Purr-fect paintings
Even finicky felines will relish Susan Herbert’s “Impressionist Cats.”
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Flights of fancy
In “LandEscape: New Visions of the Landscape from the Early 20th and 21st Centuries,” at the Katonah Museum of Art through June 16, viewers can immerse themselves in works from two seminal moments in art history when painters reimagined an ancient art form that has helped define our identity as a nation.
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Great design? Meh, maybe
Design implies a certain understated usefulness, as in modernist architect Louis Sullivan’s famous dictum: “Form follows function.”
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Reveling in sibling rivalry
Siblings are our most enduring relationships – longer than that of parent and child or spouses – and more complex than friends, because they assume a friendship, bound by blood.
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When French parks and gardens became, well, French
In 19th century France, a perfect storm of revolutionary equality and maritime botanical discoveries ushered in a new era of landscaping and, with it, a new approach to art.
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At home in cafés
Being a part of and apart from while creating in a café.
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Reaching for the stars
While he thought it a failure, Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” is one of the icons of the art world and New York.
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Against technology (sort of)
Technology has cost me one job and, often, my patience. But then, there’s Mr. Washing Machine and planet Pluto.
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The perfect place for a writer to live
I lived in a Pencil. What better place for a writer to dwell. Actually, “The Pencil” I lived in is a modern apartment building…
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