(An Appropriate Distance)

 

FROM THE MAYOR'S DOORSTEP

In its seemingly unrelenting search to come up with the “relevant,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art is giving us “Vigee Lebrun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France” (through May 15). This is the first retrospective in modern times of Elisabeth Louise Vigee Lebrun (1755-1842), billed as “France’s last great royal portraitist,” and not so coincidentally, a woman Read More