Gallery openings tend to be staid affairs. White wine, art-world hobnobbing and maybe dinner. O’Flaherty’s, a scrappy gallery in the East Village of Manhattan that’s named after a nonexistent Irish pub, sought to invert the whole notion of the summer group show. First, it held an “open call” in which anyone — starving artists, children,…
Courtesy of Hill House Home Now and then, when a fashion piece is really good (in every sort of way), it becomes one for the masses. Such was the case with Hill House Home’s Nap Dress. No doubt you’ve seen it, whether on your Instagram feed or IRL. Maybe you even own one or two…
About halfway through 2021, Christopher Robbins had had enough. Laid off from a job he had cared about deeply after witnessing multiple media organizations in New York City collapse over the years, Mr. Robbins was ready to free himself. “There’s just a vanishing amount of good jobs,” Mr. Robbins, 36, a former editor at Gothamist,…
Quidditch, the sport of boarding school wizards riding broomsticks in “Harry Potter,” will become “Quadball” to the humans who play the game in real life, its leading organizations said on Tuesday. The groups cited financial obstacles imposed by Warner Bros., the producer of the movie series, holding the trademark to Quidditch, as well as a…
The guide stood before a small group in a dimly lit tepee. “Do you want to be entertained, or to go deep?” he asked. The answer came in giddy unison: “Go deep!” “Good,” he said. “That was a trick question.” The people got cozy on the pillow-strewn floor as the guide went to his keyboard.…
So Jony Ive, the former Apple chief design officer and consultant, and the man most responsible for the visual allure of Apple products — the man who helped transform computers and phones into objects of desire, who made them more than mere vectors of functionality, but rather badges of identity — and his erstwhile employer…
“Look at that caterpillar,” Andrew J. Brand said one afternoon, as we passed a hummocky old bottlebrush buckeye shrub in my garden. What caterpillar, I thought, quickly training my eyes in the direction of his gaze rather than embarrassing myself by acknowledging that I hadn’t noticed anything. What he had spied looked to me like…
Timothy Hale had high hopes for this summer. “Last summer was a tease,” said the 29-year-old hairstylist and freelance photographer, who goes by Tim Hell professionally. “I was hoping this would be the summer I could finally have fun.” After moving to New York City from Baltimore in February 2021, then finding himself cooped up…
Have you ever been on a date in a bizarre or unexpected location? Maybe you crossed the Atlantic Ocean together on a cargo ship. Or perhaps you wound up on the side of a mountain. Or a restaurant after hours. The Modern Love Podcast wants to hear about your unconventional date spot. What led you…
Among the Ivy After a terrible year (I was attacked in my home then suffered through a difficult divorce), my elderly parents visited and helped me pull the ivy that had swallowed my backyard. My father said, “Don’t let that take over again, Irene.” Ten years later, while grappling with stubborn regrowth, I found dad’s…