Dawn Upshaw: with a song in her heart
Einstein said that “the definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.” So it is no surprise that Dawn Upshaw was…
Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun at The Met
When Ann Sutherland Harris and Linda Nochlin created their landmark exhibit “Women Artists: 1550-1950” in 1976, they included the 18th-century French portraitist Elisabeth Vigée…
For love of money
Poor money. It’s having a rough time of late. Baby New Year was barely born when the national and international markets landed with a…
Crazy love
What causes someone to become obsessed with another person or to think that person is secretly in love with him — or her —…
Drawing attention to big cats
It is no accident that turtles hatched at Robert Dallet’s home in southern France on the day of his funeral service any more than…
Family farm to family table
Having lunch with the Morano family at Lago, their restaurant in the Silver Lake section of Harrison, means knowing the warm embrace of an…
Distinctively Sisley
When you think of Sisley — the luxe cosmetics line developed by one of the most storied families in beauty — you think first…
Time out with Carson Kressley
Makeover maestro Carson Kressley surveyed the audience of roughly 200 who turned out for “The Makeup Date” at Bloomingdale’s White Plains on a pleasant…
Good food with a heaping helping of family at City Limits Diner
It’s not quite lunchtime at City Limits Diner in White Plains, but already the restaurant is jumping. Out front, regular patron and fashion expert…
Mixing it up
When Ken Downing speaks, Neiman Marcus – and, by extension, its customers – listens. That’s in part because he occupies a very important place in…
All in the (Greek-American) family
When you walk into the recently refurbished Royal Regency Hotel in Yonkers, what first catches your eye is a spacious, chic foyer and then…
The Plantagenets
There have been the ever-popular Tudors, the tabloid-ready Windsors and the tragic Romanovs. But it’s fair to say there’s never been a royal family…
Face time at The Spa at Delamar Greenwich Harbor
Winter is traditionally a time for dry skin, but for some of us, the arid season never seems to end. So when The Spa…
Now pitching for education … Mariano Rivera
The cycle of family life has an imperfectly perfect symmetry. Witness New York Yankees legend Mariano Rivera. “I didn’t finish school. I went to…
My big fat Greek family drama
“All happy families are alike,” Leo Tolstoy wrote in “Anna Karenina.” “Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Fiction — for which…
Tootsie nirvana
This past May, the Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa at The Westchester in White Plains reopened after a $2 million facelift that refurbished the…
Renaissance Athena
The CW’s “Reign” — which casts Mary, Queen of Scots as an insipid Goody Two-Shoes and her mother-in-law Catherine de’ Medici and rival/cousin Elizabeth…
Our ‘dinner’ with André
“As grand as he is humble” was the way André Leon Talley described his friend and mentor Oscar de la Renta after the Katonah…
Exceeding his grasp: Andrea del Sarto at The Frick and The Met
He was one of the finest artists you’ve probably never heard of. Or maybe you know the work but not his name. Or you…
The thing with feathers
Sculptor Sarah Haviland has always been passionate about nature and the feminine in nature. In the 1990s, her superb goddess sculptures — such as…