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An Elegant New Restaurant in Hudson Serves Produce From the Owners’ FarmImageLeft: the bar at Restaurant Manor Rock is made of red oak trees from the owners’ farm. Right: carnaroli rice, mushrooms and egg yolks.Credit...Lucia Bell-Epstein

By Luke Fortney

When Ivy Nallo and Zack Nussdorf moved to Taghkanic, N.Y., in 2020, they envisioned having a small garden where they could grow enough produce to host dinners on the screen porch. Four years later, the 625-square-foot plot has grown into a one-acre farm with greenhouses and a herd of Mangalitsa pigs, known for their lard. At the end of October, Nallo and Nussdorf opened Restaurant Manor Rock in Hudson, N.Y., a 20-minute drive from their farm. Much of the produce, like the patchwork peppers and the Barbarella eggplants, comes from their land, as does the pork for their loin chops and charcuterie. Nussdorf briefly worked as a line cook at the Michelin-starred Brooklyn restaurant the Four Horsemen. Here, he and the chef Diego Romo, previously of Gem and Estela in Manhattan, are making simple, seasonal dishes, like grilled squid with turnips and potatoes cooked in Mangalitsa lard. Before it hosted a string of restaurants, Manor Rock’s Warren Street space was a townhouse. It was overhauled earlier this year by the design and architecture firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero, who outfitted the restaurant with porcelain sconces, cream-colored walls and a red-oak bar made of trees from Manor Rock Farm. “We wanted it to feel like it’s been here for the last hundred years,” Nallo says. instagram.com/manorrockfarm.

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Peter McGough’s Cyanotype Alphabet, on Display in Downtown ManhattanImageLeft: Peter McGough’s “The Letter C” (2008/2023). Right: McGough’s “The Letter E” (2008/2023).Credit...© Peter McGough, courtesy of the artist and Karma, New York

By Jameson Montgomery

The American artist Peter McGough, who for four decades beginning in the early 1980s served as one half of the art duo McDermott and McGough, has long employed antiquated media and methods of photography. One of his favored techniques is cyanotype, a 19th-century invention in which objects or photographic negatives are placed against paper covered in photosensitive chemicals. When exposed to UV light, the paper turns a brilliant blue, with the image appearing in white negative space. This month, McGough’s first solo exhibition in New York at Karma Gallery in downtown Manhattan features 26 cyanotype prints, each depicting a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by either individuals or groupings of nude male models (both “M” and “W” required four sitters). Most models appear completely unadorned, though some sport floral crowns; rare props include a ribbon representing the upper arm of “T,” and two skulls placed at one model’s feet, creating the serif of an uppercase “I.” Though these are new images, cyanotypes require a lengthy exposure that results in imagery with a softly blurred quality reminiscent of 19th-century portraiture. To coincide with the exhibition, Karma is releasing a catalog of the suite of works, which is fittingly bound in blue linen. “Alphabet” is on view through Dec. 21, karmakarma.org.

Stay Here

In Crescent Head, Australia, a New Hotel for Artsy SurfersImageLeft: a bedroom at Sea Sea with stained pine walls featuring the photograph “Unified Field” by the artist Daniel Askill. Right: a view of nearby Crescent Head beach on a small wave day.Credit...Tommaso Riva

By Gisela Williams

In 1999, George Gorrow launched the denim label Ksubi in Sydney with a few surf buddies. Five years later, with one of his Ksubi partners, he opened the Slow, a 12-room hotel in Canggu, Bali. This week, Gorrow, along with his wife, the German model Cisco Tschurtschenthaler, debuted his latest project: the 25-room Sea Sea hotel in the tiny surf town (population about 1,600) of Crescent Head in Australia’s New South Wales. It took Gorrow and his crew about two years to renovate the faded remains of a conference motel into what he describes as a “’70s surf shack meets eclectic alpine hunting lodge,” complete with a gallery for art exhibitions and concerts, as well as an outdoor pool, sauna, cold plunge and fire pit. He brought on his friend Wesley Herron, one of the D.J.s behind the L.A.-based podcast Reverberation Radio, to curate the music in the rooms and asked the surf company Wild Things Gallery to supply rental boards. The hotel’s restaurant, Sane Kitchen, which showcases ingredients from farms in the surrounding Macleay Valley, is headed up by Daniel Medcalf, the former chef from the Slow, while rooms are decorated with touches from artist friends, like photographs by Kate Bellm, graphic bed covers by Romon Yang and hand-chiseled wood sconces by Aleph Geddis. From $275 a night, seaseahotel.com.

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