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For this year’s Culture issue, T asked artistic icons to nominate younger women whose work resonates deeply with them.
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The artist Elvira Solana transformed the grounds of Milan’s Villa Necchi Campiglio for a celebration to kick off the city’s annual design fair.
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“I get more energy the older I get,” says the artist Max Hooper Schneider. “I mean, it could mean I’m having a nervous breakdown, but … I love the studio. I can’t wait to get here. I wake up with butterflies.”
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This week’s T List recommendations include a new Parisian bookstore, a restored farmhouse in Minorca and tableware from Marni.
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.’s goal in this season’s Broadway revival of “Camelot” is to make Guenevere “a real person,” someone driven above all by a desire to be loved.
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By reimagining an apartment inside a storied palazzo, the designer Paola Moretti both preserved its history and gave it a bold new chapter.
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The eternally useful furniture piece is available in new, unusually pleasing forms.
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Max Hooper Schneider’s work space in Los Angeles is a cabinet of curiosities, complete with fish tanks, plastic mushrooms and Nerds candy.
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On the Spanish island of Minorca, a 19th-century farmhouse made of limestone, clay and wild olive wood has been transformed into a boutique hotel.
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. stars as Guenevere in this season’s Broadway revival of “Camelot,” based on the Arthurian legend and opening April 13 at Lincoln Center Theater.
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A palazzo’s second floor is typically the most highly prized, and the most lavishly decorated. The Palazzo Martinengo della Motella’s is no exception.
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These ottomans offer character as well as a soft place to sit.
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Ahead of her latest show’s release, Anna Winger hosted a meal for her friends and collaborators, complete with custom tarot cards.
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This week’s T List recommendations include never-before-seen photographs by Barkley L. Hendricks, an expanding group of Japanese restaurants in Brooklyn and exuberant tableware from Kit Kemp.
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Harvesting Easter eggs is now integral to our consumption of entertainment. But there’s a fine line between perceptiveness and paranoia.
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We asked , who’s on Broadway in the musical “Shucked,” to sing and discuss their favorite song.
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Yann Nury’s New York atelier, where he hosts the lucky few for meals, doubles as a secret design haven.
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Most creators send screeners to their cast and crew just before the launch of a project and then each person previews the show alone, but Anna Winger wanted her team and friends to watch the seven episodes together, and to celebrate over a shared meal.
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At Aigner Chocolates in Forest Hills, Queens, all the sweets are made in-house, just as they’ve been since the store opened 93 years ago.
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At his culinary events, the chef Yann Nury oversees every aspect of the experience, from the flowers to the servers to the stemware to anything else a diner might encounter.
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Friends of the artist Barkley L. Hendricks remember that he always had at least one camera with him. Yet it wasn’t until after his death, in 2017, that his art dealer became aware of just how many photographs he had taken.
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I talked with about Whitney, and playing a character who inhabits two things we don’t usually see at once on Broadway: being plus-size, and being unabashedly sexy.
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This week’s T List recommendations include Ai Weiwei’s first design-focused exhibition, Italian Easter pastries made with balsamic vinegar and kalaidescopic paintings in Kansas.
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A guide to some of the undervalued 20th-century works that testify to the richness of the Black American literary archive.
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Guests sat at a long linen-draped table under the garden’s towering palm trees.
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New monumental works are filling landscapes and galleries, where they argue for the freedom and power to play.
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At this stage in his career, Willem Dafoe says, he has the luxury of accepting assignments on instinct: “When you’re starting out, you feel like every film can ruin you. Now I can take more risks.”
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“Listening to her gave me the space to be myself and have a big voice and be loud and unabashed,” says .
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The natural wine company Chateaumoabit has built a cult following among the city’s environmentally conscious consumers eager to upend a sleepy German wine culture.
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Together, these books help to tell a story of Black American literature that reflects the infinite number of ways of being Black in America — and of being in the world.
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The Bangkok-based creative director Eric Tobua makes towering, wearable creations using materials ranging from fake luxury handbags to okra and durian.
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Christian Louboutin’s three-story tower in Melides, Portugal, stands in stark contrast to the area’s low-slung thatched-roof houses. It’s intended as a place for both parties and meditation.
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On a brisk March night in Mexico City, the Chava Studio designer Olivia Villanti held a dinner for the friends, family members and colleagues who have helped make her made-to-order women’s line a success.
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The sofas are shaped, respectively, like a chubby cloud, a batch of dinner rolls and a Manhattan skyline. They’ve all become so sought-after that each has been reissued by its manufacturer.
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While the history of America can inspire fantasies of scorched-earth demolition, several Black artists have chosen to respond instead with massive experimental construction.
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The founder of the Future Perfect, David Alhadeff, hosted the dinner at the Goldwyn House, the Neoclassical-style mansion in Runyon Canyon that serves as both his home and the gallery’s L.A. outpost.
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The compact space is united by a color scheme of butter and walnut.
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Giorgio Taroni’s collections — of oil paintings, stag beetles, ancient coins and vintage postcards — fill his home on Lake Como.
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