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In her new memoir, Fernanda Eberstadt reflects on her mother, the legendary Warholian beauty Isabel Eberstadt, and growing up at the factory.

 He’s spent his whole life waiting for luck, looking for signs of it with a kind of fatalism, and he supplements this fatalism with the best skills of a shrewd hunter and gatherer, picking up booty like me. —Bruce Benderson, The Romanian: Story of an ObsessionYOU COULD SAY, couldn’t you, that André Cadere’s métier was incompatibility?The incompatibility of the exile, of the emigrant?The incompatibility of border-crossing?Of trespassing?Of crashing the party?Incompatibility, even, wit...

Why Countercultural Arts Spaces Must be Preserved Legendary London arts venue, The Horse Hospital, nurtures a vital web of creative expression and disruptive ideas  Hidden down a cobbled backstreet behind the British Museum, a heavy wooden door opens onto a deep red passage that leads into a multidimensional, womb-like space. So many incredible events have been held at the Horse Hospital since it launched in 1993 that the past echoes around its walls: mods, rockers, punks a...