Madame X…?

from artnet How John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’ Turned Paris High Society Upside Down John Singer Sargent’s most iconic portrait ‘Madame X’ is the star of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s forthcoming exhibition ‘Sargent and Paris.’...

Mary X…?

from The New Yorker Mistaking Mary Magdalene The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith. By Eliza Griswold An ancient depiction of a naked woman hung on...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Gatsby @ 100

from AIR MAIL One Hundred Years of Gatsby Editions of The Great Gatsby—which achieved popularity only after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s death—abound, but the mysteries surrounding the Great American Novel endure BY NATHAN KING Robert Redford and Mia Farrow in the 1974...