Month: March 2013

Ballet Austin
Art, Dance, entertainment

Ballet Austin

Ballet Austin is one of the largest classical ballet academies in the country. The Texas company is growing rapidly and performing all over the country and in venues around the world. They have moved into a repurposed 34,000 square-foot facility, the Butler Dance Education Center and Community School in the […]

Master & Servant
entertainment, Travel

Master & Servant

Master & Servant London’s hottest new restaurant, has opened in Hoxton Square, in the city’s up-and-coming Shoreditch area. The brain-child of Matt Edwards, previously of the St John Hotel and Hix,  M&S was designed by Mhairi Coyle Design. The restaurant serves up Manhattan sophistication with British panache. Specialties include seasonal […]

Salvador Dali:  The Making of an Artist by Catherine Grenier
Art, Art Shows, Books

Salvador Dali: The Making of an Artist by Catherine Grenier

Salvador Dali: The Making of an Artist by Catherine Grenier (Flammarion: $75). This incisive book reveals the complex man behind the mustache, exploring his important role as one of the fathers of Surrealism, and in the evolution of 20th century art. Grenier’s book examines his work, his muses, his influences—and […]

Art, Books

Francis Bacon Five Decades edited by Anthony Bond

Francis Bacon Five Decades edited by Anthony Bond (Prestel: $65). Disturbing, compelling, important, this book examines the work of this controversial British artist decade-by-decade, providing insights into the strange world of his personal life and his dark and his unique artistic vision. This new book demonstrates why, like him or […]

Everyday Roses by Paul Zimmerman
Art, Books, entertainment

Everyday Roses by Paul Zimmerman

Everyday Roses by Paul Zimmerman (Taunton Press, $22.95). Noted rose-grower and breeder Paul Zimmerman de-mystifies the many new breeds of shrubs and climbers that are proliferating across the county, with expert advice on what to buy, how to grow and how to use these new roses in the landscape.

Painting and Photography: 1839-1914 by Dominique De Font-Réaulx
Art, Books

Painting and Photography: 1839-1914 by Dominique De Font-Réaulx

Painting and Photography: 1839-1914 by Dominique De Font-Réaulx (Fammarion: $75). This new book examines the beginnings and evolution of the art of photography, its relation to classical painting, and the many controversies the new form engendered. Many genres, including landscapes and portraits, still lifes and nudes, are compared and contrasted […]