Patricia Leigh Brown

The age-old practice of turning tree leaves into mats has been revived on the islands. “It teaches you how to weave relationships, past and present,” one master artisan says.

In South Carolina’s Lowcountry, artists, farmers and designers are writing a new chapter in indigo’s rich and tangled history.

The former Lincoln Motor factory is in the vanguard of new development poised to transform moribund automotive facilities into affordable housing and art studios.

Textile weavers, tassel-makers, lighting restorers, cabinet makers and muralists forged new traditions at the sumptuous Beaux-Arts museum.

Two years after deadly wildfires hit Lahaina, archaeologists, conservators and congregants have taken on a “CSI” challenge: saving thousands of cultural artifacts from landmarks and sacred sites.

Japan has nearly 30,000 hot springs and a culture of public bathing. An Israeli American architect, Yuval Zohar, has developed a passion for it.

Public light spectacles by artists like Bruce Munro herald a movement that infuses culture in valleys of viticulture (and blazes new trails in cities, too).

The artist Klara Hosnedlova inaugurates OMA’s soaring new atrium stairway at the New Museum.

Mets fans, avert your eyes: John Middleton, majority owner of the Phillies, and his wife have a deep bench of American art stars, and they’ve lent them in a dual display for the 250th.

Elaborate coffins, produced by Ghanaian artisans, are the centerpieces of funerals that celebrate the life of the deceased and get them to the afterlife in style.