One cool equestrian
Lucy Davis, the new trainer at Old Salem Farm in North Salem, works with riders on the mental as well as physical aspects of equestrian competition.
At home in cafés
Being a part of and apart from while creating in a café.
A desert flower at home in Hawaii
The New York Botanical Garden previews an eye-opening look at Georgia O’Keeffe’s work in – of all places – the Aloha State. Who knew?
Her mother’s daughter
With filmgoers flocking to “The Post,” Lally Weymouth talks about her mother – the movie’s heroine, legendary Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham – and their lives in journalism.
Restoring Paris’ ‘heart’
An American organization seeks to restore a church that is at the center of Parisian history.
Magic carpet ride
Faig Ahmed travels the imagination on his carpets, which marry traditional designs from his native Azerbaijan to digital techniques.
Wallpaper wows
Wallpaper can make a statement by setting a mood or providing an accent. Now you can create your own with the book “The Art of Wallpaper.”
More than skin deep
All men may be created equal, but all skin cancers aren’t.
For the birds (and us)
An acclaimed new book by Yale ornithologist Richard O. Prum says a lot about the current battle of the sexes.
‘Love hurts’: fear and longing in the work of Federico Uribe
A new monograph, with strong ties to the Hudson River Museum, explores the contemporary Colombian artist Federico Uribe – whose haunting mixed-media paintings and sculptures draw on a difficult childhood, his complex relationship with Roman Catholicism and the violence of his homeland.
Mother love
In her affecting new memoir, “The Bridesmaid’s Daughter,” Nyna Giles charts her mother’s journey from fashion model and Grace Kelly bridesmaid to homeless shelter resident – and her own attempt to understand her.
Victoria’s secrets
Queen Victoria, the woman who gave her name to an age of probity and prudery even – think piano legs sporting a kind of pantaloons – was herself not particularly Victorian. At least not when it came to men.
Drawing on the male nude
A rarefied new show at The Morgan Library & Museum captures the “Power and Grace” of art historical study in the works of Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens.
Bewitching linesman
Vogue darling Luke Edward Hall has a Picasso-like versatility, gift for drawing and love of neoclassical beauty.
The cutting edge
For its combination of physical agility and mental acuity, fencing may be the ultimate sport.
The divine designer
The agony and the ecstasy – mostly ecstasy – of Michelangelo at The Met.
Star qualities
They’re more than meets the eye.
Show-stopper
The American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center for Earth and Space dazzles with interactive displays, fun scales and films that take you back to the future.
Reaching for the stars
While he thought it a failure, Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” is one of the icons of the art world and New York.
That’s so Raven
The chocolate, palm and tarot reader focuses on fun in the here and now.