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After a Major Restoration, Notre Dame Cathedral is Reopening. Here’s What to Expect.
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After a Major Restoration, Notre Dame Cathedral is Reopening. Here’s What to Expect.

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...

Editors’ Picks: Seven Unmissable Projects at Art Basel Miami Beach
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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
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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
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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
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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...

Self-Assembling Proteins Can Be Used for Higher Performance, More Sustainable Skincare Products
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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...

Dorothy Allison Was an Authentic Voice for the Poor, Capturing the Beauty, Humor and Pain of Working-Class Life in America
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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
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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....