Met Defends Suggestive Painting of Girl After Petition Calls for Its Removal “Thérèse Dreaming” (1938) by the painter known as Balthus. Credit... Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 The Metrop
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The Pitch On the eve of a new book chronicling his career, Steve Keene talks about his friend David Berman, his inspiration from punk, and why his paintings are like pizzas. June 14, 2022 Graphic by M
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1 of 14 This small illustration, sketched in one of Charles Darwin’s notebooks, is commonly referred to now as his ‘Tree of Life’. Drawn around July 1837, after his return from his voyages on HMS Beag
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In an age that favors—often demands—the constant reinvention of its pop stars, there is a reassuring familiarity to Florence Welch, front woman of Florence + the Machine. Here she is, a Saturday lunch
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M id-morning in New Orleans , and outside an Uptown coffee shop, Win Butler is talking of life in his adopted city – the basketball, brass bands, and the poisonous caterpillars of the buck moth that,
By now, Sharon Van Etten can’t quite remember how many times she watched The Sandlot over the pandemic with her five-year-old son. But what she does remember is this: During one particular viewing in
Profile After more than a decade as an indie-rock fixture, and with her sixth album on the way, the singer-songwriter is resolute amid a world spiraling into chaos. Photography by Don Brodie April 11,
My husband and I first met Trevor Matthews when he and our son, George, started kindergarten together at St. Bernard’s, a private boys’ school on the Upper East Side. Trevor was perhaps the brightest
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This summer has seen extreme temperatures across the globe, with the UK having the warmest June ever recorded (smashing the previous record by 0.9ºC) and extreme heat across the US, China and Europe,
It was late in the evening of August 16th, 1971, and twenty-two-year-old Douglas Korpi, a slim, short-statured Berkeley graduate with a mop of pale, shaggy hair, was locked in a dark closet in the bas
Philip Zimbardo. John Lamparski/WireImage Brian Resnick is Vox’s science and health editor, and is the co-creator of Unexplainable, Vox's podcast about unanswered questions in science. Previously, Bri
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On the morning of August 17, 1971, nine young men in the Palo Alto area received visits from local police officers. While their neighbors looked on, the men were arrested for violating Penal Codes 211
Mark and Delia Owens, in reaction to my article on their conservation work in Zambia, have posted on their website several statements from their supporters that testify to their Albert Schweitzer-like
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According to my closest friends and various suspect Internet sources, turning 29 on January 29, 2017 marked my golden birthday. At the time, I wasn’t sure what that meant, but I had a gut feeling abou
In February 2018, New York Magazine published “Worst Roommate Ever,” which chronicles the ultimate Craigslist nightmare. The article, by William Brennan, is now the basis of a Netflix anthology docuse
In 2017, Anna Sorokin was still conning her way through elite circles—bilking banks, hotels, and associates for more than $200,000—in her alleged quest to build a social club. But Sorokin—who was call
Times Insider The Making of ‘The Trojan Horse Affair’ How a doctor-turned-journalist worked with a veteran audio reporter to create a podcast about a mysterious letter that riveted Britain. Brian Reed
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Michael Stipe, Another Outsider at the Art Fair The R.E.M. singer-songwriter is parting with works from his collection of Southern artists — but their inspiration lingers on. Michael Stipe, musician,
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This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the full collection for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. A T THE HEART of the Ukraine crisis lies a fundamental question
A common criticism of pop music today is that it is too dominated by technology. Vocals are smoothed into perfect pitch and drums or synths come from presets, the end result being that too many songs
M itski has been having nightmares. The 31-year-old musician has always suffered from performance-anxiety dreams, but lately they’ve gotten more terrifying, more elaborate. During one in particular, h
Taken on a pinhole camera made from a beer can lined with photo paper, the image shows the rising and falling of the sun over the period of eight years. Photograph by Regina Valkenborgh AT A GLANCE it
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