Maggie Lange
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With ‘Paper Doll,’ Dylan Mulvaney Wrote the Book on Girlhood. Now What?
Her bubbly video diaries about her gender transition were once a study in oversharing. Now on the other side of a nationwide boycott, she sees...
Sarah Hoover Dishes on Her Life with Tom Sachs in a New Memoir
In a new memoir, Sarah Hoover grapples with the uglier moments that she and her husband, the artist Tom Sachs, have faced while navigating parenthood.
For Sale: 12 Dynamic Sketches From the Woman Who Dressed Hollywood
Can you put a price on showbiz history? Bidders will try on Thursday, when a dozen sketches by the legendary costume designer Edith Head go...
Fran Lebowitz and John Waters Welcome Back Peter Hujar’s ‘Portraits in Life and Death’
John Waters, Fran Lebowitz and other friends of the photographer, who died in 1987, remember an artist impatient for the recognition he’s only recently begun...
The Marie Laurencin Exhibition Making the Case for Art Without Men
Loved in her day, the French painter Marie Laurencin depicted a dreamy vision of a world of women. What does she have to say to...
7 Queer Icons From the Ancient World They Don’t Teach in School
When an Irish poet and an English illustrator set out to dust off Greco-Roman tales with homoerotic undertones, they were not hard up for options...
A Poet’s View of the Met From Behind the Information Desk
On and off throughout the 1990s, the poet Robyn Schiff fielded questions — many bathroom-related — as part of her job working the museum’s famous...
Furby Has a New Look. Some Fans Are Not Thrilled.
The animatronic toy’s makeover is getting mixed reviews.
The Home Cook Who Wants to ‘Blow Up the Kitchen’
A new book by the British academic Rebecca May Johnson urges a radical rethinking of just what goes on in the kitchen. For starters, don’t...
‘Dykes to Watch Out For,’ Now Holding Forth in Your Headphones
The long-running comic strip by Alison Bechdel, the creator of “Fun Home,” first held up a mirror to its queer readership in 1983. So what...