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A back "seam" drawn with an eyebrow pencil topped off the resourceful fashion effect
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Alain de Botton has provided a valuable service: giving reading prescriptions for a "shelf-help" approach to everyday problems
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Since the mid-1940s, models of perfection in designer clothes have graced Manhattan runways every autumn
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DNA 11, based in Ottawa, has built the first high-tech genetics laboratory devoted solely to art making
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The perfect back-to-school treat has a colorful past that once brought the wrath of an axe-wielding reformer
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They are more than just a haven for foodies -- markets are "fundamental building blocks of urban life"
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Our newest blog explores the fertile ground where art and science meet
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As hemlines rose, DuPont's wonder fabric was a sensation among women. But during WWII, it was needed for parachutes
Read the latest poem that was "inspired by a delight in design and pattern"
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Passionate to the point of obsessive about design, Steve Jobs insisted that his computers look perfect inside and out
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Look closely at these photographs. Shut down by the Chinese government, Liu Bolin has mastered the art of disappearing
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What does jalapeno-spiced polka music sound like?
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A new history blows the cover on British spies in World War II
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Age has not tempered the Dutch architect, who at 67 continues to shake up the cultural landscape with his provocative designs
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From its start in Massachusetts, of all places, to its inspiration of a John Waters film, the lawn ornament has some staying power
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Arrested and harassed by the Chinese government, artist Ai Weiwei makes daring works unlike anything the world has ever seen
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England’s most famous living novelist has moved to America—and tilted the literary world
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We just have to look to literature to learn that there’s always been a real danger to the prospect of being invisible
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