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Amid the sweet, folksy ballads (and many, many corn jokes) of “Shucked,” the new Broadway musical opening April 4, comes a soulful, commanding number performed by Alex Newell that provides the show...

The actor and singer Alex Newell on Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know.”

Visitors expecting shiny new things from the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s first design-focused exhibition will be in for a surprise. “Ai Weiwei: Making Sense,” which opens at London’s Design Museum on April...

Nestled at the foot of Runyon Canyon, in Los Angeles’s Hollywood Hills, the entrance to the Goldwyn House is suitably cinematic. Designed in 1916 by the American architect Arthur S. Heineman, who,...

IN 2020, THE artist Kiyan Williams began deep-frying American flags, first encasing small, souvenir-size Stars and Stripes in bubbled golden skin, then cooking a full-size nylon banner with paprika and flour. It...

IN 1900, about a month before dying, Oscar Wilde is rumored to have looked around his accommodations at the Hôtel d’Alsace, the derelict Parisian pension house where he spent his final days,...

The Russian-born architect and furniture designer shows T around his Parisian home.

FIVE YEARS AGO, at the San Telmo flea market in Buenos Aires, the New York-based interior designer Nicholas Obeid saw a midcentury chandelier in perforated red metal that he admired but didn’t...

In 1884, a 24-year-old Léon Breitling opened a workshop in the Swiss Jura town of Saint-Imier, where he began obtaining patents for chronometric instruments. His pioneering creations — which ranged from a...

The eternally useful furniture piece is available in new, unusually pleasing forms.