In “What Becomes a Legend Most,” Philip Gefter shows Richard Avedon to be an eminent fashion photographer driven to be recognized as a great artist but met with disdain from the establishment.

Montauk Brewery has plans for several limited beer releases in 2021, starting today with the debut of a small-batch I.P.A. just in time for Valentine's Day. It's called Love Is. . . a Cold Beer, and apparently there's much to, uh, love about it. 

The working process of Claire Watson, from her early 1990s transformations of ordinary tobacco pipes into extraordinary objects to her recent constructions assembled from leather pattern parts, thread, and wood veneer, can be seen as a form of alchemy, one that often emerges from her personal history and her research.