PATRICK ADAMS



Through our experience of art, we experience our everyday world transformed and re-imagined. Patrick Adams seeks to call his audience to a place beyond one's normal experience of surroundings. Adams' impressionistic landscapes transport the viewer to familiar and almost dreamlike locales.



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MINERALS



Exhibit by Aberson has been searching for and acquiring minerals from around the world. A fusion of design and primitive form, they are hand-selected to add texture and interest to spaces.



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URSULA O'FARRELL



O'Farrell has focused her painting almost entirely on the depiction of women, reflecting no doubt a concern about her own identity. These canvases are done by an artist who has absorbed the lessons of Action Painting and are done with a vigorous brush, probably also with a palette knife and a trowel with lush paint slathered on to the support.



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JAMIE KIRKLAND



Jamie Kirkland seeks to evoke a sense of limitless space, of expansiveness, stillness and calm in her paintings. Her work has been described as "minimalist abstract landscape." Kirkland desires to speak to the viewer through simplicity and by reducing the landscape to shapes and forms, much the same way a poet expresses an idea in three lines of haiku.



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CAN ART CHANGE THE WORLD?



Can obstruction, or outright destruction, be as powerful as the act of creation? Annie Godfrey Larmon takes a look.



R E A D

MARINATED SUMMER SQUASH WITH HAZELNUTS AND RICOTTA



Toss raw halved squash with salt and let it sit for at least ten minutes (and up to 30) to draw out some liquid, and then pat dry with paper towels. This also seasons it from the inside out, concentrating the flavor.



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GIN ROCKET



Portland- and San Francisco–based bartender Kate Bolton has the touch for subtle, delicate drinks that go wonderfully with food. This spin on the gimlet is no exception: shaking shaved fennel and muddled arugula into the drink gives it an anise-and-pepper flavor that's ideal for serving with seafood or light pasta dishes.



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INSIDE ZEDD'S MANSION THAT HAS A SKITTLES MACHINE | OPEN DOOR | ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST




In this episode of Open Door, Grammy-winning record producer and DJ Zedd gives an in-depth tour of his $16 million mansion in Benedict Canyon, an area of Los Angeles that's near Sherman Oaks and northwest of Beverly Hills.

W A T C H

ANN MIURA-KO — THE PATH FROM SHYNESS TO WORLD-CLASS DEBATER AND INVESTOR



Ann Miura-Ko has been called "the most powerful woman in startups" by Forbes and is a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford.



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