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Rembrandt + Rembrandt
A brazen, stylish rake leans out from the wall toward the center of the gallery, inching away from a weary elder flanking him.
Beach House + Tomato Sandwich
The light is warm on the Outer Cape, the blue air fresh with salt.
Perverse Furniture + Its Mixtape
Here at Rysz + Rysz we often suggest soundtracks as you view a work of art or eat a meal.
Gender Bending + The Bauhaus
At a recent MFA Late Nite, New England sartorial restraint is in short supply.
Claudia Fontes + Thameur Mejri
In a stall painted eraser pink, bodies are shape-shifting.
Italian Baroque + Bonci Pizza al Taglio
A glow flickers across the honeycomb surface, theatrically hitting high and low reliefs along the coffered expanse.
Kendrick Lamar + Carl Pope
“I'll prolly die from one of these bats and blue badges / Body slammed on black and white paint, my bones snappin',” Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning virtuoso Kendrick Lamar raps in a numbed roll.
Tarfia Faizullah + Sherkaan
“Ya just can’t deal with another stranger’s surprise at yr love of both tequila and mango lassis,” Tarfia Faizullah writes, deadpanning over the microaggression.
Goose Egg + Mercurial Rock
Look west through Eero Saarinen’s catenary curve, well beyond the stringy shadow of the Gateway Arch, to where Vicia Restaurant is perched.
Destruction + Creation
Two of the art world’s most debated figures are making space for new works in New Haven.
Papestries + Šimtalapis
Totems loom over the crowds of Armory Week, nine feet tall and luminously prismatic.
Ribeye + The Limiñanas
The first thing we notice at Boucherie Les Provinces are glowing display cases, the meat inside so voluptuously red it nearly pulses with its own light.
Northern Line + Iberian Peninsula
As the Ides of March bear down, pressing the winter to settle its seasonal debt, we consider the payment overdue.
Dim Sum + Transformation
In the 129 years The Lantern Inn has run in Wassaic, it’s a safe bet that dim sum never headlined the menu.
Breuer + Al Pastor
US postwar development encouraged traffic to bypass the heart of most cities on endless expanses of highway.
Harlem + Montmartre
A damp cold weighs deeply during winter rain, chilling the broad avenues of Manhattanville.
Jazz + Okonomiyaki
Frenzy. Klezmer. Wistful. Surreal. Words we scrawl at a café table in the dark while listening to Adam Matlock play the accordion.
Puntale Vineyard + Marciana Borgo d’Arte
A bowl of bright water under cliffs of rosemary and pine.