Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The sole skyscraper in central Paris celebrated its fiftieth anniversary recently, though “celebrate” may not be le mot juste. When the city’s official Twitter account wished the Tour Montparnasse (“Montparnasse Tower”)…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When the main branch of the New York Public Library was dedicated, on May 23, 1911, John Alden Dix, the governor of New York, hailed it as “the generator of moral…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There are movies about filmmaking, and novels about professors of literature, but there aren’t many comic-book biographies of cartoonists. Enter Bill Griffith, who, as the creator of a character called Zippy…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At some point in my childhood, I persuaded my parents to buy me a computer game at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Obsessed, like many kids, with ancient Egypt, I’d spent…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Kelly Clarkson’s voice was always wasted on saccharine ballads such as “A Moment Like This,” the début single that she released, in 2002, after winning the inaugural season of “American Idol.”…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Shot in the style of a retro promotional trailer for a Hollywood film, this fake trailer features Bill Murray, in a fake role that was “cut” from “Asteroid City,” and Jason…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “In these parts of the world, where people live in extremely rough circumstances, they’re able to put aside [their] differences in the name of protecting their environment,” the director David Alexander…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The gutting of Turner Classic Movies by its parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, is a grim omen for the future of the channel. Much of its leadership team was pushed out,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story 1 / 10ChevronChevronPlace Saint-André-des-Arts. c. 1865. © Charles Marville Marville/Musée Carnavalet/Roger-Viollet/The Image Works. The Paris we know is shaded white and gray, a city of zinc roofs and pale stone façades…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I’ll say this for Hudson Yards, the twenty-five-billion-dollar, twenty-eight-acre development that has risen, like some Tolkien tower, on the far West Side of Manhattan: it would be a great setting for…