Music to heal by

Wartburg partners with the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function to bring the healing art of music to those suffering from brain injuries, diseases and limitations.

Setting the mood

A chance meeting with a teacher from the Manhattan School of Music led Heloïse Piéaud to pursue her pianistic dreams in America.

Viewed any good books lately?

“Freed Formats: The Book Reconsidered,” a touring exhibit that opens at the Ridgefield Guild of Artists and Mark Twain Library in Redding March 30, delves into the oft-mystifying form known as book art.

Patterning life

Teeming with colors, pattern and textures, the forthcoming “The Indian Textile Sourcebook” illustrates how design and technique can influence each other.

Multifaceted

For luxe jeweler Graff – whose some 60 stores worldwide include a salon and private viewing room in The Vault at The Saks Shops at Greenwich – design begins with art but it doesn’t end there.

Keys to success

What might the classical composers of yesteryear be like if they were in the music business today? They might be like Chloe Flower – pianist, composer and arranger whose work spans Frédéric Chopin and Sergei Rachmaninoff on one end of the spectrum and the rappers Swae Lee and 2 Chainz on the other with some Johnny Mathis and Celine Dion in the middle.

Bed, bath and definitely beyond

Hang out your “Do Not Disturb” sign and get set to curl up with 35 of the most seductive suites, courtesy of “Mr and Mrs Smith Presents The World’s Sexiest Bedrooms” (Thames & Hudson).

Moonstruck

The Hudson River Museum celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing and its Planetarium, as well as its centennial, with “The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art.”