Where Central Park meets the city
Waking up in the Bahamas every morning would be perfect
Back in the 1950s and '60s, Carmen Herrera was making art, but her male counterparts were getting all of the attention. Now, at 101, she's still hard at work, and finally getting some long overdue recognition. For most of her career, Carmen Herrera's paintings of brightly colored geometric shapes went unnoticed, while ...
Hermann Max Pechstein (1881 - 1955) Boat at Sunrise
In Chase's 1888 Hide and Seek, two young girls — sisters, perhaps — play on a vast shimmering hardwood floor, in a sparely-decorated room. A mysterious painting. Who is hiding? Who is seeking? Is it just a game? Or is the painting about growing up — the older girl approaching the door to adulthood, the younger one looking at her own future? Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper and George Bellows were very different artists, but they did have ...