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Should I be embarrassed by the very fact I like Valentine’s Day? Probably? But I do. I like every little thing chocolate, I believe flowers are charming, I’ve nothing towards a pleasant glass of wine and I soften when my youngsters current me with do-it-yourself playing cards scribbled with their candy handwriting. If you welcome […] More

The Negroni, a robust Italian-born traditional with an enormous and dedicated fan membership, suits each season and most events. “It’s bitter, it’s candy, it feels prefer it has a little bit of salinity to it,” stated Isabel Tulloch, the top bartender at Milady’s in New York City. “There’s that lovely orange expression that makes it […] More

Remember the final time you bit right into a chocolate-covered strawberry? If the shell snapped audibly, pooling in your tongue because it melted, then likelihood is that chocolate was tempered. Tempering, basically melting and cooling chocolate, is why that skinny shell of chocolate yielding to a juicy berry cracks with such a crisp, satisfying sharpness. […] More

Ever since Chuck Close was accused of sexual harassment in 2017, the painter — who died 4 years later — has largely been sidelined by the artwork world, together with his work not often showing in solo museum and gallery reveals. But his longtime gallerist, Arne Glimcher, has at all times stood by Close, and […] More

Brazilian police investigating the homicide of Brent Sikkema, a outstanding New York artwork vendor who was discovered stabbed to dying final month in his Rio de Janeiro condo, are actually looking for the arrest of his husband, Daniel Sikkema. It was a surprising twist in a case that has captivated the artwork world. Brent Sikkema […] More

For romantics trying to show their ardour and devotion, the Love Bank in Slovakia has loads of room in its Love Vault the place 7,000 folks have already deposited their keepsakes and symbols of affection, whether or not reciprocated or unrequited. But this Valentine’s Day, the financial institution might be closed. Its medieval constructing, as […] More

Gladstone Gallery appears to be like like a conflict zone, the aftermath of a Call of Duty gaming session gone dangerous, the digital gunmen downing Red Bull and chain smoking over their keyboards, till a bomb got here by way of the roof. This is the tragicomic scene summoned in cardboard and packing tape by […] More

Later in life, the nice poet Walt Whitman recalled the occasions of the Fourth of July, 1825. At round 6 years outdated, he wrote, he attended the cornerstone laying ceremony of the Brooklyn Apprentices’ Library, which had been integrated a yr earlier. The man who later penned “Song of Myself” stated he was proud to […] More

New York City has added one other jewel to its glittering cultural crown, and it takes up little a couple of medium-size wall on the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You’ll discover the wall within the Belfer Court, the primary house on the correct as you enter the Greek and Roman Galleries from the Great Hall. […] More

It’s not each artwork set up that instructs guests to take small steps like a penguin. Then once more, there’s nothing fairly just like the Art Shanty Projects, through which intrepid Minnesota artists in insulated jumpsuits and ice cleats yearly recreate conventional ice fishing huts, known as shanties, in their very own eccentric type on […] More

When the Egyptian authorities launched a video final week describing plans to resurface the Pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of Giza’s three essential pyramids, with the granite blocks that when clad a part of its exterior, the preliminary response was swift — and harsh. Some archaeologists criticized the concept. An on-line remark that was extensively […] More

What would a basketball sport be like with out the ebb and circulation of two groups, with out the roar of the gang? Like Paul Pfeiffer’s movies. The multimedia artist, whose first profession survey within the United States is on view on the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) by means of June 16, […] More