Sex and the garden
byGardens and gardening remain lush, moist, sticky, tangled metaphors for hot, sometimes illicit sex, don’t they?
Gardens and gardening remain lush, moist, sticky, tangled metaphors for hot, sometimes illicit sex, don’t they?
The latest trend in masks – double masking.
Great civilizations rest on the shoulders of great leaders, but in the end, that leadership may not stem the tide of history. And yet without real leadership, nations have little chance to survive – and thrive.
“Amazon” – as in the river that snakes through South America and the idea of bold women – is having a moment in our area, spotlighting a word and a concept, powerful females, that have been fraught for Western civilization.
Leisure, Aristotle wrote, affords the greatest opportunity for personal fulfillment and happiness. And so I set out to test this on Arrangements Abroad’s “Legacy of Alexander the Great: Northern Greece & Athens” tour.
In the Russian nesting doll of narratives that is art history, “Secret Departure of Ivan the Terrible” is not merely a Nazi-looted work. It is also part of a genre – the man on horseback – that sweeps us from the ancient world to our own time, in which it has become a symbol of the controversy over Confederate monuments as well as a metaphor for dystopia.
“Turandot” (1926) – Giacomo Puccini’s last opera – offers what Copland House director Michael Boriskin calls “the fascinating question of legacy.”
In the graceful pages James Sherwood’s new “Jewelry for Gentlemen” (Thames & Hudson), the gentlemen vie in beauty with the objects of their desire.
Although he was short of money, Alexander did not want to leave his men without financial resources. He enquired very carefully into their circumstances,…
When we think of Greece, we think of Greco-Roman ruins. But the country also has a rich Byzantine tradition – courtesy of St. Paul…
In WAG’s June “Celebrating the Globe” issue, I wrote http://www.wagmag.com/greek-to-me/ about my passion – OK, some would say my obsession – with all things…
I have been in love with the ancient Greeks since I was a child. It began with a Scholastic book on the Greek gods…
“So,” a publicist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art asked teasingly, “are there enough Alexanders for you?” She knows me only too well. Lover…
This coming week is your last chance to see “Bulgari & Rome: Eternal Inspiration” at the Italian jeweler’s Fifth Avenue flagship. The small, show-stopping…
Persia, conquered by Alexander the Great on Oct. 1 331 B.C. at the Battle of Gaugamela on the plains of what is now northern…
Alexander the Great’s consolidation of an empire that stretched 22,000 miles from the Balkans to northern India some 300 years before Christ still resonates…
They are the stuff of myth, legend and romance, beloved by artists and writers, irresistible even to historians, who should know better than to…
Please, no jokes about “What’s in a name?” We all know the answer is always “plenty.” A name is an identity, so much so…
The last time I talked with Baz Luhrmann, he was presenting his take on “La Bohème” on Broadway, and the two of us had…
What is it about the road that beckons, that stretches out – teasingly, tantalizingly — before us?