FEATURES

On England’s Cornish coast, an artistic flowering took place in the sleepy town of St. Ives. Surprisingly, it was mid-century abstraction that bloomed.
By Tom Beer

92 Dossier: Visit the artists’ studios and get a sense of the St. Ives School.

Every hour of every day in Europe’s most vital and creative city, artists living on the cheap are taking inspiration from the ever-changing urban landscape. Who says the bohemian ideal is dead?
By Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz. Photographs by Oliver Helbig

93 Dossier: Make the most of Berlin’s art world this summer.

Artists’ stamps conjure exotic travel to faraway places that may or may not be real. Herewith a portfolio of fantastical postage you’ll never see in your mailbox. It could inspire even the most jaded traveler to dream big.

92 Dossier: Donald Evans created a miniature universe in his too-brief career.

The literature of Los Angeles is steeped in the city’s unusual relationship with nature: Writers can’t avoid the sunshine, and worry that it illuminates a fallen Eden.
By David L. Ulin. Photographs by Jeff Minton

94 Dossier: Join the author for a tour of L.A.’s top five literary locales.

DEPARTMENTS

16 Exhibitions
18 Architecture
20 Performance
22 Books

The Paradesi Synagogue, India’s oldest, endures the changes wrought by time and Jewish emigration.
By Amy Rosenberg

Anthony Bannon, director of George Eastman House, holds sacred a moment captured in a rare daguerreotype—an image of Daguerre himself.

On the outskirts of Paris lies a peaceful landscape garden filled with ready-made ruins and inspired by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
By Lorin Stein

A dedicated carnivore from Wisconsin discovers the lightly breaded bliss found in that venerable Cape Cod institution—the clam shack.
By Robert Simonson

Goethe’s childhood home in Frankfurt is a shrine to elegance, comfort, and the power of the imagination.
By John Armstrong

Masters of industry and the sons and daughters of privilege made the elite Jekyll Island Club their Southern playground.
By Wyatt Mason

The provincial charm of Salzburg draws many to its festival, and finds a surprising counterpoint in the town’s contemporary art savvy.
By Anne Midgette

Artist James Riordan charts his travels across New Zealand with a purely personal series of maps.
By Annie Russell