Remembering a Woman of Very Original Tastes
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Madeleine Castaing, the Paris interior designer, died in 1992, but her influence continues: she is currently the subject of a film, a biography and an art show.
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Famed soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, a 20th century legend who won global acclaim for her renditions of Mozart and Strauss, died Thursday at her home in western Austria, state television reported. She was 90.
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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born soprano, was a genuine celebrity and an invaluable advocate for the fine arts.
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The richly evocative exhibit of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis's work at the Jewish Museum breathes life into the icon and gives her own work well-deserved attention.
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Remember when women had faces with recognizable features? You almost have to strain to recall after a couple of days of Parisian fashion shows
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Her husbandsâ music is what made them unforgettable. But her side of the story, for all its slick packaging and hopeless platitudes, is worth hearing too.
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Ms. Varnay never achieved widespread public recognition, but to opera buffs and insiders, she brought distinctive qualities to her work.
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Rose Bampton, a soprano who was a New York Metropolitan Opera mainstay during the 1930s and 1940s, has died. She was 99.
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Life & style: How healthy can something be with eight teaspoons of sugar in it? Emine Saner on flavoured water.
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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78. It had been revealed just last month that Sills was gravely ill with inoperable lung cancer. She died about 9 p.m. Monday, said her manager, Edgar Vincent.
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The wife of Viktor Yushchenko, the Ukrainian opposition leader whose face was badly disfigured by a mystery illness during the recent election campaign, said yesterday she tasted
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A venerable cooking magazine creates a book that is encyclopedic yet enticing
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I knew the only fitting celebration of her long life and peaceful death would be a weekend of buttery, creamy, vermouthy excess. Potato leek soup, the first recipe in the first book she ever wrote (with considerable assistance from Simone ...
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The latest act by the 33-year-old curator has catapulted her into artâs tastemaking elite.
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In this trendy world, a French restaurant with a classic repertoire is a treasure.
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She is sultry, sensuous, and 'Oh-so-hot'. And can even get spooky at timesÂ
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The death this month, at 94, of Alicia Markova, the magical woman who inspired the two greatest geniuses of 20th-century ballet , George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, capped a year of a particularly ...