Gertrude Stein

...from the English playwright William Shakespeare, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the great American expatriate writer Gertrude Stein. Two sides of the story Marti held the jurors attention with a large screen that displayed...

In this article: Tom Petters and William Shakespeare

One of my favorites, Ray Frank, the "girl rabbi," led services and lectured on Jewish topics throughout the Bay Area. Gertrude Stein of Oakland gained world renown, and muralist Bernard Zakheim's images adorn Coit Tower. Along with the...

In this article: San Francisco, Julius Kahn, Isaac Stern, and Yehudi Menuhin

...Duchamp. Just at this time the sensational 1913 New York Armory Show, with works by Picasso, Matisse, Picabia, Duchamp and Gertrude Stein, opened and boom! Everything changed. Avant garde art had officially arrived in America. My main...

In this article: Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Lotte Jacobi, Marcel Proust, Alfred Stieglitz, New York, Beatrice Wood, Catholic Church, Mina Loy, and Pablo Picasso

...IN PARIS: LIFE AND DEATH UNDER NAZI OCCUPATION" Nearly 30,000 Americans lived in or near Paris before the war, including Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Josephine Baker. When war broke out in September 1939, at least 5,000...

In this article: Paris, Charles Glass, Sylvia Beach, World War II, Shakespeare & Company, and Alice B. Toklas

...those honored here are Meredith Monk, Simone de Beauvoir, Frida Kahlo, Madame Blavatsky, Isadora Duncan, Helene Cixous, Gertrude Stein, Abe Sada, Sylvia Plath, Louise Bourgeois, Margaret Mead, Loie Fuller, Dorothy Parker, Yoko Ono and the...

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...he was a master dabbler in Dada, then Surrealism. Later, he took up photography and shot the boldface names of his time -- Gertrude Stein (alongside the portrait Picasso painted of her), Jean Cocteau, even a young Ernest Hemingway. He was a...

In this article: Man Ray, Ernest Hemingway, Marcel Duchamp, Jewish Museum, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, American Masters, and Indestructible Object

...members of the American expat community (Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein). In the mid-1920s, Ray came up with his "rayographs," photos that he manipulated with exposed light in...

In this article: Wes Anderson, Man Ray, The Daily Beast, New York, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Wolfgang's Vault, and New York Press

Tuesday, November 10th 2009 at 3:34pm A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, Gertrude Stein insisted, but a lily is something else entirely, particularly when embodied by Taylor Mac in shredded, spangly green tights and immoderate makeup.

The book is set in Paris in the 1920s and features Hemingway and his friends, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, and other members of what has been called The Lost Generation. There s food and drink all the...

In this article: Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, Paris, Paradise Lost, Ezra Pound, John Milton, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and F. Scott Fitzgerald

In college, Mr. Cronkite cut his journalistic teeth at The Daily Texan, the student paper, chasing interviews with the likes of Gertrude Stein while developing a fondness for pipe-smoking. With Mr. Cronkite's blessing, archivists at the...

In this article: Walter Cronkite, University of Texas at Austin, Alice B. Toklas, NASA, and Texas