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THE ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATOR Alaa el-Habashi had been restoring a 190-room 15th-century palace for years in the historic Cairo neighborhood of al-Darb al-Ahmar when, in 2007, he and his engineer wife, Ola Said,...

Micaela Diamond once thought she might make a good cantor. The 23-year-old actor loved singing with the congregation at the conservative synagogue she attended as a child in Margate, N.J., just outside...

The actor and singer on Joni Mitchell’s “Cactus Tree.”

High volume, surreal silhouettes and out-of-this-world materials define a new wave of over-the-top evening wear.

In 1979, as Margaret Thatcher came to power, a collective of young Black artists based in the British West Midlands founded the Blk Art Group. Their goal was to amplify Black voices,...

Fifty years ago, when college courses in Black American literature were rare; when Zora Neale Hurston’s novels were out of print and Toni Morrison was a book editor with one novel to...

Iman Nasser, a 22-year-old author from Youngstown, Ohio, has made a remarkable mark in the literary world by writing 30 books at such a young age. But his aspirations go beyond just...

In the late 1800s, a teenage Guccio Gucci left Florence, Italy, and headed off to London, where he found work as a porter at the Savoy Hotel. Fascinated with the lifestyles of...

Every artist hopes for two things: that their work will be appreciated in their lifetime. And that it’ll endure after their death.That second hope is embarrassing for some artists to admit, but...

This is a portrait of me (at top) in Naxos, Greece, taken by my partner last summer. We’ve been going to the same area for 10 years, and we eat at the...