Penelope Green
Obits and Feature Writer at The New York Times
Obits & features writer for The New York Times
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Penelope Green
NEW YORK — Marcia Marcus, a figurative and conceptual artist with a steely will and a bold contemporary style who found fame in the 1960s and then was largely overlooked until she was nearly 90, though she kept working, confidently, decade after decade, died March 27 in Manhattan. She was 97. Her death, in a nursing facility, was announced by her daughters, Kate Prendergast and Jane Barrell Yadav.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Penelope Green
Marcia Marcus, a figurative and conceptual artist with a steely will and a bold contemporary style who found fame in the 1960s and then was largely overlooked until she was nearly 90, though she kept working, confidently, decade after decade, died on March 27 in Manhattan. She was 97. Her death, in a nursing facility, was announced by her daughters, Kate Prendergast and Jane Barrell Yadav.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Penelope Green
The article of which he was most proud was "The Woman Who Beat the Klan," published in The Times Magazine in 1987, about Beulah Mae Donald, who sued the Ku Klux Klan for the 1981 murder of her son - he was hanged from a tree, with his throat slit, and no one was charged with the crime - and won. In 2023, he wrote about how he came to that story. The Southern Poverty Law Center had sent a postcard photo of 19-year-old Michael Donald, hanging from a tree, as a fund-raising request.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Penelope Green
Reinaldo Herrera, a dapper Venezuelan aristocrat, married to fashion designer Carolina Herrera, whose social connections made him an indispensable story wrangler and all-around fixer for Vanity Fair magazine, where he served as a contributing editor for more than three decades, died March 18 in the Manhattan borough of New York City. He was 91. His daughter Patricia Lansing confirmed the death. Mr. Herrera was born into South American nobility and grew up between Caracas, Paris, and New York.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Penelope Green
He performed the same service for Mr. Carter when he took over the magazine in 1992. In 1996, Mr. Carter was eager for the writer Sally Bedell Smith to pursue a piece about the Rothschilds, the European banking family, and he thought the funeral of one of its scions, who died by suicide at a hotel in Paris that July, might be the way in. But how to sneak Ms. Smith into the service? Mr. Herrera knew just what to do.
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Her patients shredded sofas, toilet paper and romantic partners. They galloped over their sleeping humans in the wee hours. They hissed at babies, dogs and other cats. They chewed electrical wires. They sulked in closets and went on hunger strikes. https://t.co/gFp7BKM8oY
“I believe that storytelling can be a strategy to help you make sense out of your life.”https://t.co/HOpJsSuVOv
She was a trompe l’oeil wizard. Her medium: ordinary craft paper. She used acrylic paint and gouache to simulate satin, silk and leather, the glint of light on a pearl, the delicate tracery of lace, the gold thread of an elaborate brocade. https://t.co/OiYnjd1wLT