Credit...Photo Illustration by Klawe Rzeczy; Source Photographs by George Etheredge for The New York Times; Juan Arredondo for The New York Times; Amy Osborne for The New York Times; Lucia Vazquez for The New York Times; Jim Wilson/The New York Times; Shutterstock John Ternus, a low-profile but…

At what point did you realize a career in the arts was viable? Before becoming a photography teacher at St. Paul’s, my father was a professional photographer and graphic designer, so I had role model for a career in art. But I did not know exactly what I wanted to do with my career until the late…

Credit: Michael Gisselere He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings, notably the spectacular Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, his masterpiece. Credit: Michael GisselereCredit... By Published Dec. 5, 2025Updated Dec. 8, 2025 Leer en español Frank O. Gehry, one of the most formidable and…

Critic’s Notebook “The Look” should be studied by generations to come because of what it reveals not about fashion, but about politics. Listen to this article · 6:04 min Learn more Making an image for posterity: Michelle Obama, wearing a Milly gown and having her makeup touched up by Carl Ray, as…

WINTERSET, Iowa — Mackenzie Dryden’s happiest childhood memories are of running barefoot through the sunlit corn fields of her hometown. But when she was diagnosed with cancer 2½ years ago at 18 years old, a disturbing thought began to take hold. Could something in the land she loved have made her…

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett confirmed her belief that marriage equality has resulted in “very concrete reliance interests” that make it unlikely to be overturned. In a conversation with the New York Times’ Ross Douthat, Barrett defined reliance interests as “things that would be upset or…

When Kelley Hiatt moved to St. Louis from Los Angeles two years ago, she just assumed that she’d have to fly back and forth to southern California to keep working in her field. A location manager for film and television, Hiatt got her start helping TV producer extraordinaire Dick Wolf find locations…

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came and been refunded my $34 plus shipping, I would have. I didn’t want it anymore. The two other…

Kevin Maurits 4 min read· Aug 5, 2025 -- In an industry saturated by algorithmic playlists and passive consumption, a quiet revolution is underway. Bianca Cheng Costanzo, Co-founder and Head of Design at DZCO, is building a new way to experience music, one that reclaims the physicality and emotional…

Modern Love Credit...Brian Rea It was summertime in Manhattan, dark and balmy, almost midnight, on the Upper West Side. He and I rounded the corner from Amsterdam. Drinks had gone well. Walking me home, he held my hand. Tipsy, I said, “You can’t come up,” and stopped near a stoop. “I don’t want to,”…

exclusive What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He’s Making With Jony Ive The idea is a ‘chance to do the biggest thing we’ve ever done as a company here,’ Altman told OpenAI employees Wednesday When Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015, the AI industry was niche. Here’s how he built…

The Grand Staircase leading to the newly opened family rooms has a restored chandelier and decorative screen covering the pipe organ.Credit...Vincent Tullo for The New York Times Textile weavers, tassel-makers, lighting restorers, cabinet makers and muralists forged new traditions at the sumptuous…

The modern world can be divided into two distinct eras: before Tom Holland performed "Umbrella" on "Lip Sync Battle," and after. The year was 2017. The Oscars had mixed up their winners. Kendall Jenner had made a problematic Pepsi ad. The Fyre Festival had crashed and burned, sad cheese sandwiches…

In the two decades I’ve been in this racket, I’ve never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple’s announcement on Friday that the “more personalized Siri” features of Apple Intelligence, scheduled to appear between now and WWDC, would be delayed until “the coming year”. I…

Upon arriving at City Hall you’re greeted with a sign indicating a list of payment methods that aren’t accepted for parking. The sign is necessary because visitors to City Hall expect to be able to use these methods. Instead of adapting the system to the expectations of the user, the user is forced…

Netflix has a very large subscriber base and they obviously track a lot of different data points. Earlier today they released some data in relation to people’s viewing habits, more specifically at what point in a TV series run people get addicted. What’s interesting is that the pilot episode isn’t a…

Marcin Wichary 14 February 2025 / 6,100 words / 600 photos In 2007, on my first trip to New York City, I grabbed a brand-new DSLR camera and photographed all the fonts I was supposed to love. I admired American Typewriter in all of the I <3 NYC logos, watched Akzidenz Grotesk and Helvetica fighting…

Billionaire businessman Dan Gilbert moved his mortgage company’s headquarters from the suburbs of Detroit to downtown in 2010.

In its public education campaigns, the U.S. National Park Service stresses an important distinction: If you find yourself being attacked by a brown or grizzly bear, YES, DO PLAY DEAD. Spread your arms and legs and cling to the ground with all your might, facing downward; after a few attempts to flip…

AI startup developed a top system by relying on inexperienced engineers and a loophole in U.S. export controls President Trump said the launch of a low-cost Chinese AI model should be seen as a wake-up call for U.S. industries. Trump also announced plans to impose new tariffs on semiconductor…

TL;DR: Help, Get Help, and Know the Facts Donate Go Fund Me Drives for Palisades & Eaton Fire Victims (non-exhaustive and will be constantly updated; most are for households, some are for 501c3 nonprofits and businesses) Wildfire Crisis Response: California Community Foundation, Red Cross, LAFD…

My friend’s boyfriend, Joe Mullen, is a warm and sweet guy, a considerate person who loves dogs and babies. When I see him in person, once every month or two, he makes a point to ask me what I’ve been up to, how my life is going. Joe is a big music fan, and we share a love of music made by weird…

Do you like The Wizard of Oz? Most likely you do. It’s a beloved film classic, a longtime television staple, and the movie that spawned the song “Over the Rainbow.“ But haven’t you ever thought to you

Want more Teen Vogue coverage of masculinity, the manosphere, and its role in U.S. politics? Check it out here. All names have been changed in this story. When Maisie first met Danny, she remembers th

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The splendor of the American big-box store lay before me, with its endless variety of shaving products in ever

Human echolocation has at times allowed people to ride bikes or play basketball despite being completely blind from a very young age. These echolocators typically perceive their environment by clickin

For me, it’s the amber glow of the fry machine gently illuminating the exhausted 45th president of the United States of America. The glare of the potato-warming apparatus casts a shadow on the left si

build The building, to be known as 520 Fifth Avenue, is adorned with setbacks and arches, nods to classic New York City architecture. Listen to this article · 5:55 min Learn more At 1,002 feet, 520 Fi

Namratha Prasad ST. LOUIS — It’s 8 p.m. when a St. Louis police patrol car pulls up in front of a teen’s home in the city’s Gravois Park neighborhood. The night watch has come. Soon, a familiar sound:

Palmer Luckey has, in some ways, come full circle. His first experience with virtual-reality headsets was as a teenage lab technician at a defense research center in Southern California, studying thei

Wall Street landlords don’t have a huge foothold in residential property yet, but they want one in the future. A handful of neighborhoods offer a preview of what that could mean for the U.S. housing m

For L.G.B.T.Q. people in Japan, to live openly is a radical act. Figuring out who they are can be an isolating struggle. We spoke with eight Japanese about how they discovered their identities. But ge

A new bar and basement nightclub has opened on Cherokee Street in the former Blank Space building: Tschüss, a project of the husband-and-wife team behind a nearby wine bar.

Vogue has its first guest editor. Just call it “The December Issue.” Listen to this article · 8:10 min Learn more This photo, an outtake from the Editor’s Latter of the December Vogue, “was Marc’s ide

During COVID, I walked a lot. As a consequence, I started listening to more podcasts. Since then the walking has dropped off dramatically, as my wife would tell you. The habit of listening to history

Op-ed, City of St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones, The St. Louis American, October 10, 2024 St. Louis is about to see a transformation in the ways we all get around. Between 2024 and 2027, more than $3

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This spring, applicants vying for a spot in the Art Directors Guild’s Production Design Initiative — a program that offers mentorship and on-the-job training to future production designers and art dir