Patti Smith usually spends her birthday, December 30, playing cathartic rock at the Bowery Ballroom. But to mark her 66th, destruction made her do differently: she day-tripped to Rockaway Beach, the peninsula jutting off Queens she started visiting in the… Read More
Braque meets beach – the perfect angle from which to imagine learning how to scuba dive (number one on my bucket list). So as I spend this soggy day thinking of sunny skill building, I escape to La… Read More
My feisty dog, aka my spirit animal, turns six today, so in honor of her, a dog days destination: in Cottonwood, Idaho (population 900), the Dog Bark Park Inn (say that 10 times quickly) boasts the world’s one and only bed and breakfast inside… Read More
I do – to this marriage of art and pride. During NYC Pride Week, starting tomorrow, couples of all orientations can get hitched in a kaleidoscope chapel perched atop the Wythe Hotel in… Read More
Nostalgic for Saturday adventures in NYC. On Brooklyn-based weekends, I would wander with the subway (in outfits as easy as this Loup dress, sweatshirt and skirt attached): aboard the F, en route to Coney Island, the railway cresting at… Read More
An exhibition hall as beautiful as the art displayed within? Novel idea. Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron set out to do just that when hired to replace the primary hall for Art Basel in Switzerland. Also charged… Read More
Time to freefall: Every spring, snowmelt cascades down the tiered Baatara Gorge in northern Lebanon. Three natural bridges crisscross the cave, framing the 830-feet-long freefall into the Baatara Pothole, a chasm through Jurassic limestone burrowing into Mount Lebanon. A day trip from Beirut, I… Read More
Once upon a time, in a faraway land (Manhattan), there was a four-story-tall Puppy with a pelt of flowers who sit-stayed all summer in Rockfeller Center. People loved Puppy and Puppy loved people, but it took another… Read More
Richard Wilson has built his career on masterful mischief and impossible installations: he carved a circle from a concrete building, tilting it open like a window; he scrunched the corner of the London School of Economics into a stone tumble; he sliced a ship… Read More
In honor of my dad: the land he loves with its signature heart-shaped oak grove and the sculptural ring he gave me for my high school graduation.… Read More
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