Casting a dubious eye on the new “tyranny of gadgets,” artist John Miller recalls a pre-digital childhood and his lifelong quest to make time blissfully his own again.

A one-room school in rural Onatario gave the young Janet Cardiff a sense of dreaminess and self-direction that has served the artist well for fifty years.

As the Met’s Costume Institute opens an exhibition about the interplay between handmade and mass-produced fashion, Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch for a sequin-making machine evokes a longer historical view of the topic.