(An Appropriate Distance)

 

FROM THE MAYOR'S DOORSTEP

Down in the bowels of West 21st Street, Larry Gagosian, who is to Chelsea what P. T. Barnum was to circuses, has mounted what he obviously hopes will be the same kind of historical blockbuster that his big late Picasso show was last season. “Claude Monet: Late Work,” curated by Paul Hayes Tucker,  Read More 

I've meant to offer an updating of the political situation since I last commented upon it, but been distracted because I've been helping the U.S. government conduct its decennial census. This is an at least equally worthy and (in its way) fascinating endeavor, but exhausting & time-consuming. However, a number of art and/or literature news items, in New York and elsewhere, demand brief exposure, so here they are: Read More