Vibing on Art and Artists’ Books

Gil Moshe Gentile got it just right in June 2013 when he asked Hannah Marie Mandel to meet him at “Jack Goldstein X 10,000,” a conceptual art exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. “He was an artist I really loved,” Mr. Gentile said. “It was her vibe, too.” When he had reached out to…

When Art and Music Collide

Adam Samuel Eaker was looking forward to an evening of music the night he met Brandon Patrick George in March 2019. Falling for the musician, though, was not meant to be part of the program. Dr. Eaker, an associate curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, had previously spent…

An Adventure in the Conventional

On their first date, at a New York restaurant in late February 2020, Jessica Rosenblum told Steve Young that he looked like a lot more fun in his photo, which was provided by an acquaintance who had set them up. He laughed, delighted by her “cutting” sense of humor. “I thought it was hilarious,” he…