Picasso’s “Le Tricorne” at New-York Historical Society
New York has always been a trove of hidden treasures. For more than half a century one of the city’s most beloved shrines was a somewhat concealed passageway known to cognoscenti as “Picasso Alley.” There in the corridor between the Grill Room and the…
Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’ at New-York Historical Society
Anyone who witnessed the documentary Bill Cunningham New York (2010) knows that the veteran New York Times photographer has a treasure trove of photographic evidence of his favorite city and its ongoing evolution. Riding about town on his trusty Schwinn,…
‘Scandalous’ Art at New-York Historical Society’s ‘The Armory Show at 100’
The things they said, the epithets they used: “repellent, violent, insane, degraded, ugly, vulgar, repugnant, poseurs, charlatans, grotesque, indecent, unreasonable, deranged.” And all this about what are now regarded as some of the most…