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For These Viennese Artists, Playing With Food Is a Life's Work

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Eve M. Kahn

For more than 20 years, the performance artists known as honey & bunny have served up giddy lessons on consumption. This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter have posed nude for photographs while sprawled amid spilled groceries.
Miriam Ellner Shows Off Her Gilded Glass Talents in a New Book

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Eve M. Kahn

An expert in the lustrous decorative glass technique known as verre églomisé, Miriam Ellner shows off her talents in a new book. This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. "This is my candy box," the artist Miriam Ellner said during a recent tour of her Manhattan atelier, while pointing out stacks of tubs of pixie dust.
Moravian Days: A Historic Community in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Draws International Recognition

2 weeks ago | savingplaces.org | Eve M. Kahn

photo by: Samuel Markey More: Preservation Magazine By: Eve M. Kahn Photography: Samuel Markey I am having a heady preservationist moment in midair. It’s a crystalline winter morning in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a city known for industriousness and architectural stewardship since the 1740s.
Swing City - The Magazine Antiques

1 month ago | themagazineantiques.com | Eve M. Kahn

At home and in her professional life, the keen eye and advocacy of New York collector and retailer Kathryn Hausman have served to breathe new life into the arts of the Jazz Age, a century on. It takes some time for my eyes to adjust to the densely packed splendors at Kathryn Hausman’s New York town house. But once I am acclimated, I see recurring patterns, and it all makes perfect sense.
Letter: Wineries aren't art galleries

Feb 5, 2025 | napavalleyregister.com | Eve M. Kahn

Shame on you, Dan Evans. Where is your respect for Napa County’s Winery Definition Ordinance (WDO)? While most wineries respect the WDO, others have challenged it over the years. A handful of wineries were permitted prior to the WDO. But all the rest are expected to honor the rules and appropriate uses in their permits. The WDO’s goal is to keep wineries, wineries — not art galleries, wedding venues or restaurants. Special events are allowed as defined in use permits.
The young collectors on the hunt for Old Masters

Oct 22, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Eve M. Kahn

An exhibition at the Ashmolean suggests that for Rubens and his peers, graphite, ink and chalk were not simply preparatory tools but a means of reinventing matter
What real American women have worn

Oct 10, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Eve M. Kahn

Occupying one relatively modest gallery, this rather niche show at the New-York Historical Society punches far above its weight. During my visits, I keep overhearing emotions expressed, especially wistfulness and astonishment. Visitors reminisce about the ambitious fashion choices of their youth and their foremothers’ tastes in dowdy or psychedelic housecoats.
A grand and gracious 25-room Gilded Age mansion comes with the job

Oct 4, 2024 | startribune.com | Eve M. Kahn

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — “It’s a 7,000-square-foot house, and I am alone,” Crystal Williams said solemnly, about halfway through a four-hour tour of her Gilded Age residence in Providence, Rhode Island. She moved in two years ago, upon becoming the 18th president of the Rhode Island School of Design, and is not done arranging it.
Letter: Neighbors and hot coffee

Aug 23, 2024 | napavalleyregister.com | Eve M. Kahn

The predawn earthquake woke us up with a jolt. We put on shoes, grabbed a flashlight, and headed downstairs. At our house, the shaking was distinctly E-W. Fortunately, all our kitchen cabinet doors never opened so all our dishes and glasses were intact. Only a few large red wine glasses broke as they sat on an open shelf. My husband and I headed back upstairs until dawn. As the sun rose, we made coffee for my husband and tea for me and walked around our court to see if anyone needed help.
The silversmith who struck gold at Tiffany

Jul 25, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Eve M. Kahn

From the July/August 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. We know what the collector and tastemaker Edward Chandler Moore (1827–91) liked to look at, handle, read and make, but much else about him remains mysterious. He worked for decades as a silversmith, designer and executive at Tiffany & Co. in New York, while encouraging his underlings to educate themselves by poring through his antiques and library.