“The Dinner Party,” a triangular table set for 39 singular women – Virginia Woolf, Sojourner Truth, and Georgia O’Keeffe among them – with the names of nearly a thousand others on the floor around it, in porcelain and needlework, has a spiritual, “Last Supper” quality, intentionally. “I wanted to substitute …
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Artist Eric Regier often finds himself immersed in his art. Regier, who professionally goes by the name HotTea, is the creator of an eye-catching sight on New Jersey’s Asbury Park Boardwalk, an immersive, 100-foot-long art installation made up entirely of colorful yarn. “It’s rainbow-esque,” he said. “It’s actually supposed to …
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Yusef Salaam. Antron McCray. Raymond Santana. Korey Wise. Kevin Richardson. Five men connected in a way few of us could ever imagine. Santana said there is never a time when he doesn’t think about the episode that brought them together: “It’s every day. Constantly.” Salaam said that every day it’s …
Read More »CBS News and Simon & Schuster announced on Tuesday a joint podcast/book project by popular “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca. His long love of obituaries has led him to “Mobituaries,” an irreverent but deeply-researched appreciation of the people (and things) of the past who have …
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It looks easy when Edmund de Waal does it, forming in the language of his fingers a kind of tactile poetry. “There’s this lovely feeling for me of the sort of breathing vessel, which is changing all the time,” he said. “What I’m doing is making a space, making a …
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