On a rainy day in Manhattan there’s no better thing to do than to watch an Andy Warhol film. Luckily, the MoMA was showing Harlot, which consists of one very long (67-minute) shot of a transvestite in a white ballgown, ratty blonde wig, and diamond jewels. ‘She’ reclines on a couch, nestled in with a [...]

I was recently in the somewhat posh position of choosing a print to take home from the Yale University Art Gallery collection. Two dozen lithographs, engravings, and photographs were laid out in the pristine climate-controlled space on the fourth floor of the museum.
Gauche things to do in the Yale University Art Gallery Print Room:

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Sometimes things work out for the best. And sometimes that is just what people tell you when something unfortunate happens. My sister recently planned to escape from her most recent life slump of living with her father and working as an unpaid intern. She would jet off to Kiev, a rarely visited eastern European city [...]

I met a blonde woman in Manhattan wearing an enormous diamond-encrusted watch and those Dior flower rings that I imagined were only bought as sweet 16 gifts for Russian heiresses. The blinged-out woman’s exact age was ambiguous, but she could have been anywhere from 24 to 40. I asked her what she did for a [...]