Black Male Writers for Our Time
These 32 American men, and their peers, are producing literature that is essential to how we understand our country and its place in the world right now.
These 32 American men, and their peers, are producing literature that is essential to how we understand our country and its place in the world right now.
The idea of the artist (or designer or director or author) creating in a vacuum has always been a romance and has never seemed more mythical than it does today.
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Expertly crafted items, from a geode carved out of rock candy to drop earrings studded with tagua seeds, that possess something of a life force.
In her four-decade career, the artist has gone her own way, creating unapologetically lovely work that feels particularly relevant.
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The Comforting Appeal of Herbs
In bouquets and on the plate, the workhorses of the kitchen reclaim their mystical powers.
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At Giorgio Armani’s Weekend Retreat, Live Swans and Gilded Arches
For decades, the fashion designer has been escaping to an estate outside Milan that proves even minimalists (sometimes) like a little coziness.
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Why Is Japan Still So Attached to Paper?
Washi is to the Japanese something like what wine is to the French — a national obsession and point of pride.
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It Took 800 Hours to Make This Chanel Dress
Capturing one incredible piece in the middle of its creation. This month: a silk tulle sheath.
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How the Myth of the Hedonistic Artist Lost Its Allure
These days — despite longstanding clichés about art and excess — the creative impulse can actually be more closely tied to asceticism.
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For the latest installment of Make T Something, Paul Andrew pays tribute to an iconic high heel.
The women’s creative director of Salvatore Ferragamo accepts T’s challenge to make something in less than one hour with only a few select items — and reinterprets a classic design.
By United Labor
Nelson George, Samuel R. Delany, Major Jackson and others tell us about some of their favorite works of literature.
A behind-the-scenes look at how 32 extraordinary black male writers came together for a T Magazine photo shoot at the Brooklyn Historical Society, where they shared tributes to their favorite black female writers.
By Yvonne Shirley
So dominant were his dangling masterpieces that others avoided the form, but now, enough time has passed for others to sway beside him.
By Nancy Hass
For centuries, it’s been both medium and topic; now, an emerging cohort is challenging what it means to play with the most essential material.
By Ligaya Mishan
An emerging cohort is making work that is born out of, and that must on some level contend with, a culture that has turned food into fetish.
After 530 hours of labor, the final embellishments: 82,500 sequins and stones, all hand-sewn.
By Gautier Billotte
Nothing quite matches but everything fits in Caroline Weller’s airy family abode in India — including a giant unfinished mural.
By Ligaya Mishan
T’s cultural compendium of what’s new.
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