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Avery Alpha loved everything about New York City: her friends, the fashion, the culture. But she wanted to work in foreign policy and government, so she packed her bags and moved to Washington, accepting a position with ...

Early Friday morning, when Ann Shumard’s radio delivered the news that B.B. King had died the night before, the senior curator of photographs at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery swung into action. “I dro...

Early Friday morning, when Ann Shumard's radio delivered the news that B.B. King had died the night before, the senior curator of photographs at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery swung into action.

Like this entry? Favorite it below! Name: Caleb Location: Fort Wayne, IN Square Feet: 850 Division: Small What I Love About My Small Home: Our apartment is nestled deep within a retro country club from the late 70's whic...

The current issue of Public, the on-line journal of Imagining America, a consortium of universities and cultural organizations dedicated to strengthening the public and democratic roles of arts, humanities, and design, i...

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The first of this two-part series examining and appreciating the photorealism of Yigal Ozeri tracked his career through his bold paraphrases of (art) historical manifestations of physical perfection. With the recent open...

Credit: Betty Clicker Photography Liz Susong and Carly Romeo, founders of the new Catalyst Wedding Magazine, felt it was time the bridal industry had a "feminist disruption." Their magazine, which launches later this mon...

The death of B.B. King forces us to think about the custody of the blues itself. Where does the music go now? Or has it already left? And to where?King, who died in Las Vegas on Thursday at the age of 89, was one of the ...

Pin it Mad Men ends its eight-year run on Sunday. But, Google Play and Lionsgate have created an interactive retrospective, exploring the entire series. "The Mad Men Experience" features over 300 pieces of content, inclu...

Academic studies can be fascinating... and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. The Background Bathroom stalls are one of the few corners of the IRL wor...

Iowa-born and Pennsylvania-raised Bryan Fox identifies himself as a "quintessential hyphenate." Already a writer and director, the multidisciplinary creative recently delved into the world of photography as well. His fir...

In a piece entitled "Traces of the Holy: The contemporary art work as 'crypto-relic'" (TLS, 4/10/15), Matthew Bown makes the following comment, "The art market today is a market in crypto-relics, no more, no less. The di...

After a week of speculation among diehard fans of “The Mindy Project,” the cult-favorite Fox sitcom created by actress/writer Mindy Kaling, the news is official: The show has been picked up by Hulu for a fourth seaso...

Like this entry? Favorite it below! Name: Catherine Location: Paris France Square Feet: 742 Division: International What I Love About My Small Home: We love the open plan design of our apartment in Belleville, Paris with...

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Lauren, Sean and David Carpenter make up the Carpenter musical trio that plays Semi-Canonical Great Feud in their apartment's living room at The Plaza Hotel. The trio is popular for playing as well as selling Stradivariu...

Pin it When you live in one place for awhile, rooms will begin to need a refresh. Such was the case for Sarah's bedroom, and she enlisted the help of best friend and former roommate Katie to help give the small space a m...

I've been away -- I mean psychically, mourning a friend; an employee at my bookstore who died very tragically two weeks ago. Her name was Cindi DiMarzo. You can read about Cindi HERE, if you'd care to; a remembrance of h...

If an invasion of extra terrestrials were imminent we could do worse than imagine creatures resembling those of Alexander McQueen's at London's Victoria & Albert Museum. Aggressively bejewelled, thunderously elegant, the...

The Zeitgeist is like a person who walks into a room and feels totally at home. "Zeit" in German is time and "Geist" is spirit. So the words literally means "spirit of the time." But there are, in fact, certain people an...

I've just returned from a 10-day writer's residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA) in Amherst, Virginia, 20 minutes north of Lynchburg. Before the residency, I spent a few days touring the area which is ...