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Laura Frade

Mexico City, Mexico, Spain

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  • 2 days ago | apartamentomagazine.com | Laura Frade

    Sally Grainger is a Roman food historian and archaeologist, a scholars’ scholar whose decades of experimentation and genre-breaking research shattered hundreds of years of misconceptions about Roman food and Roman cooking. Her revolutionary methodology is simple: recreate a Roman kitchen and figure out how to make food that tasted nice, which, in turn, allows for a more accurate translation.

  • 3 days ago | apartamentomagazine.com | Laura Frade

    New York City: I’ve never actually asked Joana Avillez, the author of this simple line drawing, to confirm that it actually is me. There I am in the back, I think, at 101 Spring Street, the once-upon-a-time home of the late Donald Judd. Just a few people to my right is his daughter, Rainer Judd; of that, I’m sure. She’s in the middle of balancing three mandarins on her head.

  • 2 weeks ago | apartamentomagazine.com | Laura Frade

    Los Angeles: Nothing he does is normal. His outfits. His online persona. Being from Kansas. He just did a Super Bowl commercial with Shania Twain, and before that, he was in the studio with Ye. His music, which has been described with a mix of terms ranging from dance to pop to jungle to drum and bass, trades on a nostalgia that other producers have chased for decades. Trying to compare Deaton Chris Anthony misses the point—he’s just doing Deaton.

  • Jan 10, 2025 | apartamentomagazine.com | Laura Frade

    In his adopted home of New York City, we celebrated the launch of Mel Odom — Gorgeous! with the artist himself. Just a few blocks away from the Christopher Street haunts that inspired many of his paintings and drawings, Mel met with readers at Bookmarc for a special signing of his new monograph, edited by Luis Venegas. The December signing marked the end of a year that connected us with Apartamento friends and family in Seoul and Stockholm, from Milan to Tokyo and beyond.

  • Oct 16, 2024 | apartamentomagazine.com | Laura Frade |David Zilber

    Originally published in Apartamento magazine issue #33With all the holes in you already, there’s no reason to define the outside environment as alien. —Jenny Holzer, Survival Series, 1983In Flatland, 19th-century theologian Edwin Abbot Abbot penned a thought experiment-cum-satirical novella where all sorts of problems arise from a world without a Z-axis, from navigating a household to identifying the face of a loved one. Worst of all, without depth, it becomes very hard to eat.