From art lessons to the latest in our repurposed-quilt obsession, a handful of things we spotted and liked this week:

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• Our picks for Mother’s Day and the women in your life, .


• , inspired by the women of the Bauhaus movement.


• Julie’s favorite painter, the Cape Cod-based artist Rob Dutoit, is giving on nature in painting via the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill on Tuesday, May 18th from 10 a.m. – noon. (Spot some of Rob’s work in flat.)


• Margot let us know about the writer, artist, and ceramicist new book, —a series of imaginary letters to the 19th-century art collector whose home became the Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris—to be released on May 11th.


• Object of desire: .


• And over on Gardenista: .