For over 20 years, Melissa Goldstein worked as a magazine photo editor. While researching imagery, she developed a fascination with Scandinavian ceramics, 17th-century botanical illustrations and Japanese woodblock prints dating back to the 1500s. It wasn’t until she moved to Brooklyn and began rehabilitating the overgrown garden behind her brownstone
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Sophie Turner ‘Furious’ Joe Jonas Painted Her as ‘Hard-Partying Booze Hound’ Amid Divorce
Joe Jonas opened up about his divorce from Sophie Turner at his concert in L.A. on September 9. “It’s been a crazy week,” he told fans, before the Jonas Brothers sang “Hesitate,” the song he wrote for his estranged wife — as a single tear ran down his cheek. He’s
The Artist Who Painted a Metropolis
As Jesse Marsch takes over Leeds United, he faces the troublesome activity of changing Marcelo Bielsa, who was equal components coach and icon. Source link
In Mexico, Ornately Painted Church buildings Enshrine Years of Indigenous Resilience
FOR CENTURIES, THE very first thing that residents of the Mexican village of Nurio noticed once they walked by means of the heavy wood doorways of their adobe-plastered church was an orchestra of angels. Painted on pine panels mounted in an arch beneath the choir, the pictures have been doubtless
Peter Williams, Who Painted the Black Experience, Dies at 69
Peter Williams, whose colorful paintings — sometimes humorous, sometimes disturbing, often both — reflected his own history, Black history and contemporary issues like police brutality and mass incarceration, died on Aug. 19 in Wilmington, Del. He was 69. His wife, Elishka Vitanovska Mayer, said the cause was a heart attack.
A Performance Piece That Pairs Painted Waves Alongside Real Ones
For the first two weeks of August, Melissa McGill’s studio was beneath a white canopy tent pitched on the undulating backyard lawn of Rough Point, one of the impossibly large Gilded Age homes facing Newport, R.I.’s Bellevue Avenue on one side and the Atlantic on the other. Working mornings and
Colorado Opera House Attic Holds Century-Old Painted Sets
LEADVILLE, Colo. — One summer day three years ago, Wendy Waszut-Barrett stumbled onto quite the discovery at the Tabor Opera House, high in the Colorado Rockies. “I still get excited about it now,” she said in a recent interview, “and I get all flushed.” Waszut-Barrett, a specialist in period theatrical