Celia McGee

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Articles

A Brazilian Artist's Plates Come to Upper Manhattan

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Celia McGee |George Etheredge

New additions to Adriana Varejão's acclaimed "Plate" series are showing at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, in her first solo museum exhibit in New York. The Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão has her first solo museum show in New York. "Adriana Varejão: Don't Forget, We Come From the Tropics" runs until June 22 at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in Upper Manhattan. Credit...
Peter Godwin's Fourth Memoir is "A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars"

2 months ago | airmail.news | Celia McGee

Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars by Peter Godwin Writing a memoir can be like entering a war zone: sometimes hand-to-hand combat, sometimes a navigation of minefields, or guerrilla tactics, or killing on remote. Peter Godwin reports from deep within those recesses. He’s battle-scarred as a soldier and as a journalist. He’s been embedded in a family history of secrets and half-truths he has declined to leave undisturbed.
A New Exhibition at Met Reimagines the Fascinating History of Chinoiserie

Mar 27, 2025 | galeriemagazine.com | Celia McGee

Installation view of "Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision ofChinoiserie," on viewMarch 25–August 17, 2025 at The MetropolitanMuseum of Art.
"Jane Austen's Bookshelf," by Rebecca Romney: Book Review

Feb 13, 2025 | airmail.news | Celia McGee

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest To Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney Anyone who thinks there’s no possible connection between Jane Austen and Las Vegas doesn’t know that Rebecca Romney, author of Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, has, to her credit—if you want to call it that—a significant stretch of airtime as the rare-books specialist on the History Channel’s Pawn Stars.
Paola Antonelli’s “Pirouette” at MoMA Is an Ode to the Power of Design

Jan 27, 2025 | galeriemagazine.com | Celia McGee

Installation view of “Pirouette: Turning Points in Design,” on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from January 26 through October 18, 2025.
Collector Tom Hanks Loans Legendary Typewriters for Exhibit in Sag Harbor

Jan 14, 2025 | galeriemagazine.com | Celia McGee

Cole Steel Portable. Photo: Joe Jagos. Courtesy of The Church Sag Harbor The Academy Award-winning actor has amassed 300 of the machines, a tribute to his wide-ranging affection and appreciation of their history January 14, 2025 Royal Standard Photo: Joe Jagos.
Taking on Nora Ephron, Movie by Movie and Book by Book

Oct 29, 2024 | nytimes.com | Celia McGee

Late afternoon was still too early to have what Nora Ephron would have been having when she went out to dinner at Cafe Luxembourg, on Manhattan's Upper West Side: the pan-seared lamb chops, served with some off-menu mint jelly the brasserie kept in a jar in the kitchen especially for her. Instead, Ilana Kaplan, whose illustrated monograph " Nora Ephron at the Movies " comes out today, just went with chamomile tea.
The Morgan Honors Its 'Personal Librarian'

Oct 24, 2024 | nytimes.com | Celia McGee

This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. Belle da Costa Greene wasn't just a woman of the world but of several worlds. As the handpicked librarian to J.P. Morgan, she helped amass an unmatched collection focused on rare books, manuscripts, and drawings, and helped build a treasure box designed by the architecture firm of McKim, Mead & White to house them.
"Rosario Candela & The New York Apartment" Book Review: Jazz Age Architecture's King

Oct 18, 2024 | airmail.news | Celia McGee

Rosario Candela & the New York Apartment, 1927–1937: The Architecture of the Age by David Netto, Paul Goldberger, and Peter Pennoyer They weren’t schoolboy crushes, but pretty close.
India Hicks's "Lady Pamela": Book Review

Aug 30, 2024 | airmail.news | Celia McGee

Lady Pamela: My Mother’s Extraordinary Years as Daughter to the Viceroy of India, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen, and Wife of David Hicks by India Hicks It pays to be a pack rat—or, in this case, maybe a pack ermine—when your daughter comes calling about turning your life into a coffee-table book.