Eliot Fette Noyes Jr. was born on Oct. 18, 1942, in Alexandria, Va., and grew up in New Canaan, Conn. His father was a prominent industrial designer and architect whose designs included the IBM Selectric typewriter and round gas pumps for Mobil. His mother, Mary (Weed) Noyes, known as Molly,
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Christopher Durang, Playwright Who Mixed High Art and Low Humor, Dies at 75
Christopher Durang, a Tony Award-winning playwright and a master satirist, died Tuesday night at his home in Pipersville, Pa., in Bucks County. He was 75. His agent, Patrick Herold, said the cause was complications of aphasia. In 2016, Mr. Durang was found to have a rare form of dementia, logopenic
Protests Over Gaza Intensify at American Art Museums
The event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in February was titled “Love Letter to SoMa,” after the San Francisco neighborhood that the contemporary art museum calls home. But eight of the artists involved in it staged an intervention called “Love Letter to Gaza,” altering their own works,
World Series champ Steve Sax digitizes Babe Ruth art to raise money for foundation in honor of late Marine son
On June 8, 2022, five U.S. Marines who were part of Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, died in a military aircraft accident in California that involved malfunctioning engines. Capt. John J. Sax, USMC, was one of those aviators. In his honor, in 2023, the Sax family established
Steelers' Art Rooney II dismisses poor NFLPA report card results, labels survey as 'media opportunity'
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How Uman Was Inspired by Islamic Art and Rural New York Life
In upstate New York, “I’m surrounded by nature and animals,” Uman says, “so that comes out in my paintings: chicken feet, dogs, mouths and teeth.” In “When Rolfie Smiles My World Is Sunshine,” an abstract portrait of her dog, certain shapes recall a snout, a hill and twigs. Uman’s “When
At Tiffany’s Flagship, Luxe Art Helps Sell the Jewels
Now that tickets to the Museum of Modern Art are priced at an astonishing $30 apiece, you could be forgiven for timing your visits carefully, making sure that they count. So, let’s say you find yourself in Midtown Manhattan with an hour or two to spare, and you are yearning
For Richard Serra, Art Was Not Something. It Was Everything.
When Richard Serra died yesterday, I flashed back nearly 30 years to a morning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, looking with him and with his wife, the German-born art historian Clara Weyergraf, at Jackson Pollock’s splash and drip painting from 1950, “Autumn Rhythm.” We had decided to meet as
The Art of Babar
Like his father, Jean, Laurent de Brunhoff trained to be a painter. He studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse and began making and exhibiting abstract work in oils. But at 21, nine years after his father’s death, he decided to carry on the adventures of Babar,
‘Art Talent Show’: A Documentary Celebration and Sendup
Have you ever stood in an art gallery, contemplating a vacuum, wondering if it’s art or if the maintenance staff just forgot to put it away? I love this feeling. To me, art is supposed to leave us re-evaluating everything we think we know about the world. But it does