Where We Live
Atlanta, Georgia, 1996. Photo via Laurence Miller Gallery David Graham’s “Where We Live: Photographs of the American Home” is at Laurence Miller Gallery through June 26. Graham’s photographs span more...
View ArticleSplit Screens: An Interview with Richard McGuire
Photo © Maelle Doliveux Last November, on his birthday, I accompanied Richard McGuire to the emergency room. He was experiencing some excruciating back pain. Richard is an unusually polite and...
View ArticleThe Coltrane Home in Dix Hills
The deceptively ordinary house where Coltrane composed A Love Supreme. Coltrane’s unassuming house in Dix Hills. In an empty corner of a modest home in suburban New York, hiding beneath a construction...
View ArticleHow I Got Millayed
A day in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s gardens at Steepletop. Millay at Mitchell Kennerly’s house in Mamaroneck, New York, 1914. In high school, I had a simple assignment to write a report on a poet. I...
View ArticleHoliday Travel
The night crowd. I grew up in a Manhattan apartment whose view encompassed sky, clouds, and other apartments. For a while I kept a pair of binoculars on the windowsill. I used them before going to bed,...
View ArticleThe Spoil of Destruction
The house Thomas Mann described as “so completely my own” could be torn down. Mann, in 1941, at his Pacific Palisades home, with his wife, Katia, and two of their grandchildren. Thomas Mann’s house in...
View ArticleIdeas and a New Hat
Francesca Woodman’s playful darkness. Francesca Woodman, Space 2, 1976. Francesca Woodman died on this day in 1981. Digital subscribers can see a portfolio of her early work in our Spring 2014 issue....
View ArticleThe Library at Grey Gardens
Photo: Lesley M. M. Blume A few years ago, when I heard through the grapevine that Grey Gardens was up for rent, I thought it had to be a bizarre joke: What kind of a sick twist would pay to spend...
View ArticleOnce I Had This Dream
“Once I Had This Dream,” an exhibition of paintings by Gretchen Scherer, is at Art 3 Gallery through June 24. Scherer, who lives and works in Brooklyn, paints rambling manses and crumbling chateaux as...
View ArticleThe Library at Grey Gardens
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2017. Enjoy your holiday! Photo: Lesley M. M. Blume A few years ago, when I heard through the grapevine that Grey...
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