Julia Halperin

1 week ago | culturedmag.com | Julia Halperin

Keith McNally opens his new memoir with a quote from George Orwell that reads: “Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.” Rest assured, the scandal-prone restaurateur's book passes the test. I Regret Almost Everything takes readers back to the East End of London, where the founder of beloved downtown New York eateries like the Odeon, Balthazar, and Minetta Tavern had a hardscrabble upbringing.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Zachary Small |Julia Halperin

Hauser & Wirth artists have major exhibitions everywhere you look, spotlighting the rising influence of powerful art galleries on the city's top museums, a Times report found. Earlier this month the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrated the opening of an exhibition by the painter Amy Sherald - Michelle Obama's official portraitist - with a champagne toast over lush arrangements of daffodils and yellow ranunculus.

3 weeks ago | culturedmag.com | Julia Halperin

Image courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery. In the early 1970s, Olga de Amaral took a trip that changed her life. While visiting the United Kingdom with the World Crafts Council, the Colombian artist stopped by the studio of the ceramicist Lucie Rie. Amaral was struck by Rie’s interpretation of kintsugi, the Japanese practice of repairing broken pottery by gluing shards together with golden lacquer.

3 weeks ago | culturedmag.com | Julia Halperin

Chloe Fineman wears a full look by Valentino at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Peter B. Lewis Theater in New York. CULTURED’s second annual CULT100 issue spotlights 100 names across five generations who are shaping our culture in real time. Some members of the list are household names; others have been working behind the scenes to make possible the encounters that stop us in our tracks. They are all thinking big, sharing generously, and embodying courage.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Julia Halperin |Winnie Au

In 1999 Ann Craven lost nearly everything in a studio fire. Since then, she has made "revisitation" paintings. Next month, these works will be shown across Maine. This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. "Welcome to the laboratory!"That's how the artist Ann Craven, 58, greeted me when we met in the stairwell of her archive in Harlem.