'Scrapbooks' pieces together Americans' history Nov 16, 2008
Past scrapbookers include Lillian Hellman, Zelda Fitzgerald, Saul Steinberg, and Anne Sexton, who included in her scrapbook not just her first efforts at verse but the key from the motel room where she and her husband spent their wedding night. "Scrapbook-making volunteers" put together memory books for military personnel serving overseas during both world wars. (Boston Globe)
The end of an era on Wall Street? Oct 5, 2008
In 1989, tongues wagged when the 50th birthday celebration for the financier Saul Steinberg featured live models posing as Old Masters paintings. That bash was outdone last year, when Stephen Schwarzman, head of the private equity firm Blackstone, feted guests at a 60th birthday party boasting an estimated price tag of $5 million, video tributes and the singer Rod Stewart. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Zurich exhibition illuminates Saul Steinberg Sep 11, 2008
Image caption: Untitled (Pineapple), around 1970, The Saul Steinberg Foundation, New York ( The Saul Steinberg Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS)/ProLitteris, Zurich) ... Saul Steinberg's drawings for The New Yorker magazine have become legendary ... Both Steinberg's magazine art and his work for galleries are displayed at the show, whose European tour Zurich is the second stop - has been organised with the help of The Saul Steinberg Foundation in New York. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
David Denby: “I Served the King of England” and “Traitor.” Aug 25, 2008
Saul Steinberg in Switzerland, and more events involving New Yorker contributors. 00004000. (New Yorker)
“Sterne and Steinberg: Critics Within” featured at The Menil Collection Jun 3, 2008
"Hedda Sterne and Saul Steinberg." Circa 1944-45 ... Sterne and Steinberg: Critics Within, a splendid exhibition of approximately 40 art works by Hedda Sterne and Saul Steinberg, can be seen at the Menil through Aug. 17. (Woodlands Villager, TX)
Action Figures May 20, 2008
Saul Steinberg in Paris, and more events involving New Yorker contributors. newsletter sign-up. (New Yorker)
100 Years Of Luxury Dec 17, 2007
It was Mr. Stanley who came up with the idea of those extravagant Christmas gifts, and who commissioned famous artists like Saul Steinberg and Robert Indiana to design Christmas catalogue covers. The in-store celebrations he staged drew celebrities like Sophia Loren, Princess Grace and Princess Margaret. (CBS News)
Renoir's Busty Model, New Yorker Drawings, Louvre Pictures Head to London Nov 22, 2007
Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Renoir's picture of a busty theatergoer, Saul Steinberg's drawings for the New Yorker, and 18th-century masterpieces from the Louvre are highlights of exhibitions at three of London's smaller museums next year ... The Dulwich will hold the first major overview of the U.S. artist whose work graced New Yorker covers for six decades (``Saul Steinberg: Illuminating the New Yorker,'' Nov. 26, 2008 - Feb. 15, 2009. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Illuminating images, words, wit and genius (Joanna Shaw-Eagle) May 5, 2007
Cartoonist Saul Steinberg, subject of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's traveling "Saul Steinberg: Illuminations," tickled America's funny bone from the 1930s until his death in 1999 at age 84 ... (About half of them are from the Saul Steinberg Foundation in New York City. (Washington Times)
Deaf, illiterate and self-trained, and with a perspective all his own Mar 25, 2007
Many of the drawings describe interiors and outdoor views, some quite plausibly accurate, others incorporating strange totemic forms or personages that recall some of the stiffest performances of Saul Steinberg (1914-1999). With no knowledge of conventional art materials, Castle devised his own. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Wine And Art Meet At Mouton Estate Mar 19, 2007
Painters like Andre Masson, Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall and Joan Miro sculptors like Henry Moore and Richard Lippold and even illustrator Saul Steinberg and pop artist Andy Warhol have created art for the bottle. "Andy Warhol didn't just do what he's told. which is normal for Andy," de Rothschild said. (CBS News)
Schwarzman Fest Could Bode Ill Feb 18, 2007
The 50th birthday shindig for financier Saul Steinberg back in August '89 is the standard against which other larger-than-life fetes are measured - with live models posing as subjects of Steinberg's favorite Old Masters. Steinberg at least had the foresight to toast: "Honey, if this moment were a stock, I'd short it.". (New York Post -- Business)
Martin Ramirez: An outsider in step with insider artists Jan 31, 2007
He belongs to the group of accessible, irresistible genius draftsmen that includes Paul Klee, Saul Steinberg and Charles Schulz. Well-selected and beautifully installed by Brooke Davis Anderson, a curator at the folk art museum, this show of 97 drawings, some mural-size, is the first museum exhibition of Ram. (International Herald Tribune)
Mystery Train Jan 23, 2007
Paul Klee and Saul Steinberg, among other modern artists, come to mind, but Ram;rez s command of pictorial construction, a kind of strictly paced visual music, is all his own. Technically, most of Ram;rez s drawings aren t drawings at all but encaustic-like paintings, done in a fluid paste of melted wax crayons, at times augmented with charcoal, fruit juices, shoe polish, and saliva. (New Yorker)
