3,500 Courtroom Sketches by Marilyn Church Heading for Library of Congress

NEW YORK (AP).- Marilyn Church didn’t even have to ask Bernard Madoff, Martha Stewart, Woody Allen and John Gotti to sit for their portraits. She simply found a good seat in court and pulled out her pad — then got paid. Soon, the New York courtroom artist’s 3,500 sketches could be heading to the Library of Congress, which said Wednesday that it planned to acquire them and is finalizing agreements with Church. “It’s a great spectrum of all the things [...]

Frey Norris Offers Most Comprehensive Look at Dorothea Tanning’s Early Career

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Beyond the Esplanade surveys a fascinating period in the career of one of the most intriguing artists and writers of the last century. After extensive travel and living for some time in Sedona, Arizona and the Loire Valley in France, Dorothea Tanning now lives back in New York City, the same city where she came to prominence in 1942. That year Julien Levy, the gallerist who effectively introduced the United States to Surrealism, visited her studio. Levy [...]