For my family, reading Scarry together was itself like a car trip — the rare sort where no one gets cranky and the world, as seen from the back seat, is fresh and startling. From “Richard Scarry’s ...

Richard Scarry demonstrated his inimitable imagination, artistic acumen, and fascination with myriad modes of transport in 1974’s Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go. On January 2, ...

3 p.m.—I walk over to the Landhaus Hotel across the street to pick up Zhana Ivanova, a Bulgarian performance artist, to bring her to her site at the Alpina Hotel lobby in Gstaad and discuss her piece ...