Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction

Luminous and revealing, a daughter’s memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father.

In 1958, soon after Gabrielle Selz was born, she, her parents and her sister moved to New York, where her father, Peter Selz, would begin his job as the chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. What followed was a whirlwind childhood spent among art and artists in the heyday of Abstract Expressionism. Gabrielle grew up in a home full of the most celebrated artists of the da...