Articles

  • 1 month ago | nytimes.com | Alice Newell-Hanson

    Food Matters takes a closer look at what we eat and how it defines us. It's hard to describe classic British dishes without reinforcing the stereotype that English food is bland, beige and soggy. Fish pie: a monochromatic pairing of milky cod and mashed potato. Mushy peas: boiled legumes puréed into pulp. Even summer pudding, filled with vibrant fresh berries, is encased in wet white bread.

  • 2 months ago | nytimes.com | Alice Newell-Hanson |Blaine L. Davis

    By Design takes a closer look at the world of design, in moments big and small. NOT LONG AFTER buying their home in the early months of the pandemic, a young couple from New York City brought in a shaman. Lights were turning on and off without explanation, doors were spontaneously opening and closing.

  • Aug 12, 2024 | nytimes.com | Alice Newell-Hanson |Jason Schmidt

    AS AN ANALOGY for life's unpredictability, a home renovation goes far. There are few more literal ways in which we try to make our visions of the future concrete. But pipes leak, budgets creep and patience runs thin. Then there are the strange, happy accidents that come from making something personal under heightened conditions.

  • Jun 17, 2024 | taustralia.com.au | Alice Newell-Hanson |Hollie Wornes

    In 1973, the painter Stanley Whitney moved into a long, skinny loft overlooking Cooper Square in downtown Manhattan. In the course of the next 50 years, he’d meet and marry the artist Marina Adams, who makes rhythmic large-scale paintings in vibrant jewel tones, and together, they’d raise their son, William — all in that loft.

  • Mar 18, 2024 | nytimes.com | Alice Newell-Hanson |Simon Watson

    Out on Long Island, Stanley Whitney and Marina Adams hired a pair of designers to create a house and studio complex that celebrates - and encourages - the painters' imagination. In the entranceway of the artists Stanley Whitney and Marina Adams's Bridgehampton, N.Y., home, a painting by Adams hangs above a vessel by Masaomi Yasunaga and an oak bench. Credit... Simon Watson.