The following is excerpted from Art in Flower: Finding Inspiration in Art and Nature by Lindsey Taylor (© 2023), with a foreword by Deborah Needleman (released in the U.S. November 2023). Reproduced by permission of Monacelli, a Phaidon company. All rights reserved. Winter Seasons have a way of yielding to the next just when I…
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Perhaps no single theatrical image sums up Broadway‘s 2023 more effectively than Jessica Chastain’s Nora leaving her dreary, unfulfilled doll house life to exit directly into the unlimited possibilities of an honest-to-god New York City street. Unless maybe it’s that huge tree that sprouts up smack dab in the middle of an abandoned Southern plantation…
This monumental collection — 534 well-chosen songs with an encyclopedic book — covers more than half a century of blues recorded in Memphis, with performers both well-known (B.B. King, Furry Lewis, Memphis Minnie, Elvis Presley, Ike and Tina Turner) and barely remembered. There were some constants through the decades: songs about loving, cheating, drinking, hard…
A Confederate monument was recently removed from a park in Jacksonville, Florida, after orders from the city’s mayor. Crews removed the Tribute to the Women of the Southern Confederacy monument from the city’s Springfield park on December 27. The monument had been in the park since 1915. Mayor Donna Deegan said the decision to order…