Only 500 copies of Alexey Brodovitch’s “Ballet” were printed when it was published in 1945, yet this modest artist’s book would come to have a seismic influence on the course of photography. Like the rarest works in the genre — “The Americans” by Robert Frank (1958) or “Evidence” by Mike …
Brad Holland, an idiosyncratic artist who upended American illustration in the 1970s with his startling imagery for Playboy magazine and The New York Times’s opinion page, spawning a generation of imitators, died on March 27 in Manhattan. He was 81. His brother, Thomas Holland, said he died in a hospital …
On a snowy night just before Valentine’s Day, Cultured magazine gave a party for its February-March 2025 edition. It was held at Quarters, a TriBeCa space that is both a furniture store and a wine bar. The place was packed. The cover star, the actress Cristin Milioti, was there, and …
On a snowy night just before Valentine’s Day, Cultured magazine gave a party for its February-March 2025 edition. It was held at Quarters, a TriBeCa space that is both a furniture store and a wine bar. The place was packed. The cover star, the actress Cristin Milioti, was there, and …
“Does Brittany look oppressed to you?” Gabriel Hugoboom asked, gesturing toward his wife. Mrs. Hugoboom did not. The model, clad in thigh-high black boots, was perched on a cream-colored couch in the couple’s new apartment, poking fun at her critics. As editor in chief of Evie, a women’s publication opposed …
The archives of The New Yorker, housed at the New York Public Library, consist of more than 2,500 boxes of manuscripts, letters, page proofs, cartoons, art, photographs and memos. They are studded with the celebrated names — E.B. White, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Rachel Carson — that filled this most …
In late 1967, the music journalist Stanley Booth was on assignment to write about the Memphis soul sound for The Saturday Evening Post when he watched Otis Redding and the guitarist and producer Steve Cropper sit on folding chairs at Stax Records in Memphis as they composed “(Sittin’ on) The …