Fall has arrived… Behold the changing leaves, and enjoy the crisp breeze. Let your eyes take in the bursts of color. Transformation is afoot and hope is in the air…

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618-1682): Beggar Boys Eating Grapes and Melon, c. 1650 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter… Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children… These lively,…

Helmut Newton Self-Portrait with Wife and Models, Vogue Studio Paris 1981 - Courtesy of the Helmut Newton Estate

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903): Jalais Hill, Pointoise (1867) “This little valley, this hill have a heroic simplicity and forthrightness. Nothing would be more banal were it not so grand…” Émile Zola wrote of the manner in which Pissarro handled his rural subject matter… Indeed, the positive reception…

Natalie Dormer …need not fret about her allure… Hers is a startling beauty, sloe-eyed and curvy-lipped. Her voice is musical, posh without being pretentious… (photographed by Jim Wright for the NY Post)

Marc Chagall (1887-1985): I and the Village, 1911 This early work clearly shows both the Cubist and Fauvist influences at play in Chagall's canvas, yet unlike the works of Picasso or Matisse, Chagall is far more playful and liberal with decorative elements, creating a pastoral paradise out of the…

André Kertész, a master photographer of the twentieth century, was a pioneer in photographic composition and photojournalism who gained critical acclaim for his image distortions. Born in Hungary, he moved from Paris to New York during World War II. In 1963, he returned to Paris… André Kertész:…

Physicists say we are made of stardust… Intergalactic debris and far-flung atoms, shards of carbon nanomatter rounded up by gravity to circle the sun. As atoms pass through an eternal revolving door of possible form, energy and mass dance in fluid relationship. We are man, we are thought, we are…

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944): Houses on the Gein (1900) is a good instance of Mondrian's manner and ideas around 1900, when he was twenty-eight and had just started painting landscapes in the surroundings of Amsterdam… Typical of the early Mondrian is the loose brush stroke, giving the impression of a…

Ballet is hard! You do tons of combinations that the teacher designs to kill you and she yells at you the whole time about what your doing wrong and you want more then anything to please her and her to say good job so you try and try and try but your body just won't do it and thats just bar. At the…

Claude Monet (1840-1926): Bordighera, Italy, 1884 I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying.…

Joaquim Mir i Trinxet (or Joaquin Mir, 1873-1940): Canyelles Joaquin Mir was a Catalan painter… Mir Trinxet painted landscapes in Tarragona and Majorca - perhaps his best known works - and certainly the ones that contributed most to create the myth of the artist that merged with nature and lost…

For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship… Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas… Jemma Baines (by David Roemer for Grazia France August 2013)

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker and draftsman associated with the Impressionist movement. Although he is regarded as one of the movement’s founders, he rejected the label and preferred to be thought of as a realist. Unlike Impressionist painters, he was not as…

Lauren Lovette as the Mermaid in Wheeldon’s Carnival of the Animals. New York City Ballet, October 2013 (Photo: Paul Kolnik) New York City Ballet is one of the foremost dance companies in the world, with a roster of nearly 100 spectacular dancers and an unparalleled repertory featuring works by…