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The Painter Carole Wantz’s Debut Exhibition
By Rima Suqi
For the architecture-obsessed, Columbus, Indiana, offers many attractions, with buildings by renowned figures such as Eliel Saarinen, Harry Weese, I.M. Pei and Deborah Berke. But when I made the pilgrimage last summer, my biggest discovery wasn’t the midcentury structures; it was the work of self-taught artist Carole Wantz , who in the 1970s and ’80s created more than 150 paintings of its residents. Now, over 35 “The Artwork of Carole Wantz: Collected Stories From Columbus, Indiana” is on view through July 25 at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis, indianamuseum.org .
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Small-Batch Soy Paste From Taiwan
By Cathy Erway
Taiwan is an island of 23 million people who care deeply about food. And now, some of its food products have made their way to North American shores. Small-batch, handmade soy paste, an everyday condiment for dumplings or turnip cake, is traditionally made by cooking glutinous rice grains and water with soy sauce, which gives it a thick, glossy body similar to oyster sauce. Yu Ding Xing, a family-owned business in XiLuo, still produces it this way, along with a range of soy sauces made from black soybeans that are naturally fermented in terra-cotta barrels then wood-fired. One of the brand’s notable soy pastes is mixed in with miso paste for a smooth and pourable umami burst; another variety, which contains mirin and licorice, has subtle notes of chocolate and anise. Yu Ding Xing products are sold online by Yun Hai , an e-commerce site launched in 2018 by Lisa Cheng-Smith and Ivan Wu that specializes in Taiwanese pantry ingredients. Cheng-Smith personally likes to drizzle these on blanched greens or brush them on scallion pancakes. “It’s essentially an even more versatile soy sauce, with a little more sweetness and body,” she says. This year, Yun-Hai will add several more products to its small collection of Taiwanese ingredients, including cold-pressed black sesame paste, or “Taiwan’s Nutella,” as Cheng-Smith describes it. From $14, yunhai.shop .
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A Restaurant and Culinary Residency Opens in Brooklyn
By Lindsey Tramuta
After six years of growing their chef residency program across three spaces in Paris (at L’Adresse, En Face wine bar and L’Entrepôt), the trio behind the restaurant group Fulgurances — Rebecca Asthalter, Hugo Hivernat and Sophie Coribert — recently brought their vision stateside with a 34-seat outpost in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. Opening this week, the restaurant occupies a former laundromat in a landmarked building on Franklin Street, fulgurances.com .
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On Netflix, a New Season of “Special”
By Kurt Soller
In 2019, Ryan O’Connell wrote and starred in a semi-autobiographical short-form Netflix comedy, “Special,” about a gay man with cerebral palsy finding his way in Los Angeles that was both tender and acerbic, often poking fun at the ways in which people who aren’t disabled stumble around those who are. Now the show’s back for a second (and final) season, with 30-minute episodes — twice as long as last time — which display a fresh confidence that mirrors the growth of its protagonist, played by the showrunner and sharing his name and ironic wit, honed from years spent as a writer online. “I needed certain moments to breathe and resonate, and in 15 minutes, honey, they can’t,” O’Connell, 34, wrote me in an email. “I wanted to show the world what I could do if given the proper amount of time and resources.” After quickly finishing the new episodes, I came to feel that one of O’Connell’s many talents is creating characters that feel real — unlike other sitcoms, no one is overly aspirational, likable or stock-made, but they still earn some necessary sympathy — and then hiring fantastic actors like Max Jenkins, Punam Patel and Jessica Hecht who add nuance, humor and a bit of self-effacing strangeness to these complicated roles. “I am such a slut for casting,” O’Connell adds. “My poor casting director was constantly besieged with me sending 30 options for a person who has, like, a two-line part.” netflix.com .
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A Ceramic Egg That Incites Mindfulness
By Nikki Shaner-Bradford
According to the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, “You can mold clay into a vessel, yet it is its emptiness that makes it useful.” It’s a quote that’s been top of mind for Jenn Tardif of the mindfulness collective $150, 3rdritual.com .
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