From Brits to Belgians, they reworked motifs from America’s pioneer past—handmade quilts, fringed suede and bandana prints—for women who dwell far away from where the buffalo roam.
Magazine - Culture
How Anni and Josef Albers Became 21st Century Art Stars
A crop of major shows celebrating the modernest pioneers is coming to Europe and New York.
WSJ. Magazine
Hanging Out With Jared Leto
An Oscar-winning actor who is also a tech entrepreneur, stadium-filling rock star, fashion icon and successful Silicon Valley investor? Welcome to the high-flying life of Jared Leto.
Gear & Gadgets
The Family-Friendly Private Jet Takes Off
Forget the minivan. A new class of small, easy-to-pilot airplane, with seating for up to six, is letting travelers zoom to vacation hot spots in record time.
Off Duty Travel
Why Oslo Has Become a Foodie Haven
Meet the Oslo-based chefs who are turning the city’s once-middling culinary scene into an epicurean feeding frenzy.
As the label’s cofounder Marcus Wainwright strikes out on his own, he continues his career-long quest to challenge and expand our understanding of what constitutes fashion
Film Review
Seismic Rumble in the Rockies
Volvo
The Volvo XC60 is an appealing lifestyle appliance with a whispering strength and vital modernity. The only problem? It’s not easy to get.
Off Duty Travel
Resort Activities With Bragging Rights
For an invigorating vacation, these luxury resorts in the U.S. and the Caribbean offer much more daring diversions than the same-old golf and tennis. Tomahawk, anyone?
Inspired designers are reviving the old-fashioned practice of upholstering chairs, ottomans and more with Oriental rugs, minus the Victorian fustiness.
Food & Drink
2017’s Best Cheeses in America: It’s Official
These American Cheese Society award winners are the cheeses all the mongers are mad for this season—plus the early word on what’s next.
Follow @WSJLife
Sign Up for Life & Arts Newsletters and Alerts
Latest from Life and Arts
In 18-hour PBS series ‘The Vietnam War,’ Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ask American and Vietnamese vets to share their experiences
Masterpiece
An Exalted Personage Made Wholly Accessible
In Boston, a bodhisattva who assists others in their spiritual journey.
At the Met, a 1,000-year journey that begins at the birth of realism and, roughly speaking, the landscape tradition’s genesis as an independent subject.
Bookshelf
Five Best: Johanna Neuman
The author of “Gilded Suffragists” on the fight for women’s suffrage
Bookshelf
The Best New Mysteries
Tom Nolan on the latest adventure of Lisbeth Salander.
Bookshelf
The Best New Children’s Books
Meghan Cox Gurdon on “His Royal Highness, King Baby” and other books.
Bookshelf
Home Cooking’s Next Act
Goodbye, cold roast chicken. Hello, flavorful dishes from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Barry Estabrook reviews “Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street.”
Bookshelf
The Word From Strawberry Hill
The 18th-century wit’s most penetrating letters, with the uncharitable parts restored. Brooke Allen reviews “Horace Walpole: Selected Letters” edited by Stephen Clarke.
Bookshelf
The Best New Fiction
Sam Sacks on Nicole Krauss’s “Forest Dark” and Nathan Englander’s “Dinner at the Center of the Earth.”
Bookshelf
The Jewel in the Crown
How a diamond “the size of a hen’s egg” journeyed from the Punjab to Persia to Afghanistan to London. Henrik Bering reviews “Koh-i-Noor” by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand.
Load More
