Visual Arts Alums Exhibit at Friday Arts Nomadic Gallery, Founded by Alums - Columbia School of the Arts

New York’s Massey Klein Gallery will close its doors after nine years, saying that after initial success, the numbers no longer add up to pay for its showroom on the Lower East Side and support the dealers’ family and the gallery’s artists. Husband-and-wife team Garrett Klein and Ryan Massey felt called by their Christian faith to open the gallery, and say they’ll continue on with nomadic projects. They announced the closure in a Saturday Instagram post. The gallery’s current show, of Kate McQuillen, is extended through November 20.

Lloyd Enbom and his wife bought a house in Nagano Prefecture in Japan. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lloyd Enbom, 40, a content creator who purchased an abandoned home in Hakuba, Japan, a ski town in Nagano Prefecture, with his wife, Mandy Rutherford. Enbom, who is from Australia, plans to continue traveling with his wife and two-year-old daughter while making Japan their home for half the year. The following has been edited for length and clarity. We've been doing YouTube full-time for nearly five years. Our full-time work is travel content. In 2021, we were locked down in Australia until the 11th of November, which was the exact day we left. At the time, a lot of people, especially in Australia, thought you couldn't travel to Bali or Southeast Asia, so we were documenting our experience of doing it, and sharing tips and advice. That's when it really dawned on us that travel content was a viable business, because people tend to watch other people travel to get advice on where to go, what to do, how to get visas, and how to earn money online so that you can travel full-time. So we fell into the role of educators for people on how to live this sort of life.

custom BB-grade birch panels with flush joints form an unbroken interior shell, embedding furniture, a fireplace, and concealed storage along a glazed axis that opens directly onto the terrace. Barros edited by christina vergopoulou October 23, 2026 3 min prefer designboom on googleFlacon Cargo Module turns SHIPPING CONTAINER INTO MICRO-CABINDesigned by architects Evgeny Makarenko and Andris Shneps-Shneppe, this 24-sqm micro-cabin transforms an intermodal steel shipping container into a self-contained, relocatable residential module. Located within the ‘Derevnya’ creative community, an experimental rural settlement established by the Flacon Design Factory team, the project accommodates a double bedroom, kitchen, living area with a fireplace, and a full shower room within a compact footprint.all images ©Evgeny MakarenkoBIRCH PLYWOOD SHELL INTEGRATES FLUSH JOINERY AND BUILT-IN FURNITUREThe interior is lined in an unbroken shell of hand-selected, second-grade (BB) birch plywood, chosen for its natural grain variations. Built-in furniture, work surfaces, and concealed storage integrate directly into the wall and ceiling planes to leave the central circulation path clear.

It was an otherwise typical day on 25 September 2021 when thousands of dead and dying crustaceans washed up on beaches in Yorkshire and the north-east of England. Early morning walkers and swimmers were aghast to find a sickening carpet of twitching, fitting crabs. It would be the first but not the last die-off, which would see the disappearance of vast swathes of integral native sea life along an extended stretch of coast, including seal pups. It would also see the decimation of the local fishing industry and, with that, a way of life. Environmentalists, fishers and ordinary local people wondered what could have possibly caused such a rare catastrophic incident. Meanwhile, hours before – completely coincidentally, the authorities said – a major dredging operation was carried out in the mouth of the River Tees, disturbing sediment where decades earlier highly toxic pollutants from heavy industry had been pumped. The authorities, after carrying out a series of their own tests, denied there was a causal link, blaming an algae bloom and then, later, a novel pathogen. But those who live and work around the Tees estuary disagreed. Relentless campaigner …