With a multi-disciplinary artistic practice that embraces the high, low and in-between, Lyndon Barrois Jr. is a scavenger of form, a taxonomist of cool.
Read More"There’s just so much that creates inspiration, and there are always new things to learn. Right now, I’m really drawn to home cooking: traditional, ethnic home cooking, things that restaurants don’t do."
Read MoreElegant, artistic pieces from the heartland.
Read More“All of a sudden it was like, bam: motherhood and entrepreneurship. They ran into each other straight from the get-go. It’s always been a juggling act, but I love that [my daughter's] grown up literally surrounded by all this.”
Read MoreWatch to be sated. The brain nestsa splintered thought that seedsits own creation ...
Read MoreI have inherited these feetfrom the trust fund of feara garage full of rusting knickknacksstored in a body shop of intent ...
Read MoreWhen Genevieve was only six her fatherdied one evening. An electric storm cloudswallowed her lunchbox ...
Read More"My mother is indigenous to nowhere. My lips curl in bloodat the rising of the father. Black is not a primary color."
Read MoreThe Washington Post says that green burials areon the rise, as baby boomers plan for their future ...
Read MoreA poem inspired by a work from a Midwestern artist.
Read MoreFifty percent of our marriages endedin stalemate, the rest in restaurants.
Read MoreThe legacy of Ferguson need not be reduced to serial clips of impassive state troopers, wailing mothers, and burning storefronts. Rather, it can be how St. Louis got real with itself for the first time in decades.
Read MoreThe women gatherlike painted brides/ a tapestryof eyes/ hands/ knees/ hearts like open baskets ...
Read MoreChef David Kirkland of Turn by David Kirkland shares his lemon-lavender biscuits with carrot curd recipe.
Read MoreChef David Kirkland, formerly of Café Osage, is putting down roots of his own in a new restaurant space, in addition to consulting at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’ café and running his own catering business.
Read MoreSt. Louis-based artist Lauren Michelle Tracy works in indigo and batik, a method using wax-resistant dyes applied to cloth. Her method results in quirky, beautiful objects and art that still reckon with the diverse histories of millennia-old traditions.
Read MoreCharacterized by creativity, careful craftsmanship and sustainability, designers and artisans in the Middle of America are merging a locally made ethos with forward-looking originality.
Read MoreMuhammad Austin might go by “Mvstermind,” but his countenance is quite humble. In person, he’s one of those rare artists with both a chill affect and sincere ardor.
Read MoreJust as Rembrandt amassed shells and Andy Warhol had an assortment of cookie jars, artist Vita Eruhimovitz can’t help but collect items that speak to her.
Read MoreMinneapolis and St. Louis artists highlight the geometric, mixed-materials jewelry of the moment.
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