Robert Frank

The fall-winter 2012 menswear collections that showed during the recently wrapped New York Fashion Week brought the usual riffs on masculine archetypes. Rag & Bone and Tommy Hilfiger served up military men. Michael Kors went for plaid-clad lumberjack...

"I didn't bring you to Paris to make art; I brought you here to do the buttons and bows," Harper's Bazaar editor Carmel Snow famously snapped at photographer Lillian Bassman during a fashion shoot for the magazine in the late 1940s. But Bassman's fashion...

Gusmano Cesaretti's East L.A. Diary...

The Exacting Eye of Walker Evans Through Jan. 29, 2012, Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St., Old Lyme, (860) 434-5542   "Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long." So advised Walker Evans (1901-1975), who knew...

Untold Story A Novel Monica Ali Scribner: 259 pp., $25 Fairy tales are the Euclidian geometry of fiction. Reading them — and having them read to us — are the moments when we first divide reality. We teach our imagination to leap, hit the...

Concerned about teacher retaliation, local property values and their own standing in the community, numerous La Cañada Flintridge parents say they are reluctant to openly criticize practices in the La Cañada Unified School District. The issue —...

Via the WGN Morning Memo: Supermodel Linda Evangelista is asking French billionaire Francois Henri-Pinault for $46,000 a month in child support. The Wall Street Journal's Robert Frank tells Kelsey Hubbard how wealthy families in New York can spend up to.....

“Abstraction: The Art of Seeing,” an exhibition of photography from the Southeast, is on view at Crealdé School of Art through March 19. The exhibit includes works by Betty Scott Owen of Norfolk, Va.; and by Jon Manchester and Scott Sturgeon,....

Leah Ollman reviews street photography exhibition at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego....

One of the comments that cropped up consistently in my reporting for our story running in Saturday’s Business section on the Concord Music Group is that the people who run and work at the company are dyed-in-the-wool music fans, which......

Reading Rudolph Wurlitzer's novels is like watching a road movie backward. In his 1969 underground classic, "Nog," the narrator drifts across an amorphous terrain on which his shifting identity molds itself like soft clay. Rather than buttressing his...

When Alice Neel was under FBI investigation in the 1950s, her file described her as a “romantic Bohemian type Communist.� Far more revealing than the Red Scare classification was Neel’s purported interest in having the agents who interviewed her...