Papua New Guinea’s Lake Murray Lodge

The new-this-year hotel offers a very special experience in a remote location

by Jenny Miller Papua New Guinea’s Lake Murray Lodge—the newest property from PNG’s best-established tour operator and hotel group, Trans Niugini Tours—opened earlier this year and is located along the banks of the country’s largest lake. Its opening marked the advent of tourism in a new part of the Western Province; one of the most biodiverse regions of an extraordinarily biodiverse country. This makes the …

Studio Visit: Sculptor Matt Kinney

From his live/work space in Beacon, NY, the carpenter and artist creates wooden pieces that brilliantly trick the eye

by Janine M. Stankus In the sun-splayed parlor of his partially renovated 1850s home, Matt Kinney’s artwork mingles with tools of his craft. Paint buckets, sliced and with wood medallions at their mouths, lean beneath a bench strewn with chisels, rasps and mallets. In the corner, a burled axe gleams, nearly swallowed against the swirling camouflage of a matching maple stump. Kinney, a carpenter, creates …

I Feel Ya: Andre 3000 + SCAD at Art Basel Miami

The musician shares his inner-most thoughts to connect with an audience, hoping to inspire others to open up to each other

by Chérmelle D. Edwards “I feel ya,” a new exhibition with Savannah College of and Art Design (SCAD) and André 3000 Benjamin, made its Art Basel Miami debut exploring the intersection of three artistic disciplines: fashion, film and art within a digital-realism context. Using 47 jumpsuits worn by Benjamin during the OutKast 20th anniversary tour, the rapper’s words are a visual palette by which SCAD …