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Zoe Kazan Gives Steinbeck’s Monster, Cathy Ames, a Childhood
Netflix’s seven-part East of Eden, written by Zoe Kazan and starring Florence Pugh, puts Cathy Ames at the…
A $30 Gertrude Abercrombie Just Sold for $1.35 Million
A small 1951 painting of ten shells, picked up at a Michigan estate sale this summer, set the…
Alison Knowles Made a Masterpiece Out of Lunch
The Fluxus artist Alison Knowles (1933–2025) turned a diner lunch, a salad and a computer printout into art.…
Ruth Asawa Was Not Forgotten
The American sculptor showed in three Whitney Annuals in the 1950s and was profiled in Time and Life,…
The Summer of Her Life
July 2026 in art, reviewed — and why, this season, the museums belong to women. By [Teona Abuladze]…
The Shape She Left Behind
Forty years after her death, Ana Mendieta presses her body back into the ground at Tate Modern —…