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Still from Fruit of Paradise (1970)
Stage

Profile: Leslie Travers

Leslie Travers’ set design for Francesca da Rimini at Teatro alla Scala, winner of the 2019 Franco Abbiati Award for Best Set Design.

Award-winning stage designer Leslie Travers on instinct, cultural exchange, letting go of ideas, and why design is ultimately “emotional architecture.”
Madina Tulakova Leslie Travers
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Recent Notes

EElliott Erwitt

In Elliott Erwitt’s photograph of the 1988 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, an enormous Snoopy drifts past a Manhattan window. The girls are Erwitt’s daughters, Sasha and Amy, photographed at his... Archival Photos.

The Spinning Room

Dream #34

Art & Design

Profile: Adrianne Rubenstein

Floating Fruit, 2026, oil on canvas, 60 × 72”

Painter Adrianne Rubenstein on humor, Canadian landscapes, and self-discovery.
John White Adrianne Rubenstein
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Art & Design

The Non-Tourist’s Guide to Florence, with Filippo Fargna and Kim Jansch

James Duffield Harding, Ponte Santa Trinità, Florence, before 1832. Watercolor. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain.

A guide to Florence through Casa G. Hotel Firenze, local artisans, old institutions, and the city’s quieter forms of belonging.
Madina Tulakova Kim Jansch Filippo Montani Fargna
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Art & Design

Auctions and the Psychology of Collecting

Paul Signac, La Salute (Venise), 1906. Sold at Koller in Zurich on 26 June 2026 for about $4.4 million.

Koller’s Karl Green discusses how taste, timing, and desire shape the auction world.
Madina Tulakova Karl Green
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Film

Fun City Editions: The Joy of Rescuing Forgotten Films

Goodbye, Columbus (1969)

A conversation with Jonathan Hertzberg on rescuing overlooked films, physical media, and the second lives of great neglected movies.
Jonathan Hertzberg John White
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