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If you’re new to the genre, this year’s 32nd edition of the Outsider Art Fair offers a crash course for only $35. (Last year’s tickets were $44.) From an unmissable Elijah Pierce sculpture of the crucifixion (Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, A5) to a spectacular mixed-media Thornton Dial painting (Andrew Edlin Gallery, A12), and from the artist and investigator Abigail Goldman’s “die-o-ramas” (Hashimoto Contemporary, C17) to the sinuous drawings of Shuvinai Ashoona and Quvianaqtuk Pudlat’s formidable colored pencil caribou (Feheley Fine Arts, B10), the event is well-stocked with classics and new additions alike.For those who’ve been to this party before, however, the chief joy of this often overwhelming fair, where many exhibitors cram their booths with work by a dozen artists and the quality rang...

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer lifeLive your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletterGwyneth Paltrow has described how she became involved in the wellness industry after her late father, Bruce Paltrow, was diagnosed with cancer.The 51-year-old actor - who founded her lifestyle brand, Goop, in 2008 - took to her Instagram Story on 29 February to open up about her father, who died in 2002 after a lengthy battled with throat cancer. During the Q&A session, she detailed how she got into wellness as Bruce’s cancer battle first started.“It was actually because my father was diagnosed with cancer when I was about 25 years old and that started to catalyse my foray into understanding food, environmental to...

At the end of May 2021, Ilana Madelya Maier received a tipsy call from Tyler Aldrich, asking: “If someone like Scott Berlin, but not Scott Berlin, but Scott Berlin asked you out, what would you say?” Ms. Maier replied, “I would need to get an invite for him to find out.”Mr. Aldrich was one of Scott Andrew Berlin’s colleagues and best friends. Mr. Aldrich, who worked with Mr. Berlin at Hamilton Campaign Network, a political campaign consulting firm, thought that Mr. Berlin and Ms. Maier would be a good match and decided to take matters into his own hands.Mr. Aldrich was assigned to Mark Levine’s borough president campaign as a consultant. Ms. Maier was Mark Levine’s campaign manager at the time, so she and Mr. Aldrich spoke frequently.Ms. Maier and Mr. Berlin had first connected earlier tha...

Since its February 2 premiere, the song has amassed 3.8 million views on YouTube and has found cross-border fame KARACHI: You might have heard it in Insta reels. In the backdrop of Rani Mukherjee flaunting a black saree. As a catchy companion to Ayushmann Khurrana’s recent photoshoot montage in an IG Story. And you must have definitely heard this tune if you inhabit the spontaneous corners of TikTok where all life needs a background score. Speaking from this virality standpoint, the sibling duo Aashir Wajahat and NAYEL’s Sadqay is already a success. A collaboration with Ijazat singer Nehaal Naseem, the roughly three-minute-long track dropped with a polished music video on YouTube on February 2. Since its release, Sadqay has collected an impressive 3.8 million eyeballs while climbing t...

Last Friday, the LA-based brand Reformation, best known for its silky, floral dresses, teased an image from a forthcoming workwear collection. The pictures on Instagram featured a woman with her back turned to the camera wearing a black pencil skirt, white shirt and pointy heels in an office overlooking a city skyline. “We’re giving you the power. With some help from a friend,” read the cryptic caption.Fast forward to Monday and that “friend” was unveiled as Monica Lewinsky. In the images, the writer and activist wears various pieces from the collection, including a cream trouser suit (from £298), a belted leather trench coat (£798) and cherry-red flared midi skirt with a matching sleeveless top (£298).But there’s more to the campaign than great silhouettes. With the US presidential electi...

Last year, the Guggenheim Museum displayed a major survey of the works of Gego, or Gertrud Goldschmidt, the German-born artist who fled to Venezuela when the Nazis took power. Living there until her death in 1994, the artist thrived, creating what The New York Times art critic Holland Cotter called “some of the most radically beautiful sculpture of the second half of the 20th century.”At the TriBeCa nonprofit gallery Apexart, the exhibition “Build what we hate. Destroy what we love,” heralds the rise of a reverse diasporic culture flowing from the South American country.Its three presenting artists, along with the curator Fabiola R. Delgado, belong to the nearly eight million Venezuelan refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers who have left the country in the past decade, according to the Un...

Richard Lewis, the stand-up comedian who first achieved fame in the 1970s and ’80s with his trademark acerbic, dark sense of humor, and who later parlayed that quality into an acting career that included movies like “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” and a recurring role as himself on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 76.His publicist, Jeff Abraham, said the cause was a heart attack. Mr. Lewis announced last year that he had Parkinson’s disease.Mr. Lewis was among the best-known names in a generation of comedians who came of age during the 1970s and ’80s, marked by a world-weary, sarcastic wit that mapped well onto the urban malaise in which many of them plied their trade.After finding success as a comedian in New York nightclubs, he became a regular...

Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releasesGet our food and drink newsletter for freePeople are weighing in on a debate between a restaurant owner and one of its potential customers who had to cancel their reservation.On X, formerly known as Twitter, a man named Trevor Chauvin-DeCaro recently posted a thread regarding a $250 cancellation fee he had attempted to dispute from Table restaurant in Boston. “Wild story incoming. Last month, we had to cancel our Boston trip after I was hospitalised. As a result I had to use travel insurance to get my money back on our hotel, train, and restaurant reservations. Today I got this message from @tableboston,” his thread began.During the process of attempting to get his money back from the trip, he rec...

Bruce Newman, a New York antiques dealer once known as the Cecil B. DeMille of his profession for his outsized personality and extravagant wares, died on Feb. 9 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 94.The cause was congestive heart failure, according to his daughter, Emily Greenspan.Mr. Newman, a dashing figure in impeccably tailored black suits and scarlet pocket squares, was the proprietor of his family’s business, Newel Galleries, which was founded during the 1930s as a prop house for theater and film productions and ran for a time out of a small shop under the Second Avenue El in Manhattan.During his reign, Newel was in full, overwhelming flower by the 1980s, housed in a five-story building on East 53rd Street, near the East River, each floor teeming with two centuries’ worth of...