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Newyork
How Female Bodybuilders Became Fashion’s Latest Muses
When fashion designers, as they often do, allude to women’s strength as an inspiration for the clothes they make, they tend to have in mind their customers’ emotional resilience rather than their bench-pressing prowess. But on the runway at the New ...
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Newyork
Is 2,000 Bags Too Many?
For the visual artist Pipilotti Rist, her collection is what happens “when a 60-something-year-old Central European woman doesn’t throw anything away.”
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World
London Bids Farewell, for Now, to a Beloved, Overstuffed Walrus
A taxidermy gallery known for its bulky centerpiece is closing for a two-year renovation.
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Newyork
A Bag That Melds the ’60s, the ’90s and Today
A new accessory from Michael Kors reinterprets an archival giraffe print.
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Science
Duke Shuts Down Huge Plant Collection, Causing Scientific Uproar
University officials say they cannot afford to maintain one of the largest herbariums in the United States. Researchers are urging Duke to reconsider.
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Ellen Gilchrist, Writer With an Eye on the South’s Foibles, Dies at 88
In her novels and story collections, she took a sharp, lightly ironic look at the class from which she came, the Southern upper bourgeoisie.
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Books
Elton John’s First Auction in 21 Years Has It All: Boots to Banksy.
Elton John is downsizing — and the superstar’s former penthouse residence in Atlanta has been emptied for a series of auctions at Christie’s starting on Feb. 21. The items are expected to bring in an estimated $10 million. Want the Yamaha ...
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Books
Brooklyn Museum, Courting Pop-Culture Icons, Readies for Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz
Next month, over 100 works by Black art stars from the couple’s collection will travel to the Great Hall for “Giants.”
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World
Need a Home for 80,000 Puzzles? Try an Italian Castle.
Meet the Millers, George and Roxanne, proprietors of the world’s largest collection of mechanical puzzles: physical objects that a puzzler holds and manipulates while seeking a solution. In total, the Miller collection — an accumulation of ...
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World
The Good. The Bad. The Ugly. Inside Berlusconi’s Art Collection.
The Italian media mogul bought up some 25,000 paintings, many on TV shopping binges, before he died this year. Now no one knows what to do with them.
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