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The chef and artist Laila Gohar moved to New York City 10 years ago, but it was only recently that she began to feel a longing for home. Gohar was born and raised in Cairo — where winters are mild, and summers come hot and quick — and makes a living creating interactive installations at fashion and art events (imagine, for example, cracking open a salt-baked pear with a wooden mallet at the recent Object & Thing design fair). Though she and her husband, Omar Sosa, one of the Barcelona-born co-founders of Apartamento magazine, have made a home for themselves in a cozy third-floor apartment on Spring Street in Manhattan, Gohar admits she still feels “very much like a foreigner” in the United States. Which is why, on a recent evening, she assembled some of her closest friends — including the fashion designer Maryam Nassir Zadeh, the actor and director Hailey Gates and the creative director Rafael Prieto — for dinner to celebrate an Egyptian holiday … [Read more...] about How to Throw a Celebratory Spring Dinner Party

Six years ago, the California-born artist Christine Sun Kim, 39, moved from New York City’s Chinatown to Berlin. “I fell in love,” she explains. Her eyes widen and brows lift as she signs, “I’m actually not a big fan of making these big moves for love. But it worked out really well for me.” After earning two M.F.A.s — from the School of Visual Arts and Bard College — and finding a foothold in New York, it was time to find a different way to practice. In transgressive textual drawings, videos and participatory performances, Kim visualizes sounds and distills spoken language into clever new forms. She was selected for the 2013 MoMA show “Soundings,” the museum’s first exhibition dedicated to sound art, and she has become known for her powerful works that demonstrate the possibilities of sound as an artistic medium (her 2015 TED Talk about the similarities between music and sign language currently has over one and a half … [Read more...] about An Artist Who Channels Her Anger Into Pie Charts

Since its establishment in 1895, the Venice Biennale has served as a bellwether for the international art community. Spread across the Arsenale, a former shipyard, and the Giardini, a meandering garden anchored by a central pavilion — the biannual event centers on a main showcase helmed by a single curator and features a set of national commissions, which occupy the pavilions that can be found within the two venues and sometimes in palazzos farther afield. For this year’s edition, Ralph Rugoff, the director of London’s Hayward Gallery, was invited to curate the main space with an exhibition titled “May You Live in Interesting Times,” which hints at the forward-thinking artists included within. Across the city, artists took on a wide array of subjects, such as climate change, identity politics and technology’s changing role in our lives. We combed through the offerings to round up several themes — and things worth seeing — throughout the … [Read more...] about What to See at the Venice Biennale

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In 2011, upon visiting Taavo Somer’s erstwhile Brooklyn restaurant Isa, the New York Times critic Eric Asimov wrote that he “couldn’t help noticing many people eating a few small plates, or sharing a main course.” He wondered, “Is this really how people want to eat nowadays?” Sharing food has been both a boon and a boogeyman to the restaurant industry since the 1980s, when “grazing” restaurants such as the Casual Quilted Giraffe thrived in Manhattan. Spanish-inspired tapas were chic in the ’90s, and then came Chinese and Middle Eastern restaurants that were — and always will be — meant for family-style eating. Asimov wasn’t the first to bemoan sharing, but his inquiry presaged a decade in New York dominated by a new type of cuisine, one defined less by provenance or a chef’s palate than by the way it was meant to be consumed, with each diner taking a single bite before relinquishing the plate. At Estela, … [Read more...] about At Restaurants, Thank You for Not Sharing