Thursday’s “Project Runway” episode reminds us how far we have to go in Season 7 with 13 contestants still in it to win it, including all of Team Gay—and how far we’ve come from last year’s debacle. The challenge this week was to pair up in teams and take inspiration from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of iconic dresses. The display included looks that mere laymen would recognize, even if they don’t know that the era-specific looks are attached to names like Dior, Saint Laurent and Balenciaga. Trouble is, from a gallery full of color—silver, garnet, pearl, sienna, pink and ...

Thursday’s “Project Runway” episode reminds us how far we have to go in Season 9 with 13 contestants still in it to win it, including all of Team Gay—and how far we’ve come from last year’s debacle. The challenge this week was to pair up in teams and take inspiration from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of iconic dresses. The display included looks that laymen would recognize, even if they don’t know that the era-specific looks are attached to names like Dior, Saint Laurent and Balenciaga. Trouble is, from a gallery full of color—sparkling silver, cherry red, pearl gray, light ...

Based on 130 photographs with "visiting foreign dignitaries" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo. The video is based on this set of State Department photos on Flickr. I think the Flickr slideshow is much more interesting than the video above: ...