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The Artful Traveler: The Portable Diego Rivera
by Deborah Hay In 1931, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera was enjoying international celebrity, and New York’s fledgling Museum of Modern Art was eager to mount a retrospective of his work. Throughout the ‘20s, Rivera had painted monumental frescoes, commissioned by the Mexican government, reflecting his country’s history and the socialist
The Artful Traveler: Picasso in New York
At the Lapin Agile. Reviewed by Bobbie Leigh Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, is with us now more than ever. Visit the Met, MoMA, and the Jan Krugier Gallery and you will have begun the equivalent of Picasso 101. The next step is to read the three volume "A Life of Picasso"
Reinventing the Museum Restaurant: Where Culture and Cuisine Meet
The Wright at The Guggenheim. By Bobbie Leigh New York City museums are catching up –- to Paris, which boasts the knockout George restaurant in the Pompidou, and to England's dazzling glass box of a restaurant on top of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum. The newest New York museum dining incarnations are
The Artful Traveler: Waste Not
Reviewed by Bobbie Leigh Imagine that everything you might ordinarily throw away was kept in your house for a year. Then think 50 years. Unimaginable, except in China during the Cultural Revolution (1966/67) where some householders squirreled away everything from
What was Good Design? How MoMA Shaped the Modern Home
Reviewed by Deborah Hay La Chaise by Charles and Ray Eames On a recent visit to the design galleries of New York's Museum of Modern Art, I overheard more than one visitor declare a personal kinship to an item in the newest exhibition. "Wow! We