Archive

ARTS & LETTERS

• Becoming Delores: William T. Vollmann Exposes His Alter Ego (3:AM Magazine, 2020)
• Inside Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall’s Fairy-Tale Farm Wedding (Vogue, 2020)
• In the Studio with a Pair of Ethical Taxidermists (T Magazine, 2018)
• The Hungry Eye: On the Irving Penn Retrospective at the Met (Esquire, 2017)
• Trapped In Homs, An Architect Imagines a New Future for Syrian Cities (NYT, 2016)
• The Russian Woman’s Guide to Dealing with Weak Husbands (Vogue.com, 2016)
• War & Peace: Is Paul Dano the Perfect Pierre?  (Vogue.com, 2016)
• Backstage at the Bolshoi: A New Film Peers into the Dark World of Russian Ballet (Vogue.com, 2015)
• Javier Marías: Spain’s Elegant Master Novelist (NYT, 2014)
• “King Charles III”: A British Play Imagines Charles (Finally) in Charge (NYT, 2014)
• Going “Beyond Black” With Nonagenarian French artist Pierre Soulages (NYT, 2014)
• Simon Winder’s Ruritarian Enthusiasms (NYT, 2014)
• William T. Vollmann: Confessions of a Cross-Dresser (NYT, 2013)
• William Wegman, Beyond the Weimaraners (DuJour, 2012)
• In a World of Trailers, Unseen Stars (NYT, 2009)

NEWS, CULTURE & BUSINESS

• Soul Fire Farm’s Leah Penniman Explains Why Food Sovereignty Is Central in the Fight for Racial Justice (Vogue, 2020)
• This Time, The Victory Garden Must Outlast the War (Heated, 2020)
• A Secular Prayer for My Neighbors in Squirrel Hill (Los Angeles Times, 2018)
• Hard-Wired for Love: Understanding the Neuroscience of Romance (NYT, 2017)
• Past(is) Future: Considering Keith McNally’s New York  (Surface, 2017)
• How Pittsburgh Quietly Became a Culture Capital (Departures, 2017)
• Can Duolingo Crush the TOEFL? (Slate, 2016)
• Pittsburgh’s Self-Driven Renaissance (Surface, 2016)
• The Strange Odyssey of Princess Tatiana of Greece (Vogue.com, 2016)
• Rust Belt Romance: How the Ace Hotel Fell Hard for Pittsburgh (Vogue.com, 2016)
• Big Box Bookstores Don’t Have to Die (Slate, 2015)

FOOD & TRAVEL

• Is Farming the Most Interesting Job in America? Kristin Kimball Makes a Case (Vogue, 2020)
• Springtime’s Most Delicious Pursuit: Morel Mushrooms (Wall Street Journal, 2020)
• A Road Trip Through Auvergne’s Natural Wineries and Charming Bistros (Condé Nast Traveler, 2019)
• Arles, France’s Old Arts Mecca, Is Also Its Newest (Condé Nast Traveler, 2018)
• Lost at Sea (W, 2018) [Winner of a third-place prize in the 2018 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards]
• Savoring Médoc: From Grand Cru to Country Cooking (NYT, 2017)
• In Athens, an Unexpected Greek Renaissance (Travel & Leisure, 2017)
• The New American Small Towns (Travel & Leisure, 2017)
• The Laurel Highlands: Where Wright’s Genius Met Its Match (NYT, 2016)
• The Reinvention of Budapest (Travel & Leisure, 2016)
• Dinner by Dalí: the Surrealist Cookbook (Saveur, 2016)
• Chasing Insects and Literary Inspiration in the Stockholm Archipelago (NYT, 2015)
• Freud’s Vienna, from Couch to Café (NYT, 2014)
• David Muñoz: Madrid’s First Three-star Chef (NYT, 2014)
• U.S. Trips to Russia Fall Amid Conflict (NYT, 2014)
• The Love Boat: Getting Hitched on the Queen Mary 2 (T Magazine, 2012)
• Hostel Takeover: The Hôtel Lutetia Has a New Owner. Mazel Tov? (T Magazine, 2011)

DESIGN

• Concrete Poetry: Byron and Dexter Peart Live in the Ultimate Example of Architecture Brut (Elle Decor, 2020)
• Tech Meets Tradition: How a Brooklyn Family Business Handcrafts Headphones (Dwell, 2018)
• Nippon Béton (Elle Decor, 2018)
• 3D-Printing With a Dose of High Design (WSJ, 2017)
• A Home So Uncluttered that it Almost Looks Empty (T Magazine, 2017)
• Profile in Style: Linda Pinto  (W, 2017)
• At Home in Oslo, a Design Couple Thrives by Clashing (T Magazine, 2017)
• Brian Sawyer Puts the Wonder in Wunderkammer (T Magazine, 2016)
• Cottage Industrious: A Lake Erie Cabin packs function into 510 sq. ft. (Dwell, 2016)
• Sylvie Johnson: The Starchitect’s Couturier (W, 2016)
• Case Study: Reinventing a Paris Orphanage (Dwell, 2015)
• Scholten & Baijings’s Bright Ideas (T Magazine, 2015)
• A Prefab Renovation in the Banlieue (Dwell, 2015)
• Royan Treatment: a High-Low Mix for a Remodeled Modernist Apartment by the Sea (Dwell, 2015)
• The Unconventionally Chic Interiors of Dimore Studio (W, 2014)
• The Elegant Trippiness of Claesson Koivisto Rune (T Magazine, 2014)
• Vincenzo de Cotiis: Industrial Elegance (T Magazine, 2014)
• Studio KO’s Culturally Rooted Modernism (T Magazine, 2014)

FASHION & STYLE

• Cyborg Fashion: How Iris Van Herpen Blends the Organic and the Artificial (CMOA Storyboard, 2017)
• The Unbelievable True Story of America’s First Supermodel (Vogue.com, 2016)
• Tamara Ecclestone’s House is a Postmodern Temple to Glamorous Self-Celebration (DuJour, 2015)
• WANT: The Montreal Brothers Behind a Jet Set Leather Brand (NYT, 2015)
• Rick Owens on Shameless Provocation (Surface, 2015)
• An Argentine Artist Elevates an Ancient Craft to Modern Art (T Magazine, 2015)
• Garde Robe: A Rent-a-Closet for the Rich and Famous (NYT, 2013)
• Just Jared: Nice-Guy Bloggers Needn’t Finish Last (NYT, 2011)
• Beware the Doorman Wielding an iPad (NYT, 2011)
• Locks of Love Lost (T Magazine, 2011)
• Ukraine’s Harsh Mistress of High Fashion (T Magazine, 2011)
• Comrade, that Suit is So Chanel (T Magazine, 2010)

Brief encounters with…

Alain de Botton * Alice Pasquini * Álvaro Enrigue * Bernhard Willhelm * Britta Böhler * Carl-Johan Forssen * Cassils * Coca Rocha * Deborah de Robertis *  Deena Herr * Diane Keaton * Efe Cakarel * Francis Keré * Franco Pagetti * Gore Vidal * James Dyson * Jay-Z * Jaume Roures *  Jennifer Lawrence * Jean-Louis Iratzoki * Jens Lekman * Johan Bokaer * John Lithgow * Joyce Carol Oates * Justin Timberlake * Leena Yadav * Leyla McCalla * Ludovico Einaudi *  Ma Yansong * Naji Abu Nowar * Nicholas Cullinan * Oliver Pötzsch * Patricia Piccinini * Pedro Almodóvar * Peter Latz * Peter Mayle * Roberto Calasso * Robert Seethaler *  Samya Arif * Sasha Grey * Seinabo Sey *  Stelios Faitakis * Steven Moffat  * Uma Thurman * Umberto Eco * Waclaw Zimpel * Walter Van Beirendonck * Yael Naim * Zhang Zanbo

International Arts: By the Numbers

This weekly reported column was published in the global edition of the New York Times from 2013 to 2015 and covered, in text and graphics, topics such as:

Art history and A.I. * Attacks on artists * Billionaire-backed art museums * British theater * Burgundy * Canadian identity * the Chinese auction market * Country music abroad * Expatriation and inspiration * Culture and creativity  * Delectable (the app) * Digitizing the Rijksmuseum * E-book completion rates * E-books in Europe * EDM * Exporting Israeli TV * Fashion week * Google Books * Gender equality in film * Indie bookstores * Italy’s architect surplus * Kickstarter * Literary prizes * Literature in translation * Local vs. Global music tastes * London museums * Most-performed composers * Movie dogs and breed popularity * Music festivals * Netflix abroad * Nollywood * Number of photos in the world * Oscar campaigns * Paris architecture * Photo filters * Photography and the art market * Polish cinema * Pricing European Culture (2014) * Pricing European Culture (2015) * Pricing Michelin 3-star restaurants * Reading vs. e-reading * Russian art * the Sagrada Familia * South Korean skyscrapers * Stradivarius and violin shape * Swedish pirates *  Syrian culture at risk * Taxing e-books * The future of 3D film * What is art? * Waist-to-height ratio and Western Art * Women in video games * Yelp Trends * YouTube and music streaming