Eight Sexy Valentine’s Day Cocktails

Various spirit concoctions perfect for a day of love and spice

While making no promises about love potions or secret tonics, what we can guarantee is the quality of taste in the following eight drinks. Made with care and concern, they exemplify many ideals surrounding the holiday of love: spice, smoke and flavor. Whether you prefer a vodka or rum, or venture into the worlds of mezcal and pisco, there’s something here to warm the heart …

Looking at Painting Volume 1

A beautiful journal exploring art and the ideas behind it

Across the 96 pages within the softcover “Looking at Painting Volume 1” arts journal, editor and designer Jessie Churchill (who also happens to be a fine artist) probes the expanding visual landscape of painting today. With care and thought, painting—under a broader definition—is presented and analyzed. The journal also features a hand-painted editor’s note and two exclusive artworks on paper, inserted within and commissioned solely …

Studio Visit: Photographer Jill Greenberg

Inside the workspace of the celebrated artist, whose upcoming gallery showcase blurs painting and photography

On the fifth floor of a joint residential/workspace building in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, photographer Jill Greenberg set up shop back in 1997. While she would leave in 2000 for the West Coast, 12 years later she returned and the studio itself has had a resounding impact on her latest gallery show “Paintings.” We’ve been following Greenberg for years now, but this latest crop of calculated …