Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Charles Frederick Worth, the nineteenth-century designer widely credited as the inventor of haute couture, was not a modest man. “Madame, on whose recommendation have you come to me?” he is said…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. When the political activist, comedian, and…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last week, when the Times announced a shakeup of its arts desk that involved reassigning four of its critics—of theatre, TV, pop music, and classical music—to other roles, the reaction in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the literature about cruising from the late twentieth century, what stands out is the physical choreography of it. David Wojnarowicz, in his 1991 memoir, “Close to the Knives,” describes walking…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. It doesn’t take a surreptitious phone camera to get caught in a viral video. Smartphones have cast a decentralized…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the late days of June, as the old theatre season was ebbing away and new-season announcements were streaming in, a shock hit New York. Playwrights Horizons, the birthplace of shows…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Nothing to see here! CBS’s cancellation of “The Late Show,” an institution so basic to the texture of our rapidly thinning common entertainment culture that it feels like a quasi-public utility,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “We are appalled by the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the current American Administration,” said Sergio García Sánchez, the Spanish artist who drew the cover for the July 28, 2025, issue, an image…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story He sits squarely in front of us on the screen, a full-bodied man with a carefully trimmed white beard and a nearly bald head, his eyes looming behind dark-framed glasses—one eye…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Bánh, on the Upper West Side, is one…
