Elizabeth Hazard

Musician SaraEllen (she goes by one name, and it’s not Sara or Sara Ellen; it’s SaraEllen) is a talented vocalist, songwriter and producer who likes to push boundaries and challenge the norm as an artist. Blending together jazz, soul and pop into one sultry, seductive, fiery package, SaraEllen finds comparisons to a film noir heroine in her work. As part of a jazz pop duo with her husband, the artist performs as part of Plaid Lion. But it’s in her solo work where she explores her more moodier...

Author and musician Amaris Emersleben has been enamored with the ocean and its depths since she was a child. It’s no mystery it’s played a pivotal role in her writing and music. But there is great mystery and intrigue in her latest novel, Shadows of Cerulean, set to be released on February 25, 2026. Emersleben spoke with us about her fascination with the deep sea, escapism and finding love where you least expect it.

Artist Ashley Brossart explores architecture, space and place in work that transcends and transports. Her latest body of work, entitled “Cadence,” studies the natural rhythms that exist within the natural world and the human body. Brossart’s work showcases that there’s a natural rhythm within both movement and stillness; and she hopes that her artistic expression of this rhythm will inspire great inspiration for positive movement.

Benjamin Dean Wilson is an artistic genius and chameleon all in one. Songwriter, composer and filmmaker, he melds his talents into beautiful works of art that have been referred to as cinematic experience without the need for visuals. This latest release, “Until the House Falls” is an expansive, multi-genre opus that tells a genuine story that ranges from devastating to playful, dark and dramatic to joyful and rousing. In the end, Wilson hopes to show that humanity will always long for inspir...

Walter Iooss Jr. has been called “the poet laureate of sports.” He has shot countless athletes. A career that spans over six decades, his photos have appeared on more than 300 covers of Sports Illustrated. He shoots these icons of the fields, courts, pools, tracks and stadiums in such a masterful way that the images become iconic themselves. Through his lens, athletes become art. Now on view online at Bruce Silverstein Gallery is a celebration of his work entitled Athlete.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the first major exhibition on the American artist Man Ray (1890-1976) and his experimentation with the rayograph. Comprised of 35 pieces of work, Man Ray coined the term rayograph to name his 19th-century technique of making photographs without a camera.

American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard is highly regarded as a pioneer of expressive, surreal photography. Best known for his black & white photos of masked family members shot in scenes that suggest absurd fantasies, played out in the dilapidated houses and banal suburban environments. The fantastical scenes often revealed his search for inner truths among the ordinary.

Fine Art Photographer KP Madhavan debuts his newest body of work at Pleiades Gallery in New York City. The Last Pagan will be shown as part of a group show on view January 21-February 13. The exhibition’s opening reception is January 24.

There are countless chefs in New York City. Hundreds of restaurants open and close daily in the Big Apple. To make it here as a chef is a tough order. To launch a restaurant that stands the test of time is a herculean task. John DeLucie stands among the few who have done both, to great success. His name as a chef and restaurateur is tied to some of Manhattan’s most iconic establishments. Waverly Inn, The Lion, Empire Diner, to name a few. To have been at the helm of some of the city’s buzzies...

On view at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is an exhibition exploring the ideals of Pan-African solidarity and culture. Entitled Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination, the exhibition showcases how photography celebrates and fuels this cultural representation. It explores the response to the cultural changes that were sweeping both Africa with decolonialization and the US with the Civil Rights movement. The cultural shift was omnipresent and these lively portraits ...

Seeing Silence is a fitting title for the upcoming exhibition devoted to Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946). An influential modernist who spent much of her life in semi-seclusion, Schjerfbeck developed a vocabulary of quietude: painting became the voice through which she spoke. Known for her experimentation with form and her strikingly expressive surfaces, she remains a pivotal influence on countless 20th-century artists. Although celebrated in Finland and Sweden as the most accom...

Writer Andrea Strong knows when something is worth the buzz, and when something is buzzworthy. She’s been delving into, divulging and digesting all things in the New York food and restaurant scene for more than 20 years on The Strong Buzz. She knows what she’s talking about and writing about. Food fads, restaurant recs, openings, closings–she’s covered them all. Strong spoke with Beyondish recently and gave us a hearty helping of restaurant buzz with a side of local Rockaway Beach food news.
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On view now at Vero Beach Museum in Florida is an exhibition worth a double take. Double Portraits, a collaboration of work by 34 artists, features 47 photos exploring the concept of a“double portrait.” The exhibition is divided into four sections, each one capturing the American South and explores the idea of human connection.

We’ve all been there. You’re visiting somewhere new and you decide to hit the local farmer’s market for a taste and touch of local flair and fare. You stumble upon something great only to find you’ll have to visit that location again to buy that thing again. But what if you could have those local farmer’s market finds delivered to your doorstep?
Welcome to The Farmers Finds, a subscription-based service that curates the best of the best from local farmer’s markets across the country and deliv...

Now on view at the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY), in celebration of the artist’s centennial, a retrospective of Robert Rauschenberg’s work integrating photography with found objects. This exhibition is just one of many throughout the world that celebrate the 100th anniversary of Rauschenberg’s birth. The exhibition will center specifically on the artist’s complex relationship with New York City and his individual, unique view of “the real world” as he saw it.
Rauschenberg was known as...