For the birds (and us)
byAn acclaimed new book by Yale ornithologist Richard O. Prum says a lot about the current battle of the sexes.
Inspired by romance
An acclaimed new book by Yale ornithologist Richard O. Prum says a lot about the current battle of the sexes.
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.
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.
Hearts, minds and tastes melt together in Melt Sandwich Shop of White Plains and the new Roasted Sandwich Co. in Stamford.
Astrology, an age-old practice, is getting an internet update – good news for those who like to keep up with their horoscopes, just in case.
Anthony Bourdain, the author of the “meathead bible” is calling for a change.
“The Neo-Victorians: Contemporary Artists Revive Gilded-Age Glamour” opens this month at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers.
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.
WAG has its first encounter with nerdlesque – a growing subculture of burlesque capturing the geekier side of striptease – at The Slipper Room in Manhattan.
An exhibition at The Museum at FIT explores what “a fashionable body” has meant throughout history.
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.
Consider a nontraditional gift for this romantic holiday by getting tickets to the “Twisted Valentines Festival.”
A love of all things Italian fuels a fun, encyclopedic new book, “La Dolce Vita University.”
Humanitarian as well as artist, Ann Hampton Callaway is as adept at writing and singing her own songs as she is at interpreting tunes from a wide range of sources.
At Home on the Sound helps Larchmont and Mamaroneck seniors stay in the communities they love – in style.
Vogue darling Luke Edward Hall has a Picasso-like versatility, gift for drawing and love of neoclassical beauty.
This angular, Zen-like home on Greenwich’s Thunder Mountain Road – with its striking use of green brick, Asian influences and floor-to-ceiling windows – is Modern with a capital “M.”
The experts agree: Alpine racer Mikaela Shiffrin is the one to beat at the Winter Olympics.
Killington isn’t just for skiers.
For its combination of physical agility and mental acuity, fencing may be the ultimate sport.