Learning Resilience from a Master
The last ten years of Henri Matisse’s were far from what most of us would think of as joyful. His marriage was over, he was diagnosed with cancer and underwent a number of painful...
What is the World’s Most Wanted Painting?
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus? Monet’s Water Lilies? Munch’s The Scream? Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring?
It turns out none of the above. Two digital artists, Vitalyl Komar and Alex Melamid, conducted a number of...
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
This elegant and quick read doesn’t claim to be a biography about Marie-Antoinette, but rather focuses brilliantly on the clothing choices she and her handlers made at every juncture in her tenure as Dauphine,...
A Psychiatrist Weighs In: Can A Good Outfit Affect Your Mental Health?
For many women, the pursuit of looking good feels like an indulgence — and most of the time, in the bad kind of way. But we disagree. As Dr. Samantha Boardman discusses with Christene...
The Things that Matter
The comedian George Carlin once said,
A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
Nate Berkus couldn’t disagree more.
In his book, The Things That Matter, Berkus...