Over his 15-year career, the artist and creative director Ryder Ripps has built websites for the likes of Kanye West, who is now known as Ye, and Kenzo, designed album covers for musicians such as Grimes and Pop Smoke, and shown his work in respected New York galleries ...
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In one video, the athlete pauses, assesses the height and leaps. He tries to free-climb up the side of a building, before jumping back to the ground. In another, he leaps across a roof, his shadow stretching out long in front of him.This gymnast, though, is a cat ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon MusicBrian Rea“A month is long enough for your life to change. A day is enough. Ten minutes.”12 ...
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The distinctive fabric has been finding new audiences as contemporary fashion houses and avant-garde weavers do their best to elevate the plaid.DUNDEE, Scotland — British kings and queens have worn it. Rebels, punk rockers and couture designers embraced or transformed it. And international drag stars like RuPaul and ...
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A first-generation Apple smartphone is going up for auction.Wright Auctions, a leading venue for the sales of contemporary design goods, has fetched five-figure deals for a Hans Wegner desk, a George Nakashima settee and a chair designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen.For an auction that is set ...
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With thousands of strikes from tools of various sizes, Ndidi Ekubia shapes highly textured yet functional cups, bowls and vases.MANCHESTER, England — The intricate details of 19th- and 20th-century paintings were early influences for Ndidi Ekubia, who loved to look at paintings as a child in this industrial ...
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A confectioner in Kyoto creates her own recipes for the sweets known as wagashi.KYOTO, Japan — On a recent Saturday morning, Sayoko Sugiyama was busy making some warabi mochi, a soft and chewy confection that is just one of the many delicate traditional Japanese sweets called wagashi.It was ...
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Norman Rush’s “Mating” has achieved handshake status among younger readers thinking seriously about romantic relationships.Katherine Champagne had never heard of “Mating,” the award-winning novel by Norman Rush, until one afternoon in 2020, when she popped into a random room on Clubhouse in the early days of that social ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.From Fake Flirtation to Real RomanceIt was one of those Los Angeles evenings fragrant with bougainvillea and possibility. Before long, it was time to return to the party. The band was playing, but there was no ...
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Designers consider window shades and blinds essential for many reasons. But there are so many options — how do you choose the right ones?Most windows need a little help from window coverings to manage light levels or provide privacy. But sometimes it’s just about making them look their ...
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With student enrollments down and retirements rising, Swiss brands worry that growth will stall.The watchmaking world is facing an unprecedented problem: a severe lack of watchmakers who can build and repair timepieces as well as technicians, engineers and other skilled workers. That has contributed to such severe supply ...
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For decades the New York theater world paid homage to J. Smith-Cameron, a veteran stage actress who has often been compared to Carole Lombard for her precise timing and comic verve. When she wasn’t doing Molière or Shakespeare, she was impressing critics and her fellow actors with her ...
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A critical-care nurse wanted to build a house in Los Angeles for ‘just one person.’ Finding the perfect lot wasn’t easy.Mark Arnold had owned a few different homes in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, but none of them fulfilled a dream he had harbored since childhood. “I always ...
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Ilson Goncalves, who runs a popular Brazilian restaurant in New Jersey, never thought he would have a meaningful relationship — until he met Yasar Sakman on a summer vacation in Turkey.At the height of the pandemic, Ilson Leir Goncalves was winning a reputation around Montclair, N.J., as a ...
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