Outskirts
Hand Prints
The Cricket Press specializes in hand-printed music gig posters, art prints, and more.
Talking Heads
Craftsmen Keith Lovik is a master of a time-honored area of puppetry - the ventriloquist dummy.
We Work in Fragile Material
A Swedish design collective finds strength in numbers. David Sokol reports on their rambunctious projects.
Sweet Relief
The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, discovers a Renaissance treasure in storage; Marc Kristal follows a curator/sleuth on the trail of authentication.
Keeping it Real
Laurie Manfra discovers that it takes almost a village-or at least a full team of glassblowers and machinists-to create Lindsey Adelman's made-to-order innovative Bubble chandeliers.
Mozart in the California Desert
An American set designer staging a Mozart opera in Switzerland has an unusual problem with the stage technicians-their craftsmanship is too good!
The Only Coral Reef in Los Angeles
Arnie Cooper explores the only coral reef in Los Angeles-it's far from the ocean, yet surprisingly close to space, courtesy of the Wertheim sisters.