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The cookbook author, historian and magazine editor is the first Black woman to receive the honor and will use the grant to fund a mentorship program.

Christine Nunn knew something was terribly wrong. There she stood, on a sidewalk with her dog on a leash, frantically sniffing a poop bag. "I tried so hard to smell it, but got nothing," said Nunn of Fair Lawn. Nunn was aware what this likely meant: she had caught COVID-19.  She ran home and grabbed the coffee beans she keeps in her freezer — and inhaled deeply again and again. No earthy aroma, no herbaceous scent, no smell whatsoever.  She dashed to her bathroom and stuck her nose into a container of Vic's VapoRub, a topical cough-suppressant ointment known well for its strong ...

Friday at Frieze New York Digital talks, screenings and highlights from Frieze New York's programming Begin the day by browsing Frieze Viewing Room. Accessible from anywhere in the world and connecting you to the best of contemporary art. Explore virtual booths by galleries from all around the world, including a solo presentation of Esther Pearl Watson (Vielmetter Los Angeles), works by Chinese artist  Ding Yi (Timothy Taylor) and Helina Metaferia (Addis Fine Art); murals by Victoria Lomasko (Edel Assanti), ceramics by  Erin Jane Nelson (Chapter NY), alongside many ot...

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Martín Uribe After a period of widespread financial instability in the 1980s and 1990s, mostly concentrated among commodity exporters, only a handful of developing countries have been hit by systemic banking crises over the past two decades. Several factors have contributed to this state of affairs, including an extended period of sustained economic growth, financial deepening, and favourable external conditions, most notably a protracted period of stable and high commodity prices. Figure 1 shows that banking crises in low-income countries are clustered between the l...

We talk with Toni Tipton-Martin, a James Beard award winner about her cookbook “Jubilee Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking."