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If you're in or near New York City this summer, I'd recommend you travel to the upper part of Museum Mile --1220 5th Avenue. That...

Mistress and Maid   by  Johannes Vermeer  c. 1667 in the Frick Collection .   Has it really been five years since I was last at the Frick pr...

Seeing a Vermeer painting may warrant a trip from New York to the  Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) ,  but I'm not certain that is what ...

Sculpture-topped fountain at Kykuit. Photo by Ariella Brown (all rights reserved) If you decide to explore some of  New York's historic ...

In email from Modcloth from Banana Republic When a holiday invented on a TV program becomes a real thing, we can only marvel at h...

Two current exhibits at the New York Historical Society offer a study in contrasts in representing the feminine ideal as represented by th...

As 2017 marked the 100th anniversary of the death of the most famous sculptor to emerge fromthe  19th Century,  I recently got a double dose...

Though the contexts may vary from those cloaked in spiritualism with suggestions of meals with a Buddah to those that guide you to a sta...

Perhaps you've seen some of these ambiguous image pictures in the past. Generally, at first glance you'll be sure of what you're...

This is a reworking of a post I wrote this past August 6th, Andy Warhol's birthday, and the same week of my visit to the Whitney Museum ...