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ANNIE MAE YOUNG is looking at a photograph of a quilt she pieced together out of strips torn from well-worn cotton shirts and polyester pants. "I was doing this quilt […]

Steven Lerner transformed the former Sean Kelly Gallery in SoHo from a loft-gallery-apartment to a spacious, 19-window residence that properly reflects its artist-owners' tastes.

By Mary Gabriel. Algonquin. 372 pp. $24.95. Imagine someone a century from now setting out to examine our age through the lens of The Bill & Monica Show. The players [...]

By Barbara Goldsmith. Knopf. 531 pp. $30. Imagine someone a century from now setting out to examine our age through the lens of The Bill & Monica Show. The players [...]

By Ursula Hegi. Simon & Schuster. 302 pp. $24. A disproportionate number of the German-born baby boomers and their older siblings whom Ursula Hegi interviewed for her oral history see [...]

The article presents information about art in the form of exhibitions. Traditionally there have been a few other reasons for curators to mount exhibitions. Until a few season's back, the curator's priviledged and discerning eye appeared relatively immune to alterations in the museum environment. The need to follow money cannot wholly account for the growing disposition among curators to appropriate the apparatus of fiction and dramaturgy: character, narrative, action, emotion, conflict, drama.

A mother and daughter travel together in the Yucatan, and discuss their past. The mother immigrated from Germany when she was young, and has spent much of her life coming to terms with the loss of her homeland.

January 2003: The steel industry was in a slump. At the Charles C. Lewis steel processing plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, president Robert Cournoyer was facing the prospect of layoffs. Then [...]

At 2,250 degrees Fahrenheit the fire burns lime green. Embers and scraps of molten bronze skitter onto the concrete floor of an open-air shed housing the furnace. 'Sweep it up,' [...]

It's only fitting that the most eagerly awaited museum in the world of contemporary art is more than an hour removed from New York City's frenetic art scene. Many of […]

There comes a moment during the concert when Yoko Ono throws the audience an appraising look over her jumbo blue rimless glasses. She's a woman of 67 -- hard to [...]

After Victor Ganz died in 1987, his widow, Sally, spent much of her time in the room they had painted Picasso-red to set off the five paintings from Picasso's variations [...]

The article focuses on career development and work of artist Shahpour Pouyan. Topics include studying Neoplatonism at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy, and teaching history of Persian architecture at the University of Science and Culture in Tehran, Iran; his participation in the exhibition "Global/Local 1960–2015: Six Artists from Iran" at New York's Grey Art Gallery; and learning painting with artist Morteza Katouzian.

The article discusses two books "Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull," by Barbara Goldsmith and "Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored," by Mary Gabriel. In Other Powers, Barbara Goldsmith tells the story of Woodhull and her idealistic and corrupt times through a prism of the Beecher affair and trials that radiated from it. The another book by Gabriel, is an old-fashioned biography of Woodhull. It is simply the story of an extraordinary, maddening and paradoxical woman which is presented in a comprehensive manner.

The article focuses on the book, "Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America," by Ursula Hegi. A disproportionate number of the German-born baby boomers and their older siblings whom Ursula Hegi interviewed for her oral history see themselves as yet another species of hyphenated American "others," of the pink-cheeked, blue-eyed variety. They're sick of being called Nazis. Hegi's way of dealing with the dilemma is to expose the biographical viscera of the people she interviewed. Exorcism and forgiveness are Hegi's prescriptions for shame.