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    1. The Artists for Whom It Was Never Too Late

      Six people, from Lorraine O’Grady to Wallace Stevens, who found a new creative calling – or received long-overdue recognition — later in life.

       By Jason Chen

      CreditCourtesy of Tabboo! and Karma

    2. What to Do When You Can’t Figure Out How to Draw Anthony Fauci’s Glasses?

      Advice on quashing doubt and maximizing procrastination, according to Joan Baez, Kim Gordon, Bill T. Jones and Myha’la.

       Interviews by Kate Guadagnino

      CreditClockwise, from top left: Laura Levine/Corbis via Getty Images; Catherine McGann/Getty Images; Amanda Searle/HBO; David Redfern/Redferns via Getty Images

    3. When Jane Fonda Met Lily Tomlin

      Longtime collaborators on how their partnerships formed and why they’ve endured.

       Interviews by Ella Riley-Adams, Nick Haramis, Nicole Acheampong, Julia Halperin and Coco Romack

      CreditKanya Iwana

  1. What Jon Bon Jovi Did After Losing His Voice

    Seven artists on the challenges and joys of starting over, sometimes in a totally new field.

     Interviews by Michael Snyder, M.H. Miller and Emily Lordi

    Bon Jovi, 62, photographed at his restaurant JBJ Soul Kitchen in Red Bank, N.J., on March 1, 2024.
    CreditSebastian Sabal-Bruce

  2. Tracy Chapman, Stephen King and Chloë Sevigny on Their Debuts

    Musicians, writers and others revisit the work that started it all for them, and what (if anything) they might have done differently.

     Interviews by Lovia Gyarkye and Nicole Acheampong

    Chapman with the producer David Kershenbaum at a Los Angeles recording studio in 1987. The musician’s debut album will be reissued on vinyl this summer to mark its 35th anniversary.
    CreditLester Cohen/Getty Images

  3. How to Begin a Creative Life

    We spoke to 150 artists, some planning retrospectives and others making their debut, to ask about the process of starting something.

     

    CreditShikeith

  4. The Artists Who Stopped What They’d Started

    From Ralph Ellison to Harper Lee, those who made great work in one field — before their creative lives went in a different direction.

     By John Wogan and M.H. Miller

    The former fashion designer Miguel Adrover, now a full-time photographer, photographed at home on Majorca, Spain, on Jan. 8, 2024.
    CreditCatarina Osório de Castro

  5. Why All Artists Remain Perpetual Beginners

    It takes courage to start. And far more to continue.

     By Aatish Taseer

    “Vanitas Still Life” (circa 1665-70) by Jan van Kessel the Elder, who was from a long line of celebrated Flemish painters — Pieter Bruegel the Elder was his great-grandfather — and was perhaps destined to be an artist.
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  1. The 10 Best Things We Saw at Salone del Mobile

    From an exhibition in a 1940s-era Modernist house to a blood-red sofa, the highlights of Milan’s annual design fair.

     By Monica Khemsurov

    A Mario Bellini for Tacchini Le Mura sofa remade in Gucci’s new signature shade of red, Ancora Rosso, on view in the fashion brand’s Milan flagship store.
    CreditCourtesy of Gucci

  2. What 80 Artists, Musicians and Writers Are Starting Right Now

    Boots Riley, Earl Sweatshirt, Jennifer Egan, Amaarae and more tell us about their new projects.

     Interviews by Kate Guadagnino

    CreditCourtesy of Joseph Dirand Architecture

  3. Six Artists Look Back at Work They Made in Their Youth

    Marina Abramović, David Henry Hwang and others reveal their juvenalia.

     Interviews by Julia Halperin, Kate Guadagnino and Juan A. Ramírez

    CreditCourtesy of Do Ho Suh © Do Ho Suh

  4. A First Album, a First Restaurant, a First Time on Broadway: Ten Debuts Happening Right Now

    This season’s beginners, from Ice Spice to Tyla to Sarah Pidgeon.

     Interviews by Juan A. Ramírez and Emily Lordi

    Ice Spice wears a Balenciaga jacket, $2,150, balenciaga.com; Norma Kamali dress, $350, normakamali.com; Graff cross necklace, $14,000, graff.com; Alexander McQueen shoes, $1,150, alexandermcqueen.com; stylist’s own tights; and her own jewelry. Photographed at a private home in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2024.
    CreditPhotograph by Shikeith. Styled by Ian Bradley

  5. From Debuts to Do-Overs, What It Means to Become an Artist — At Any Age

    T’s Culture issue looks at the many ways to begin.

     By Hanya Yanagihara

    CreditShikeith
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  1. Two Artists Make a Home for Their Family, and Their Collection

    Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian have transformed their New York townhouse into a showplace for creativity.

     By Max Berlinger and Stefan Ruiz

    CreditStefan Ruiz

  2. In Japan, a Place for a Famous Artistic Director to Hide by the Sea

    The designer and record producer Nigo has built a minimalist retreat where the Pacific Ocean itself is practically an architectural feature.

     By Kurt Soller and Anu Kumar

    The open-concept living room at the artistic director Nigo’s seaside home in Japan frames a view of the Pacific Ocean and features dining and lounge chairs by Pierre Jeanneret and a coffee table by Isamu Noguchi.
    CreditAnu Kumar

  3. A Filmmaker Needed a Quiet Place to Write. Where Better Than a Tuscan Villa?

    Albert Moya has optimized his apartment, part of a 14th-century estate in the hills of Florence, for work and lounging.

     By Kurt Soller and Ricardo Labougle

    Moya and Santomà created separate spaces in the multipurpose living room — one area for lounging, one for editing films and, upstairs, an area for working out.
    CreditRicardo Labougle

  4. For Two Color-Obsessed Artists, a White-Walled Home

    Out on Long Island, Stanley Whitney and Marina Adams hired a pair of designers to create a house and studio complex that celebrates — and encourages — the painters’ imagination.

     By Alice Newell-Hanson and Simon Watson

    In the living area, a custom stereo and (from left) an oil panting by Whitney, a Seydou Keïta photograph and works on paper by Bob Thompson.
    CreditSimon Watson

  5. Missing the Gay Best Friend

    In film and on TV, he was a sign of cultural progress. Then he was a tired stereotype. Then he disappeared. So why do we want him back?

     By Mark Harris and RF. Alvarez

    To accompany this essay, the painter RF. Alvarez, who’s based in Austin, Texas, created two works exclusively for T, including “A Bit of Gossip” (2023). “My mind immediately went to a photograph I took of my husband giggling with his best friend,” the artist says. “I cast them in dramatic, colorful lighting and, of course, had to give them some martinis.”
    CreditRF. Alvarez

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  1. The 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture From the Last 100 Years

    Three designers, a museum curator, an artist and a design-savvy actress convened at The New York Times to make a list of the most enduring and significant objects for living.

     By Nick Haramis, Max Berlinger, Rose Courteau, Kate Guadagnino, Max Lakin and Evan Moffitt

    CreditClockwise, from top left: Valentin Jeck; courtesy of Bukowskis; courtesy of Zanotta SpA - Italy; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh/Art Resource, NY © ARS, NY; Ellen McDermott © Smithsonian Institution; Herman Miller Archives; Vitra

  2. The 25 Essential Dishes to Eat in Mexico City

    We asked five chefs and other food-obsessed locals to debate the most memorable plates (and snacks and beverages) in the capital.

     By Deborah Dunn, Cristina Alonso, Dudley Althaus, Mariana Camacho, Lydia Carey, Liliana López Sorzano, Michael Snyder, Laura Tillman, Jorge Valencia and Mariano Fernandez

    CreditMariano Fernandez

  3. The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature

    Six opinionated writers debate — and define — the state of L.G.B.T.Q. writing in order to make a list of the most essential works of fiction, poetry and drama right now.

     By Kurt Soller, Liz Brown, Rose Courteau, Kate Guadagnino, Sara Holdren, Brian Keith Jackson, Evan Moffitt, Miguel Morales, Tomi Obaro, Coco Romack, Michael Snyder and June Thomas

    CreditCockwise from left: Clifford Prince King’s “Lovers in a Field” (2019), courtesy of the artist; © Maika Elan; Melody Melamed’s “Elva” (2021), courtesy of the artist; Lyle Ashton Harris’s “M. Lamar, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, 1993” (2015), courtesy of the artist and Salon 94

  4. The 25 Essential Dishes to Eat in Paris

    We asked five chefs and culinary experts to determine the most delicious and memorable plates in the food-obsessed French capital. Here are the results.

     By Kurt Soller, Sara Lieberman, Katherine McGrath, Zoey Poll, Lindsey Tramuta and Thibault Montamat

    CreditThibault Montamat

  5. T’s 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture From the Last 100 Years: Everything We Considered

    From a Marcel Breuer chair to Metro shelving, all the nominated objects.

     By Nick Haramis

    CreditSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Bridgeman Images. Donald Judd Furniture © 2024 Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  1. The Dragon-Shaped Japanese Region Where Tokyo Locals Go to Unwind

    A guide to Kagoshima, home to traditional pottery villages and the forest that inspired “Princess Mononoke.”

     By Mihoko Iida, Josh Robenstone and Richard Pedaline

    A lounge at GuestHouse Carapan in Kagoshima City, Japan, looks across to the Sakurajima volcano in Kagoshima Bay.
    CreditJosh Robenstone

  2. What to See, Eat and Buy in Tangier, Morocco’s Cultural Magnet

    Four insiders on where to go for rooftop drinks, treasure hunting and more.

     By Tara Stevens and Richard Pedaline

    From left: Rmilat Forest above Agla, Cap Spartel, about nine miles from downtown Tangier; a view of the medina.
    CreditDavid Fernandez

  3. A Guide to Guadalajara, Mexico’s City of Makers

    Steeped in cultural heritage, the capital of Jalisco is drawing a new wave of artists.

     By Michael Snyder and Richard Pedaline

    From left: Cerámica Suro, José Noé Suro’s studio; Impronta, a local publishing house that still prints with letterpress machines.
    CreditMariano Fernandez

  4. What to See, Eat and Buy in Porto, Portugal’s Creative Hub

    Four insiders share their favorite spots, from old-school seafood restaurants to ceramics studios.

     By Sara Clemence and Richard Pedaline

    Left: in the Bonfim neighborhood, known for its varied architecture and small shops. Right: Serralves Park, which houses the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.
    CreditRicardo Gonçalves

  5. A Local’s Guide to Portland, Maine and Beyond

    Artists have always been drawn to the state’s rocky coast and fragrant pine forests. Now that same creative spirit is fueling changes in and around the city.

     By Jessica Battilana and Richard Pedaline

    Chebeague Island Inn, a 90-minute ferry ride from Portland, Maine.
    CreditGreta Rybus
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    A Beloved Copenhagen Cafe Gets Serious About Dinner

    The chef Frederik Bille Brahe has transformed the Apollo Bar & Kantine into his version of a fine dining restaurant, and celebrated with a meal for his family and collaborators.

    By Gisela Williams

     
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