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People in Venice may hear the jingle gown dancers earlier than they see them. On April 18, some 26 intertribal Native American dancers and singers from Oklahoma and Colorado will make their means by way of the winding streets and canals of the Italian metropolis. Wearing brightly coloured shawls, beaded yokes and clothes adorned with […] More

My relationship with bananas can greatest be described by paraphrasing Katy Perry’s 2008 tune: We’re sizzling then we’re chilly, we’re sure then we’re no, we’re in then we’re out, we’re up then we’re down. I’ll carry residence a Donkey Kong-size haul of them on a Sunday, craving their starchy sweetness. On Monday and Tuesday I’ll […] More

Diptych, dyad, dialectic: The relationship between the primary pair of buildings Philip Johnson designed for his property in New Canaan, Conn., has taxed the metaphorical imaginations of critics and architectural historians for the reason that buildings have been accomplished, simply months aside, in 1949. On one aspect, the Glass House, clear and completely self-possessed, a […] More

People in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest metropolis, are hardly shy. The stereotype runs towards boisterousness, worn as a degree of satisfaction. But when the artist and poet Precious Okoyomon recorded interviews with some 60 metropolis residents in January for an artwork challenge, the bizarre questions — like “Who was accountable for the struggling of your mom?” […] More

On a latest afternoon, the kitchen inside a Denny’s within the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens was bustling. Employees positioned burger patties on a grill and pulled fries out of the vat of scorching oil. Some orders have been whisked away to clients sitting in cubicles, whereas others have been boxed and put aside for […] More

A&A Bake & Doubles Shop, Bedford-Stuyvesant When I lived in Bed-Stuy within the 2010s, I’d line up there early, as a result of the star attraction was bought out by 9 a.m. That could be the doubles — elegant, each time. The baras are extra chewy than crisp, however that’s all the higher to carry […] More

Good morning. I’m telling you to make your personal pasta this weekend and I perceive that, for some, the command will result in rolled eyes, to sighs and protestations. Fresh pasta looks like such a ache. But it isn’t. Melissa Clark’s recipe, which mixes flour, eggs, egg yolks and just a little olive oil right […] More

Even in the event you’re not a giant drinker, it’s price taking the time to arrange a house bar. Why? “It reveals that you just care about individuals having a great time,” mentioned Jessica Schuster, 38, an inside designer primarily based in New York City. “I’m not an enormous drinker myself, however I like to […] More

I discovered it whereas strolling by the home-goods part of T.J. Maxx, the American retail equal of the Garden of Earthly Delights, at 8:00 on a Tuesday evening in 2015. It was two days after Easter, and on this Hieronymus Bosch land of procuring anarchy, the cabinets had been stocked with pastel-colored objects of unsure […] More

After guiding The Africa Center via rocky pandemic years and securing an enormous chunk of funding for a significant development venture, the chief of the Harlem establishment is stepping down. Uzodinma Iweala, who’s in his seventh 12 months as chief govt of the Africa Center, will depart on the finish of 2024. Iweala’s management helped […] More

The Met’s pleasant present “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance” illuminates a curious pattern in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century portray: the sluggish reveal. The works on view, initially hid in particular instances and behind sliding or reversible panels, gamify the expertise of portraiture; they need to be moved, earlier than they’ll transfer us. Of course, […] More

Martha Diamond, who died in December, at age 79, was remarkably constant in her material — specifically New York structure — however terribly wide-ranging with what a portray of a constructing may signify. In a number of the works displayed in her first present on the David Kordansky Gallery, “Martha Diamond: Skin of the City,” […] More