The He(ART) of a City
For any notable cosmopolitan city to thrive and bring in both national and international visitors, a key element must exist: art. And without the talented individuals who paint the murals,…
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The Universe of Second City Television
Comedy would be entirely different today without SCTV. At first glance, the Canadian sketch show may seem like a footnote in television history—a bunch of Canucks acting silly who happened…
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In The Heart of Memphis
In 1981, a group of Italian designers changed the look of the decade with a movement improbably called Memphis. The name itself didn’t even actually mean much—it paid homage to…
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Hockney on the Mind
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work,” the British painter David Hockney has previously said. Judging by…
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Azuma’s Azaleas
“Flowers and plants are already perfect,” says Makoto Azuma, the world’s most sought-after flower artist and botanical sculptor. “Everyone acknowledges their beauty. It symbolizes beauty and life.” Azuma had been…
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Rising Above
Justin Peck never wanted to be a ballet dancer. That is, until his mom pushed him to enroll as a supernumerary in American Ballet Theatre’s production of Giselle. Resistant at…
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Becoming Birkin
The night Jane Birkin flung herself into the inky-black waters of the Seine, she did so to end a lovers’ quarrel. She was 19 and her lover, Serge Gainsbourg, 36.…
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The Away Game
As a Harvard-trained journalist embedded with the Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan, the subject of Sebastian Abbot’s latest book, The Away Game, might seem like a far departure. Yet behind…
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A World Apart
Peter Hujar would often complain to his close friend, the writer Fran Leibowitz, that the reason he wasn’t more successful was his name. “Everyone that’s famous has the same first…
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The Man Behind Bond
Being James Bond is as much burden as boast. The role has defined, and in many cases limited, the actors who have embodied it on the big screen, from the…
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