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T's May 14 Summer Travel Issue

Highlights

  2. T’s Travel Issue

    A Journey Into Norway’s Endless Night

    On the Svalbard archipelago, during the months without sunlight, one starts to see strange things in the dark.

     By Taymour Soomro and Scott Conarroe

    Longyearbyen, named for a Michigan native who brought mining to Svalbard in the early 1900s, is now home to about 2,500 people from 55 nations.
    CreditScott Conarroe
  3. T’s Travel Issue

    What Survives in the Atacama Desert?

    In Chile, a writer takes a road trip through one of the world’s driest places — a landscape that preserves remnants of the dead.

     By Maggie Shipstead and Anthony Cotsifas

    The Tara Salt Flat sits at 14,000 feet in the northern Chilean Andes, at the eastern edge of the Atacama Desert. Some 250 miles to the west lies the Pacific Ocean and, in between, a vast, near rainless interior.
    CreditAnthony Cotsifas
  4. Letter from the Editor

    Why Travelers Should Seek Out Discomfort

    Taking a trip has long been associated with pleasure. But there is nothing more bracing — and vitalizing — than immersing yourself in an unforgiving environment.

     By Hanya Yanagihara

    The interior of an abandoned school on Aoshima, an island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea where there are now just a few human residents — none of them children — and many more cats.
    CreditKyoko Hamada

  1. Why Do American Diners Have Such a Limited Palate for Textures?

    Complex taste sensations play a crucial role in food around the world — but have long been shunned stateside.

     By Ligaya Mishan and Esther Choi

    A chocolate lava cake with an oozing, molten core.
    CreditEsther Choi. Set design by Jocelyn Cabral
    Food Matters

  2. When Sleep Becomes an Art Form

    In an age of burnout, artists are discovering that one of the most radical forms of resistance is rest.

     By Julia Halperin

    The artist Nibia Pastrana Santiago performing an “almost dance” known as “Port Practice” in 2019 by the Hudson River in Manhattan.
    CreditCourtesy of Nibia Pastrana Santiago. Photo by Greta Hartenstein
    Notes on the Culture

  3. Why Monumental Cream Puff Towers Are on the Rise

    Croquembouche, the French pastry popularized in the early 19th century, is suddenly back on the banquet table.

     By Ella Riley-Adams

    CreditPhotograph by Florent Tanet. Set design by Nicholas William White
    Making It

  4. A Fantastical Art Gallery Masquerading as a Suburban Garage

    In Arlington, Va., Margaret Bakke has made the exhibition space in her driveway a celebration of creativity.

     By Alice Newell-Hanson and Jared Soares

    An installation view of the 2022 show “Mise En Place” at Bakke’s gallery, Friends Artspace, including a chandelier by Braxton Congrove, vases by Saraï Delfendahl and a candelabra by Nienke Sikkema.
    CreditJared Soares
    Home and Work

  5. Willy Chavarria and Omar Apollo on Faith and Heartbreak

    Two creative people in two different fields in one wide-ranging conversation. This time: the fashion designer and the “Ivory” musician.

     By Juan A. Ramírez

    The fashion designer Willy Chavarria (left) and the musician Omar Apollo, photographed in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, on Feb. 18, 2023.
    CreditDaniel Terna
    admiration society

  1. This Spring, Classic Silhouettes Come With an Edge

    High-contrast accessories — whether neckties with stilettos or boots with pearls — give well-honed tailoring a new appeal.

     By Keizo Kitajima and Suzanne Koller

    From left: Hermès jacket; and Alaïa bandanna. Prada coat, $4,100, and shirt, $4,600, prada.com; Celine Homme by Hedi Slimane shirt (worn underneath); and Mikimoto Comme des Garçons necklace, $5,200.
    CreditPhotograph by Keizo Kitajima. Styled by Suzanne Koller

  2. On Long Island, an Artist’s Studio That Floats Among the Trees

    The space, with its tall, panoramic windows, allows the painter Patrick McDonough and the florist Michael Burst to immerse themselves in the surrounding environment.

     By Kurt Soller and Angela Hau

    The artist’s studio that the architecture firm Worrell Yeung created for the painter Patrick McDonough and the florist Michael Burst in Springs on Long Island. The exterior is clad in black pine boards that become narrower as they ascend the structure.
    CreditAngela Hau
    other rooms

  3. Pablo Barba’s Carnival of the Grotesque

    Plus: fig leaf ice cream, a hotel in the hills of Majorca and more from T’s cultural compendium.

     

    The artist Pablo Barba, photographed in his Long Island City, Queens, studio in front of his painting “The Pizza Guy” (2023).
    CreditEric Chakeen
    People, Places, Things

  4. An Illustrator’s Paris Apartment That Couldn’t Be More Parisian

    On a secluded cobblestone alley lined with former craftsmen’s workshops, Marin Montagut makes a home steeped in the city’s creative history.

     By Nancy Hass and Ilyes Griyeb

    In the studio of the illustrator Marin Montagut’s Paris home, two antique lamp globes that he bought as a teenager, tarot cards tacked to a wall, a watercolor propped on a vintage chair and a black-and-white papier-mâché treasure chest of his own design.
    CreditIlyes Griyeb
    By Design

  5. A São Paulo Apartment Designed With Calculated Flaws

    In her home, the architect Mariana Schmidt combined handmade rural objects with textured and weathered materials to offer a new take on Brazilian minimalism.

     By Michael Snyder and Ruy Teixeira

    An installation by Brisa Noronha above a linen-covered sofa; a wooden armchair from Minas Gerais, where Schmidt grew up; and a Willy Guhl planter.
    CreditRuy Teixeira
    On Architecture

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