meticulously dressed in the latest fashion? Nine  iconic  Pierre-Auguste Renoir paintings at The Frick… Continue reading »

By Bobbie Leigh Don’t be misled. The Dia Art Foundation exhibition of Jean-Luc Moulène’s Opus + One is not an IQ test.  You don’t have to “get it” to relish… Continue reading »

By Bobbie Leigh Call them personal presents, something special for  you not for those on your holiday lists.    Here are some  2011  choices  among  hundreds of  great new books…  but… Continue reading »