I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and. . . it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.
European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.
My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a seamless experience for people, whether they are up the road or on the other side of the world.
Schiaparelli’s collaborations with Dali and Cocteau as well as Prada’s Fondazione Prada push art and fashion ever closer, in a direct, synergistic, and culturally redefining relationship.
We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans. . . starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.
There's ten of us, we've been best friends for thirty years. Ten guys. And their wives, and their kids, are all family now. I'm not big on keeping up on the phone, none of us are. Some guys I won't talk to for two months and then you pick up the phone and hear, "So, anyway. " There's no guilt or where have you been? or what's been going on? or why haven't we talked? There's an ease to it.
My dad's supportive of all my endeavors.
Now, in this town, you have to putter over a thing, even the slightest, a month. The powers that evolved the cabbage apple-pie in the morning, and executed it in the evening, are here unknown quantities.