The Disability Futures initiative, a fellowship established by the Ford and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations last fall to support disabled artists, is expanding. The foundations announced on Friday that they will commit an additional $5 million to support the initiative through 2025, which will include support for two more cohorts of 20 fellows. The fellowship,…
“We fell in love with Vermont,” she said, and at first they saw each other every two or three weeks, but when she got a car, they took turns driving each weekend. In 2016, after each graduated, she cum laude, they got an apartment together on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Mr. Lakhanpal, now…
In Colombia, where the food stylist Mariana Velásquez grew up, every region has its own variety of arepas. Some have more than one. Bogotá, Ms. Velásquez notes in her new cookbook, “Colombiana,” has at least 72 variations all by itself. “From the sweet yuca arepas of Cesar to the anís arepas of Magangué, from the…
For more than 13 years, the molds that Roland Mesnier used to fashion frozen desserts for heads of state, celebrities and the first family of the United States sat in his basement. After Mr. Mesnier retired as the White House pastry chef in 2004, he began taking his roughly 300 dessert molds to his home…
The Venice Biennale has long been a magnet for the fashion flock, a place to trawl for art and ideas the way it once shopped for buttons and trim in the garment districts of the world; to perhaps engineer the Next Big Art/Fashion collaboration, a mutually beneficial back-scratching arrangement of marketing and commerce that has…
MOREHEAD, Kentucky — En este hermoso pueblo que colinda con el territorio del carbón, 30.600 luces ledes rosas y amarillas y sodio de alta presión hacen brillar un invernadero tan grande que podría cubrir 50 campos de fútbol americano. Al interior, sin una cucharadita de tierra, casi 1,5 millones de kilogramos de tomates corazón de…
New York City’s recovery will depend in large part on the success of a restaurant industry now required to extend its definition of prosperity to include the ability of workers, both front and back of house, to live decently. In this case, the rhetoric of returning to normal is inapt, because “normal” was dysfunctional and…
“During Covid, bookings never slowed down,” she said, noting that some resorts are planning to begin charging for the tests later this month, with rates running from $50 to $150. In Los Cabos, Mr. Chung paid $40 for his Covid test. Lynda Hower, a travel adviser based in Pittsburgh, was vacationing in the Cancún area…
Unlike so many small businesses, Downtown Yarns, Leti Ruiz’s yarn store in New York’s East Village, managed to make it through the pandemic intact. A surge in interest in crafting — including knitting and crocheting, the store’s specialties — brought both returning and new customers in search of comfort and distr action. When people were…
In 1999, while in a sixth-grade math class at Hudson Falls Middle School, in Hudson Falls, N.Y., Tracy Nash and Stacey Pratt bonded over a shared appreciation for Pokémon cards. Each was shy, anxious and introverted, and became best friends. After high school they attended SUNY Adirondack, a community college in Queensbury, N.Y. Ms. Nash…