Cassandra Langer

Published in: September-October 2024 issue. BRILLIANT EXILES American Women in Paris, 1900-1939 National Portrait Gallery Catalog edited by Robin Asleson Yale Univ. Press. 288 pages, $55.80 THE SMITHSONIAN’S National Portrait Gallery has forged new paths in scholarship and history with its exhibition Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939, which is showing there until next February (after which it travels to Georgia).

Linus Borgo: Monstrum Yossi Milo Gallery Nov. 30, 2023-Feb. 2, 2024 Visceral and shocking to many, Linus Borgo’s first solo show, Monstrum, at Yossi Milo Gallery on Tenth Avenue in the trendy, Chelsea art district of NYC, seeks to awaken and educate viewers on what one is willing to sacrifice to feel at home in their body.

Published in: March-April 2024 issue. IDEAL BEAUTY The Life and Times of Greta Garbo by Lois W. Banner Rutgers Univ. Press. 286 pages, $34.95 CELEBRITIES who retreat from the public eye become all the more intriguing because of their aura of inaccessibility. Greta Garbo retired from the screen at 35 and led a secluded life until she died in 1990. She made 28 movies in her career and acquired the status of Hollywood royalty.