You don't serve up a great steak on a plastic plate. So, when you’re featuring the best of the fashion world in a book, you don’t produce a cheap paperback. Instead, there’s Robert Ector’s Details: City Streets are the Real Runways, which captures Fashion Week highlights from London, Milan,...
Abiola Akintola lets his hands speak for him. “I am a man of few words, but I love to say whatever I mean in my sculptures and paintings,” says the acclaimed artist whose creative form of expression transcends language and culture. “I want to touch people through my experience......
Taking on one of the most famous roles in the ballet world is pressure enough. But when Nikisha Fogo stepped out as the Sugar Plum Fairy in the San Francisco Ballet’s production of the perennial holiday favorite, The Nutcracker, last Christmas, she did so as the first Black principal...
For Edwin Sorto, a good education involves four Rs, not just the traditional three (reading, writing and arithmetic). In addition to the long-acknowledged need for a grounding in the basics, he advocates for rhythm—the foot-moving kind.
Sorto’s Latin-flavored dance lessons at the KIPP Promise Academy in southeast Washington, D.C., have...