Hits: 5 surfacing For a handful of cultures across the globe, the Arab world among them, these distinct blankets deliver not only an impossibly warm, soft hug but a great sense of belonging. By Maya Salam Photographs by Farah Al …
Finding Art Miles Away From the Expected
Hits: 6 About four years ago I followed an emailed invitation to an art gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, not entirely expecting to find curious, provocative, contemporary work in that neighborhood, but I did. Now I return regularly to find …
It’s Not Every Day We Get a New Blue
Hits: 2 Nautical, mystical and the de facto shade of several social networks, blue is a color that has deep cultural cachet, while being nearly impossible to find in nature. The blues that abound in nature — a butterfly, a …
Indigenous Beadwork Drops on Instagram
Hits: 3 Last year, after the museum that Tayler Gutierrez worked at in Salt Lake City closed temporarily because of the coronavirus, she turned to her beadwork. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Ms. Gutierrez, 24, had been …
Portraits of Nurses, By the Designer Rebecca Moses
Hits: 6 “There’s nothing fashionable — ever — about being in a hospital,” said Linda Valentino, the vice president and chief nursing officer at Mount Sinai Health System. But as of Dec. 1, Mount Sinai’s soaring 11-story Guggenheim Pavilion (designed …
How to Make a Chess Set
Hits: 10 Thanks to the success of the Netflix show “The Queen’s Gambit,” chess sets are flying off the shelves. If you can’t find one, or just want another pandemic crafting project, why not make your own at home? You …
9 Canadian Art Exhibits You Can Visit Virtually Right From Home
Hits: 5Art by Nathan Eugene Carson. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid/The Power PlantCanadian art venues like the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Power Plant and the Bata Shoe Museum are offering interactive online content and virtual tours. By Pahull Bains …
‘Bob Ross Experience’ Opens in Indiana, Happy Trees and All
Hits: 13 MUNCIE, Ind. — Lexi Vann was losing her race with Bob Ross. The 19-year-old from Carmel, Ind., sporting a bushy brown Bob wig that defied the stiff Halloween afternoon breeze, dipped her brush into a pool of purple …
The Improbable, Slightly Surreal Plan to Save Fashion’s Printed Matter
Hits: 7 The three men arrived at the front door of Steven Mark Klein’s sublet on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on June 29 in full personal protective equipment, ready to pack up his piles: the dusty Seussian towers …
Mark Bradford Reveals New Paintings Quarantined in a Grain Tower
Hits: 14 LOS ANGELES — “I’m adjusting to life on Mars,” says the artist Mark Bradford, as he folds his frame into a chair positioned a prudent nine feet from my own, and unpeels his mask from behind his ears. …