Last year was tough for Acadia Healthcare, one of the country’s largest providers of mental health services. A slew of federal agencies opened investigations into whether Acadia illegally held patients against their will in its psychiatric hospitals, as described in a New York Times investigation in September. The federal inquiries rattled investors, causing Acadia’s stock…
When the Italian jewelry designer Bea Bongiasca, 34, founded her namesake brand in 2014, she set out to create a world where whimsy reigns. Her sculptural, irreverent collections have included curling bright yellow, orange and purple enameled rings that resemble jewel-encrusted vines, and knotlike silver earrings inspired by taralli, the savory biscuits from Puglia, where…
At the entrance to Hermes Arroyo’s workshop stood a collection of giant paper-and-paste figures, taller than the doorway and dolled up in finery — ready at any moment for one of the many parades and festivals held throughout the year on the cobblestone streets of this city in central Mexico. Here, a grinning, bejeweled Day…