Laura Mattioli.
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For art historian Laura Mattioli, a career in anything other than art was always out of the question. Although she was originally interested in physics, her father, Gianni Mattioli, was one of the most influential 20th-century collectors of Italian modern art. As a result, Laura was trained in art history by a family friend.
You probably know already that itâs where Sid killed Nancy, and Dylan Thomas drank himself to death. Hotel Chelsea in New York is a gothic icon of old New York, and its remodelling from infamous bohemian dive into boutique hotel has become a saga as epic as any in its 137-year history. Legal wrangling between its owners, city officials and 48 long-term tenants has seen the hotel closed to guests for 10 years, but a court case this month gave the green light for the refurbishment to continue.
For over a century the Hotel Chelsea embodied a unique downtown experience. I remember the first time I visited it in the 1980s. Iâd seen so much footage of its wrought-iron balconies and weathered white and red neon signage that turning the corner from 8th Avenue on to West 23rd Street felt like my first time in front of a muchreplicated piece of pop art.
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Patricia Highsmith, who was born 100 years ago this month, was already known as a giant of suspense fiction at her death in 1995. Since then, while the stock of some of her literary contemporaries has gone down (think of Saul Bellow, Gore Vidal, or Norman Mailer), her reputation as a writer of serious artistic and philosophical achievement has increased. The 21st century – when imposture is at the heart of online life, when self-identification precedes authenticity – seems more and more like the age of Tom Ripley, Highsmith’s greatest creation.
Less well known, however, is that the final publication Highsmith oversaw was not about murder or secrecy or guilt, but about drawing. In perhaps the last piece of writing that she ever completed, the foreword published in German in
“The Violinist,” 1947, by Tony Vaccaro. Courtesy of Monroe Gallery
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Tony Vaccaro reigns as one of the few people to have battled both COVID-19 and the beaches of Normandy.
The photographer will celebrate his 98th birthday with a virtual show at Santa Fe’s Monroe Gallery of Photography through Jan. 17, at monroegallery.com.
Vaccaro contracted Covid early in the pandemic – in April. He spent two days in the hospital.
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“He couldn’t walk from room to room,” his daughter-in-law Maria said in a telephone interview from their home in Long Island City, New York. “He just stopped eating and had no energy.”