Five years after Paris watched Notre Dame Cathedral burn, the 861-year-old structure has been restored. It is slated to reopen its doors to the public on Sunday, December 8, with two Catholic masses will commemorating the event. Following the April 2019 blaze, €846 million ($891 million) was raised in donations from 340,000 donors across 150 countries, with...
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Editors’ Picks: Seven Unmissable Projects at Art Basel Miami Beach
Members of the Art Basel editorial team share their personal highlights Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (New York) Kabinett and Galleries (C2) What is American art? When walking the aisles of Art Basel Miami Beach, despite the plethora of extraordinary works on view, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a conclusive answer. And yet, at Michael Rosenfeld’s booth, it might...
The Los Angeles Native Bringing a Distinctive Look to Art Basel’s New Uniforms
In collaboration with GOAT, Diana Yesenia Alvarado brings symbols of resilience and curiosity to her design, capturing the spirit of East LA Diana Yesenia Alvarado, a Los Angeles-based artist making a name for herself with rough-hewn, large-scale ceramic sculptures, brings the textures and colors of East LA into her work. She draws from hand-painted murals,...
Basel Says: Your Essential Guide to Art Basel Miami Beach 2024
Exclusive tours, bespoke products, how to get around: the show at your fingertips Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 is around the corner. Brimming with exceptional art and events, the show opens to the public on Friday, December 6 – unless you would like to attend the exclusive vernissage on the afternoon of Thursday, December 5 (get...
Blurry, Morphing and Surreal – A New AI Aesthetic Is Emerging in Film
Type text into AI image and video generators, and you’ll often see outputs of unusual, sometimes creepy, pictures. In a way, this is a feature, not a bug, of generative AI. And artists are wielding this aesthetic to create a new storytelling art form. The tools, such as Midjourney to generate images, Runway and Sora...
As Fast Fashion’s Waste Pollutes Africa’s Environment, Designers in Ghana Are Finding a Solution
In a sprawling secondhand clothing market in Ghana’s capital, early morning shoppers jostle as they search through piles of garments, eager to pluck a bargain or a designer find from the stalls selling used and low-quality apparel imported from the West. At the other end of the street, an upcycled fashion and thrifting festival unfolds...
Self-Assembling Proteins Can Be Used for Higher Performance, More Sustainable Skincare Products
If you have a meticulous skincare routine, you know that personal skincare products (PSCPs) are a big business. The PSCP industry will reach $74.12 billion USD by 2027, with an annual growth rate of 8.64%. With such competition, companies are always looking to engineer themselves an edge, producing products that perform better without the downsides...
These Peruvian Women Left the Amazon, but Their Homeland Still Inspires Their Songs and Crafts
Sadith Silvano’s crafts are born from ancient songs. Brush in hand, eyes on the cloth, the Peruvian woman paints as she sings. And through her voice, her ancestors speak. “When we paint, we listen to the inspiration that comes from the music and connect to nature, to our elders,” said Silvano, 36, from her home...
Dorothy Allison Was an Authentic Voice for the Poor, Capturing the Beauty, Humor and Pain of Working-Class Life in America
Dorothy Allison, who died on Nov. 5, 2024, published her first novel, “Bastard Out of Carolina,” in 1992, when she was 42 years old. She mined her own life to craft the semi-autobiographical work, which became a finalist for the National Book Award. Growing up poor in Greenville, South Carolina, Allison endured abuse of all...
The Opera and The Magic Flute
The Florida Grand Opera’s staging of The Magic Flute is a truly astonishing update on the classic Mozart opera. The FGO and director Jeffery Marc Buchman have gone beyond the usual expectations for this lavish fantasy of an opera, and have rooted it in reality by framing with dream sequences of an actual, contemporary child....