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Jun Kaneko is a ceramics artist, a sculptor, a painter, a maker of public art -- and an opera designer. The last is a kind of aberration, a blip on his career radar. To date, he has created sets and costumes for three op...

The first time Katie Thorne ran into Christian Baumann, he was dressed like a leprechaun and wearing a bright orange T-shirt that said, "Show Me Your Shamrocks." It was St. Patrick's Day 2011, and both were celebrating w...

I spent a year being Jehnny Beth, night and day consumed by my persona, traveling the world and fronting Savages, doing my job the best I could. Bigger audiences pushed me to find the entertainer in me, stretch my ego, r...

Curbed has photos from a 1941 model apartment on NYC's Fifth Avenue. Rock-hard beds aside, there's not too much difference between the modern aesthetic then and now.

Q: About a year ago my fiance went to buy a leather cowhide rug. He ended up getting a "great deal," but it was not a rug, just the cowhide, and a hairless one at that! He insisted on using it as a rug even though it rea...

So far in 2014, using the excellent Web resource OperaBase as a travel-planning tool, Jackie and I have built two European vacations around performances of operas by the seventeenth-century Venetian composer Francesco Ca...

From The Kitchn ' Bright and Sunny: Yellow in the Kitchen

In the Enlightenment, the human body was the new frontier. Lord Byron would become a fitness fanatic obsessed with fat. Surgeons cut into cadavers to discover what had lain concealed before the era's medical explorations...

Last year, Martijn Deykers -- the NoVa-based DJ and producer who performs as Martyn -- described the rhythms of creative process like so: "When you're happy, you go sit in the sun. You make music when you're down."

This letter is currently on exhibit with 49 other letters to mayors across 20 cities at Storefront for Art & Architecture downtown. Dear Mayor De Blasio: Thank you. Thank you for being you. Thank you for talking about a ...

Last week, New York City's Pratt Institute closed the doors on its highly successful "Black Dress: Ten Contemporary Fashion Designers" exhibit, which ran for 11 weeks and spotlighted the contributions and creations of bl...

Beverly Hills, what a thrill! Beverly Hills, what a thrill! "Troop Beverly Hills," the iconic film about fake Girl Scout cookies, shopping and being a dictator's daughter, turned 25 this year. Snakkle caught up with all ...

Even under the best of circumstances, creating an original musical is tough sledding. But the writers of children's musicals face a special artistic challenge: To build an audience, they need to mount a production that w...

I have passed the Point Way Inn, home of Noepe Center for Literary Arts and Martha's Vineyard Writers Residency, hundreds of times. My family vacationed on the Island for years, and now my daughter lives there, a full-ti...

Name: Judah (4) & Layla (3)Location: Senoia, GeorgiaRoom Size: 110 sq ft Judah and Layla's shared space is about the same size as my daughter's small nursery (albeit a bit taller), so I was amazed with how their mother K...

Sunday, May 4, is "Star Wars" Day (aka May the Fourth Be With You), which means it's as good a time as any to listen to the film's iconic John Williams music. To celebrate the fake holiday, Rdio.com has compiled a playli...

With a design inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, visitors to Wisconsin's Canoe Bay asked for their own versions. The result is the Escape Cabin, 400 square feet, built by hand by local craftsmen, and completely mobile.

There it hung Friday morning, all alone on a creamy gray wall in an auction house in midtown Manhattan: Huguette Clark's painting by Claude Monet of the artist's famous lily pond in Giverny. So this is what $25 million t...

There it hung Friday morning, all alone on a creamy gray wall in an auction house in midtown Manhattan: Huguette Clark‘s painting by Claude Monet of the artist’s famous lily pond in Giverny. So this is what $25 milli...

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He may look fit, but researchers in Italy believe Michelangelo's David is in danger of collapsing due to his weak ankles. According to findings from Italy's National Research Council and the University of Florence, the f...

I was fortunate to see opening night of Madison Opera's too-brief run of Dead Man Walking. The next morning I posted this to my blog: Go. You must see this opera. I never begin a review like this, but I can not lie. If y...