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How to revive an 18th-century upstate farmhouse without resorting to cliché? By pretending a made-up person lives there too. By Alice Newell-Hanson and Blaine Davis From a tiny French ...

Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found ...