The David Kordansky Gallery has mounted a wonderful wormhole of an exhibition, “Doyle Lane: Weed Pots.” Its point of access is the small unassuming “weed pot,” a frequent accent in modern California interiors starting in the late 1950s. Thrown on a wheel, Lane’s pots were rarely more than 3 or 4 inches high, spherical or…
The text was brief: “Warning: She made you a cake.” I was packing a weekend bag to spend a couple of nights in the tristate suburbs, and the “she” in question was Susan, my friend’s mother, whose house I’d be staying at. Susan had made a peach, bourbon and pecan cake from Claire Saffitz’s cookbook…
Who: Fashion Trust Arabia What: FTA Prize 2023 Advisory Board Where: Prize Awards to take place October 2023 in Doha Why: Since its inception, Fashion Trust Arabia has provided a platform for MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) designers to gain access to a worldwide network of fashion experts, plus publicity and mentorship that ensure…
A few thoughts about summer cooking: It should be bold, flavorful, refreshing. It should take full advantage of the season’s fresh produce. And, if possible, it should be consumed outdoors. It should also be casual, easy to pull off without much exertion. Much depends on your constitution and strength, of course, so perhaps summer cooking…
“What he does is very different from what we did at Style.com and what we do at Vogue Runway,” Ms. Phelps said. “Those short little headlines, the white Style.com font against the royal blue. They work even better than pictures. You can read it in a flash of a second, half of a second, and…
Though far smaller in scale, the debut of We Are Ona’s Paris studio, on a crisp evening in spring, felt just as significant. Pronzato arrived at the event, a dinner for 16 friends and collaborators, just hours before his guests, having come straight from Los Angeles where We Are Ona hosted a weeklong pop-up at…
Paris has recovered its scents, and the city is suddenly ravenous. The whiffs of shallots sautéing in butter, bread baking, meat roasting and bouillon simmering that invisibly punctuate any stroll in this food-loving city are back. In fact, the French capital is in the midst of a restaurant boom. “I think it’s a carpe diem…
As the FTX cryptocurrency exchange imploded last fall, Tom Brady, the seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback, made an urgent phone call. He dialed Sina Nader, FTX’s head of partnerships. The exchange’s staff was in the middle of a crisis meeting with its beleaguered founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. Mr. Nader couldn’t answer. “I never would’ve expected to decline…
Dianne Cox and Michael Cammer don’t particularly like being married, which is not to say they dislike it. Mostly, it doesn’t matter to them. Dr. Cox, 64, and Mr. Cammer, 56, had been living together nearly 25 years and were raising two college-age daughters when they exchanged vows in April 2017 in their hometown New…
A darkness has fallen across the cobbler belt. You can barely find a peach. A winter that was a touch warm, followed by a series of hard freezes in March, has devastated the Georgia peach crop. Some hopeful state officials estimate that only 10 percent of the crop survived. But out in the field, the…