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8 Ways to Display Art in Your Kitchen
Photo of LaTonya Yvette’s kitchen by Nina Barry
Do you hang art in your kitchen? I’ve always viewed the room as utilitarian — I go in, I cook, I’m out of there! — but lately I’ve been craving a homier feel. Taping a family snapshot above the sink or leaning a watercolor next to the toaster feels like an easy way to freshen up the space, don’t you think? Here are eight ways to display art in a kitchen…
Taping paintings onto doors — and resting artwork or tiles on top — makes a home feel lived in and layered. “When you have a lot of pictures, you have to start hanging them wherever you can,” says Wendy Coggins in Minneapolis. (Also, how fun is that champagne cork collection?)
A themed gallery wall is a fun ongoing project. “As soon as I hung my first pear, it felt like a magnet,” says author Catherine Newman. “People now send me pear photos and postcards and drawings. The collection was this organic thing.”
Turning cookbooks to display their covers makes kitchen shelves look beautiful. “Our biggest fights in our marriage come down to me buying cookbooks when our shelves are already overflowing,” laughs author Adam Roberts. “But if I buy a lot of cookbooks, he buys a lot of records, so we’re kind of tit for tat.”
If your kitchen doesn’t have windows, bring nature inside with landscape portraits, like designer Holly Waterfield does in her 575-square-foot Brooklyn family apartment.
You could also put up children’s artwork. “My kids started drawing self-portraits in kindergarten,” says Holly. “It’s amazing how the drawings show how their features changed through the years. When Emmy was in middle school, I realized,‘Oh, now she has high cheekbones.’ And when Bodhi was a baby he had enamel hypoplasia, which made his first two baby teeth came in all yellow and brown. So, in his kindergarten self-portrait, he drew these yellow, bumpy teeth! He was not shy about them at all.”
Alex Mill’s creative director Somsack Sikhounmuong hung a sweet Hugo Guinness linocut.
And our friend Erika Veurink in Brooklyn displays a cool photo of her grandfather: “He used to race cars, and when I saw this photo hanging in his garage, I made him give it to me so I could make prints for my sister and myself.” Now I’m inspired to look through old family photos.
Where do you like to display art in your home?
P.S. Many more home tours, like a book lover’s dream and an ode to Black joy; plus, lovely seaweed artwork.
(Minnesota door photos by Wing Ho. Pear gallery photo by Lyndsay Hannah. Adam Roberts’s cookbook shelves by Julia Robbs. Holly photos and Somsack photo by Kate S. Jordan. Open shelving photo by Mallory Fletchall. Kitchen cabinet and art above the stove photos, plus Erika Veurink’s racecar photo, by Christine Han.)
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NYT Strands hints, answers for May 29, 2026
Today’s NYT Strands hints are easy if you’re an animal lover.
Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There’s always a theme linking every solution, along with the “spangram,” a special, word or phrase that sums up that day’s theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.
By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.
If you’re feeling stuck or just don’t have 10 or more minutes to figure out today’s puzzle, we’ve got all the NYT Strands hints for today’s puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.
NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: E-I-E-I-O
The words are related to animals.
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Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained
These words describe barnyard animals.
NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?
Today’s NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.
NYT Strands spangram answer today
Today’s spangram is Farm Animals.
NYT Strands word list for May 29
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Cows
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Farm Animals
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Goats
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Chickens
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Sheep
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Horses
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Ducks
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Pigs
Looking for other daily online games? Mashable’s Games page has more hints, and if you’re looking for more puzzles, Mashable’s got games now!
Check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.
Not the day you’re after? Here’s the solution to yesterday’s Strands.
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NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for May 29, 2026
The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you have a sensitive nose.
Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that’s captured the public’s attention. The game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today’s Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.
What is Connections?
The NYT‘s latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications’ Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.
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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there’s only one correct answer.
If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.
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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.
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Here’s a hint for today’s Connections categories
Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:
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Yellow: Seas
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Green: Bad odors
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Blue: Found in an estate
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Purple: Acronym
Here are today’s Connections categories
Need a little extra help? Today’s connections fall into the following categories:
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Yellow: Oceans
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Green: Sources of distinctive smells
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Blue: Kinds of rooms in a mansion
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Purple: What “PA” might refer to
Looking for Wordle today? Here’s the answer to today’s Wordle.
Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today’s puzzle before we reveal the solutions.
Drumroll, please!
The solution to today’s Connections #1083 is…
What is the answer to Connections today
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Oceans: ARCTIC, ATLANTIC, INDIAN, PACIFIC
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Sources of distinctive smells: AMMONIA, BO, DURIAN, WET DOG
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Kinds of rooms in a mansion: BILLIARD, DRAWING, POWDER, READING
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What “PA” might refer to: FATHER, PENNSYLVANIA, PROTACTINIUM, PUBLIC ADDRESS
Don’t feel down if you didn’t manage to guess it this time. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we’ll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.
Are you also playing NYT Strands? Get all the Strands hints you need for today’s puzzle.
If you’re looking for more puzzles, Mashable’s got games now! Check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.
Not the day you’re after? Here’s the solution to yesterday’s Connections.
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Jimmy Kimmel gleefully roasts Trump over record low approval rating
The midterms are getting closer, and — according to some polls — Donald Trump’s approval rating is lower than ever before.
“He is now down to 34 percent. He has the same approval rating as Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” says Jimmy Kimmel in the monologue above from Thursday night’s show. “Not only is Trump at his lowest point, he’s also two points behind JD Vance. I don’t have a joke for that, I just want to make sure he knows he’s two points behind JD Vance.”
Kimmel goes on to bring up White House spokesman Davis Ingle’s official response, in which he pointed to Trump’s win in the 2024 election as “the ultimate poll.”
“OK, yeah,” says Kimmel, “but now it’s May of 2026 and everybody hates him.”
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