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The dusting of charcoal nonetheless on her fingers hinted that the Kenyan British artist Phoebe Boswell had simply completed placing the ultimate touches on the timber she had created within the entry hallway of the London outpost of Ghana’s Gallery 1957. With the present “Constellations, Part 1: Figures on Earth & Beyond” set to open […] More

One morning in late February, inside an enormous storage facility in London, the painter Louise Giovanelli glanced over half a dozen of her works as they had been crated up for a solo present on the White Cube gallery in Hong Kong. The outsize canvases pictured movie stars with their eyes closed and their mouths […] More

On a current springlike afternoon within the Hannam-dong neighborhood, amid the embassies and artwork galleries that stretch alongside the hilly streets close to the Han River, the Korean artist Heemin Chung had a couple of ideas a couple of moist marigold. “As an artist, I attempt to reimagine objects or surroundings, and I encountered this […] More

I’m not a humanist, I’m a creaturist. Have been since childhood. The pyramidal view of the world that I grew up with — Man because the crown of creation, with all different animals, four-legged, feathered and scaled, ranked and devalued downward — has by no means made sense. Hierarchies in artwork, with portray and sculpture […] More

I’m not one for spring cleansing, however I’m one for spring cooking, throwing open the home windows and airing out these stewy winter cooking habits. Whether I’m loading a skillet with the whole lot inexperienced (like this herb-laden rooster dinner) or cranking up the grill on the primary 60-degree day (hi there, flank steak), I’m […] More

Headliner Bungalow The chef and cookbook creator Vikas Khanna, whose New York debut a few years in the past was on the Michelin-starred Junoon, now has a spot to name his personal right here. He and his enterprise companion, Jimmy Rizvi, who owns GupShup and different eating places, settled on the East Village. “The house […] More

The newest hefty quantity quarried by the group at Modernist Cuisine, the analysis kitchen, pictures studio and cookbook writer based by Nathan Myhrvold, is “Modernist Bread at Home.” It’s a follow-up for nonprofessionals to “Modernist Bread,” revealed seven years in the past. Lavishly photographed with step-by-step directions for lots of of breadstuffs, it contains scientific […] More

As Giovanni Botta and Amanda Pinegar started planning their renovation of the home they purchased in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, they knew one factor for positive: The kitchen must be pink. “We had already selected the fridge, which is pink,” stated Ms. Pinegar, 44, a ceramic artist. “And we needed a kitchen that might improve that.” […] More

“Buy, purchase, purchase,” a bargoer shouted simply after 6:30 on a current Wednesday night. He grabbed two shot glasses, vodka sluicing over his arms. The 411, a pub in London, often sells about £3,000 value of drinks (about $3,800) on a weeknight. But on one other current Wednesday, it introduced in £18,300 — greater than […] More

Jitendra V. Singh was almost 60, a professor on the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, when he lastly purchased his first woodblock print by the revered Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, whose work from the Edo nineteenth century features a masterly collection, “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.” It was 2013, and Dr. Singh was […] More

If you’ve spent a current summer time in Britain, the place the mercury can now climb previous 100 levels, you’ve in all probability observed how inhospitable the buildings are in sizzling climate. And good luck discovering air con, which solely accelerates local weather change, in any case. And but the rules of “tropical modernism,” a […] More

In the pre-dawn hours of March 18, 1990, following a festive St. Patrick’s Day in Boston, two males dressed as cops walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and walked off with an estimated $500 million in artwork treasures. Despite efforts by the native police, federal brokers, beginner sleuths and never a number of journalists, […] More