Pratt’s creative community is continually exploring areas as diverse as historical research, sound art, climate change, and neuroscience. These fascinating recent conversations with ten notable alumni and faculty members offer a wide range of new ideas and perspectives. Groundbreaking Photography Photographer Sylvia Plachy, BFA ’65, helped define New York City’s […]
Cool and Connected: Smart Fridges Fit for Your Kitchen – Mansion Global These refrigerators will preserve your food—and your sanity—with a host of high-tech features By John ElliotOriginally Published May 3, 2022 A refrigerator may seem like a simple thing, but the central appliance of your kitchen could be doing […]
Sheena Wagstaff would often visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1980s when she was an arts student, seeking refuge among the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the Asian art department. Her appointment in 2012 as the museum’s top curator of modern and contemporary art brought the most overshadowed department […]
It’s a sleek and contemporary New York-style apartment in the heart of Beverly Hills: a penthouse dubbed One LA that recently hit the market for $75 million. If it sells for the asking price, the newly constructed penthouse will break the record for the highest-priced condominium sale in the City […]
The Federal Reserve yanked a short-term interest rate higher this week, making it more expensive to borrow money to buy a home or fix it up. All in the name of slowing inflation. The central bank raised the federal funds rate Wednesday by 0.5%, or half a percentage point. The […]
A co-living startup offers a new sleeping-pod design to allow up to 14 residents to share a home. The first two sites are in Palo Alto and Bakersfield, California, where rents are on the rise. Homes are fully furnished, with common workspaces, shared kitchens, and two bathrooms. Loading Something is […]