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Phyllis Pressman, the matriarch of the household that based Barneys New York, the low cost males’s put on retailer turned luxurious emporium — and the creator of Chelsea Passage, the shop’s dwelling items bazaar, a pivot level in its evolution from a go well with service provider to an elite life-style behemoth — died on […] More

It appeared like a corgi conference. On Sunday afternoon in Oakham, a quaint English market city, lots of of native residents stood behind a short lived barrier and craned their necks to see the 50 or so canines waddling previous within the native library’s gardens. The yapping mutts have been only a sideshow, nevertheless, to […] More

In the Where to Eat: 25 Best sequence, we’re highlighting our favourite eating places in cities throughout the United States. These lists might be up to date as eating places shut and open, and as we discover new gems to advocate. As all the time, we pay for all of our meals and don’t settle […] More

Good morning. It’s been almost a decade because the designer Steven Stolman taught me to make his rooster Provençal (above), and I’ve made it one gajillion occasions since (roughly). It’s a staple for dinner events and Sunday suppers in my home — an excuse to iron napkins and use the plates we inherited from my […] More

In the Where to Eat: 25 Best sequence, we’re highlighting our favourite eating places in cities throughout the United States. These lists might be up to date as eating places shut and open, and as we discover new gems to advocate. As at all times, we pay for all of our meals and don’t settle […] More

In April 1992, simply earlier than Sejla Kameric turned 16, her hometown, Sarajevo, got here below siege for nearly 4 years. The struggle in Bosnia, by which her father and two uncles have been killed, forged a shadow on Kameric, a multimedia artist who has examined struggle, peace, belonging and otherness in her oeuvre during […] More

There is a fascinating little rhyme tucked into the title of the artist Erick Meyenberg’s piece for this yr’s Venice Biennale — “Nos marchábamos, regresábamos siempre” — however the cadence doesn’t convert neatly into English. “It is gorgeous in Spanish, and it really works in a really poetic means,” stated Meyenberg, who will signify his […] More

At the architect Philip Johnson’s former property in New Canaan, Conn., there has lengthy been a Glass House and a Brick House. Now there’s additionally a Paper House. The Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s Paper Log House, to be actual. An exhibition of this straightforward, low-cost construction — designed in 1995 to accommodate victims […] More

Bangkok, known as the Venice of the East by European missionaries and sailors who fell underneath town’s spell centuries in the past, will have a good time its fourth biennale this fall, however not earlier than utilizing the sixtieth Venice Biennale to showcase itself as that different metropolis of canals, tradition and artwork. “The Spirits […] More

For the painter Julie Mehretu, whose works are at present on show on the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, a solo retrospective held little attraction. Instead, she selected to incorporate different artists from a variety of disciplines. “Collective research is one thing I’ve been fascinated by for a very long time,” she stated by cellphone from […] More

1977 The “Biennale of Dissent” highlighted artists from the Soviet Union and different Communist bloc international locations, akin to Czechoslovakia, showcasing Soviet artwork, theater and movie made by dissidents at residence and overseas. The artwork exhibition, “New Art From the Soviet Union. an Unofficial Perspective,” featured some 300 works by 70 Soviet artists who weren’t […] More

Did a conspiracy by U.S. State Department officers and artwork sellers safe a prize for portray for Robert Rauschenberg on the Venice Biennale in 1964? Unconfirmed rumors of some form of nefarious plot to that impact swirled in worldwide artwork circles for years. The documentary filmmaker Amei Wallach had heard them, and he or she […] More