What a surprise we were in for. We planned our trip to Minorca/Menorca around opening day at Hauser & Wirth, wanting to see the gallery
Why are we drawn to the primal force of falling water? To waterfalls cascading in continuous motion, ceaseless renewal, perpetual reshaping? The ancient Greeks philosophized
Readers, you know we love Marfa, the quirky town in West Texas sixty miles from the Mexican border, Marfa, where artists and ranchers, shopkeepers and
Cynara cardunculus, carduus, kaktos, carchofas, arḍī shawkī, al-kharshūfa, ḥarshafa, alcarchofa, carciofo, articiocco, artichaud, hartichoak—Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Italian: so many ancient names for artichokes, going back
Don’t take our word for it. Beginning in 1935, German-born Josef Albers, one of the most influential twentieth-century artists and teachers, travelled to Mexico—fourteen times.
How have you been celebrating the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables? Ha! If you’re like us, you didn’t know the United Nations declared such
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