July 2026

While European jewelry houses were shaped by royal courts, aristocratic patronage and centuries of tradition, American jewelers emerged from a culture of entrepreneurship, industrial innovation and self-made wealth. The result was a distinct American style—bold, technically innovative, gemstone-driven and often less constrained by convention. Beginning in the 19th Century, firms including Tiffany & Co., Marcus

There’s an immense confidence to Rachel Rose’s understated drama The Last Day, the kind of deftness often born of cross-disciplinary artistry. The movie marks her feature debut, but it shares its title with one of Rose’s many video installations—specifically, one that captures Earth’s epochs through photographs of objects around her daughter’s bedroom. On the surface,

The Monastery of San Marco in Florence was originally established in the 13th Century; the monks’ cells of the convent were decorated by Fra Angelico in the 1440s. Each small cell has a single window oriented away from direct sunlight. The diffused, soft light was specifically designed for meditation and prayer. Each cell is adorned

When Abigail Cowen was auditioning for the role of Delilah Mason in the onscreen adaptation of Carley Fortune’s bestselling novel, Every Summer After, she didn’t actually know what she was auditioning for. “They had the show under a code name, and it wasn’t until we went in for the last read with all of the

A kid from the Bronx once pressed his face to a department-store window, memorizing how Fred Astaire knotted a tie and how Cary Grant wore tweed. That kid was Ralph Lifshitz, born in October 1939 to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Belarus, and the world he could only watch through glass became the one he sold