Art
Objects that Help Tell the Story of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas’s Romance
The 40-year relationship that unfolded between Toklas and Stein became the bedrock of Paris’s artistic avant-garde.
Gertrude Stein
Art
The Only Five Public Statues of Historic Women in NYC
Setting aside the allegorical females and fictional heroines like Lewis Carroll's Alice, who are the historic women honored in New York's public statuary?
Art
Street Art Subversion Goes Retro in Paris
PARIS — The City of Light is rightly recognized as an interesting place for street art, especially in the Right Bank's scruffier neighborhoods, where I am used to seeing plenty of it.
Art
Gertrude Stein All the Time, Time, Time, and Time
If you are going to read Gertrude Stein’s titanic novel The Making of Americans — the Dalkey paperback is a little over 900 pages long — why not spare your eyes and have someone read it to you? This past weekend, the magazine Triple Canopy offered to do just that.
Opinion
An Idiot's Guide to the Steins
A YouTube video narrated by the Metropolitan Museum's associate curator Rebecca Rabinow gives us a quick primer on the Steins, starring Gertrude and Leo. Rabinow tells us the takeaway on one of art history's greatest collecting families.