This column is part of a series for the Design special report of The New York Times. Readers are invited to send questions to designadvice@nytimes.com. I’m buying the unit above my condo and would like to install a spiral staircase to save room. Everyone I know warns me that spiral staircases are huge pains. Do…
New York’s Armory Show, opening on Thursday, starts the spring culture season. But for those who can’t (or won’t) trek to Piers 92 and 94 on the Hudson River, where winds are still wintry, may we suggest picking up one of the season’s coffee-table books about design, art and artfulness through the decades? Image For…
The abstract artist Sean Scully has striped his canvases in yellows from palest omelet to warning flare. His choices have been uncontroversial — his paintings have sold for more than $1 million each — until last summer, when he went a shade too far on one of his own homes. Mr. Scully, 73, specified Gold…
On a recent rainy Friday, Hubert le Gall, a French art furniture designer, was “at home” at the Twenty First Gallery in TriBeCa, on the eve of his first American retrospective. “It’s more like a ‘best of,’” Mr. le Gall said of the show. “It’s like a portrait.” Dressed in a gray sweater and bluejeans,…
Elliot Claire: What kind of baby name is that? A girl’s name? A boy’s name? Both? Mission accomplished, said Elizabeth and Sean Scotten, of Oakland, Calif., who became parents to Elliot Claire almost a year ago. “We loved the juxtaposition of a name that’s more traditionally masculine and a name that’s more feminine,” Ms. Scotten,…
IMAGE: Zinia Jaman, a Purdue University doctoral student in chemistry, prepares a reactor system as part of the process for making generic lomustine using a continuous manufacturing method. The Food and… view more WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Food and Drug Administration wants the pharmaceutical industry to get away from making drugs using the traditional batch…
IMAGE: Parents of a child with pediatric onset multiple sclerosis may need long-term supports from mental health professionals and advocacy organizations to cope with the emotional and financial impact the disease… view more Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Seemingly overnight, healthy children develop mysterious, potentially disabling symptoms. When children finally receive a…
Athens, Ga. – The age a woman begins menstruation is associated with having high blood pressure later in her life, according to a team of researchers at the University of Georgia. Specifically, researchers found that early onset menstruation significantly increased risk of hypertension in late adulthood, even after controlling for independent social economic factors, lifestyle…
IMAGE: Brown University researchers have developed a coating for intravascular catheters that kills bacteria and keeps them from forming hard-to-eliminate biofilms. The image shows that coated catheters are able to keep… view more Credit: Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown University researchers have developed a new antibacterial coating for intravascular catheters that could one…
WASHINGTON–Researchers will explore the link between unhealthy snack intake and screen time, long-term opioid use and its impact on men’s testosterone levels, and other emerging science during news conferences at ENDO 2019, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting taking place March 23-26 in New Orleans, La. The Society is debuting two new Clinical Practice Guidelines at…