How to Bring Nature Inside With the Right Houseplants
It’s no surprise that greenery has gained popularity during the pandemic. Here’s how to make the most of it at home.
“I always suggest people cluster plants for maximum impact,” said Eliza Blank, the chief executive of the houseplant retailer The Sill, who said her company’s sales have skyrocketed over the past year.Credit.Courtesy of The Sill
March 2, 2021
Spending more time inside has accelerated any number of trends that existed before the pandemic, including bingeing of allkinds. But here’s one that’s actually good for you: Bringing nature indoors.
Palace Intrigue at the Louvre, as a Paint Job Leads to a Lawsuit
The Cy Twombly Foundation is taking the Paris museum to court over a renovation it calls an “aberration.” The timing of the dispute has raised suspicions.
The newly repainted Salle des Bronzes in the Louvre. The museum is being renovated while it is closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.Credit.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times
Published March 5, 2021Updated March 12, 2021
PARIS In the midst of a pandemic, with empty galleries, shuttered doors and plunging revenues, the Louvre faces new turbulence: a legal fight over the color of its walls.
Lightning Strikes Twice: Another Lost Jacob Lawrence Surfaces
Its owner, a nurse living on the Upper West Side, flagged a worker at the Metropolitan Museum’s information desk. “Listen, nobody calls me back. I have this painting. Who do I need to talk to?”
Ralph Augsburger, a conservator at ArtCare Conservation, with the long-missing Panel 28 from Jacob Lawrence’s series “Struggle: From the History of the American People.” It will join an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum later this week.Credit.The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Amr Alfiky/The New York Times
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“Progress of Love” panels from the Fragonard Room at the Frick Mansion were transported to the Breuer building and illuminated by the trapezoidal window.Credit.Gus Powell for The New York Times
The Frick Savors the Opulence of Emptiness
No barriers. No texts. No heavy gold fabric. At the museum’s two-year sublet of the Breuer building on Madison Avenue, it’s just you and the masters.
“Progress of Love” panels from the Fragonard Room at the Frick Mansion were transported to the Breuer building and illuminated by the trapezoidal window.Credit.Gus Powell for The New York Times
University Finds 18th-Century Schoolhouse Where Black Children Learned to Read
The Bray School, which taught Christianity and reading to free and enslaved Black children, was found tucked inside a campus building at William & Mary in Virginia.
An early-1900s photo of the building that once housed the Bray School.Credit.William & Mary
Feb. 26, 2021
For years, academics and researchers at William & Mary, a university in Virginia, had known about the Bray School, where Black children, free and enslaved, were taught to read from 1760 to 1774. But no one had ever found the school.
Until last year, that is. In June, workers tore open the walls of what had been believed to be an early-20th-century building on campus and found timber that had been harvested in 1759.