American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries who wanted to study lighting and flourishes by Spanish Old Masters set out for one destination: The Prado Museum in Madrid. “It held the Spanish Royal Collection,” says Corey Piper, the Brock Curator of American Art at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk,...
When African American folk artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson died in May 2015, she left her house and all its contents to the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. Little did the museum curators know what they would find inside. “She was born in Columbus in 1940 and knew she wanted to be an artist […]
Now that “The Queen’s Gambit” on Netflix has sent chess set sales soaring into the stratosphere, it’s time to take a look back at an early post on A+A. It featured one of the world’s most intriguing board games, once owned by two of history’s most intriguing men: Before...
So what do you do when a pandemic shuts down your five-star resort hotel on Hawaii’s Big Island? If you’re the Four Seasons Hualalai, you upgrade your plans for renovating your revered Jack Nicklaus golf course, designed in 1996 to overlook the Pacific. “Originally we were going to do the greens...
A holiday gift arrived early for the team that won a competition to expand and enhance the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Last week, the hall announced that Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), James Corner Field Operations, Cooper Robertson and L’Observatoire International...
Three hours by air from New York City, the Turks & Caicos is the hottest destination in the Caribbean today. Up until now, it’s been dominated by hotels and condos, not high-end second homes. That’s about to change, as construction begins in April at The Strand. “I found this property on the south...
In a virtual era dominated by Zoom, Twitter, and TikTok, a design firm called Roto is breathing real-world fun into public spaces. Since 2004, they’ve been creating unique experiences for museums, zoos, aquariums, attractions and brand destinations for clients worldwide. Kids’ museums are a specialty...
Susurros del Corazón is a residential development that overlooks Mexico’s Bay of Banderas, between Puerto Vallarta and the surfer town of Sayulita. There, at Punta de Mita, developer Mark Cooley is putting the finishing touches on a series of villas and condos that cascade down a six-degree slope...
A sidebar to today’s architecture column in The News & Observer in Raleigh focuses on the Black woman who is the undisputed leader in the North Carolina Triangle’s African American design community. A gifted architect who injects the essence of culture into every project she tackles, she’s...
For the past six months or so, I’ve been researching and interviewing a number of African American architects in the Triangle area of North Carolina, for my architecture column in the News & Observer in Raleigh. Over the past five years, I’ve written about Julian Abele’s breath-taking...
