Stein's

Finally, economists retreat here to the one law on which they all agree, namely, Stein's Law, named for the late economist Herbert Stein: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."

NYT > Home Page By UWE E. REINHARDT 2012

Though acquired for a pittance at the turn of the century, Stein's modernist collection had become valuable -- the loaning out of it alone should have supported Toklas.

Adrian Margaret Brune: Marriage Debate Revives Lesbian Art Adrian Margaret Brune 2011

Perhaps the biggest impediment to appreciating all aspects of "Cosmic Numbers" is Mr. Stein's background as a mathematician.

Our Constant Companions Brian Clegg 2011

Inevitably, Mr. Stein's attention turns to the life and work of the first great theorist of gravitation, Isaac Newton.

Our Constant Companions Brian Clegg 2011

Which is why the slew of digits discussed in James D. Stein's "Cosmic Numbers" are so important.

Our Constant Companions Brian Clegg 2011

"Morning Glory" is a portrait of a flat, sexually frustrated Alice staring off canvas while Gertrude lovingly dotes on her poodle Basket; "Pleasing Papa" features a leering Ernest Hemingway -- a protégé-turned-adversary of Stein's -- flanked by both women at a bar with Gertrude in drag; and "Alice at Loggerheads" is another portrait of a vexed Alice, drinking, contemplating and snuffing her cigarettes into an upturned seashell, a traditional symbol of fertility.

Adrian Margaret Brune: Marriage Debate Revives Lesbian Art Adrian Margaret Brune 2011

There's also, here, the cheek, the wit of her retake on Stein's rose, since for sure Stein knows that a rose means more than just a rose.

Tracey Emin: 'What you see is what I am' 2011

"Morning Glory" is a portrait of a flat, sexually frustrated Alice staring off canvas while Gertrude lovingly dotes on her poodle Basket; "Pleasing Papa" features a leering Ernest Hemingway -- a protégé-turned-adversary of Stein's -- flanked by both women at a bar with Gertrude in drag; and "Alice at Loggerheads" is another portrait of a vexed Alice, drinking, contemplating and snuffing her cigarettes into an upturned seashell, a traditional symbol of fertility.

Adrian Margaret Brune: Marriage Debate Revives Lesbian Art Adrian Margaret Brune 2011

The focus on strangeness; the understanding that something strange introduced into the structure of things renews things: Stein's isn't a bad lens through which to see Emin's own practice.

Tracey Emin: 'What you see is what I am' 2011

Though acquired for a pittance at the turn of the century, Stein's modernist collection had become valuable -- the loaning out of it alone should have supported Toklas.

Adrian Margaret Brune: Marriage Debate Revives Lesbian Art Adrian Margaret Brune 2011