When requested to explain the circumstances of her start, the Surrealist painter and author Leonora Carrington appreciated to inform people who she had not been born; she had been made. One melancholy ...

Your first impression of “Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented, 1918-1939,” an enormous and thrilling present, on the Museum of Modern Art, of interwar Soviet and European graphic de ...

Once, in another life, I was a tech founder. It was the late nineties, when the Web was young, and everyone was trying to cash in on the dot-com boom. In college, two of my dorm mates and I discovered ...

The director Wes Anderson is making a movie in a large studio in the East End of London while seated at his desk in Montparnasse, in Paris. His workspace is as carefully arrayed as the set of one of h ...

“Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession,” John Steinbeck wrote in “Travels with Charley: In Search of America,” his 1962 book. Then he doubled down: “But I think it is more than that. It is a ...