Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story You can want different things from a university—superlative basketball, an arts center, competent instruction in philosophy or physics, even a cure for cancer. No wonder these institutions struggle to keep everyone…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the strangest works of art in the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, is a painting by Jan Jansz Mostaert, who was born in Haarlem. It dates from around 1535 and bears…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story What, exactly, does a social network do? Is it a website that connects people with one another online, a digital gathering place where we can consume content posted by our friends?…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Melodrama isn’t central to modern French cinema, because melodrama is rooted in irony, whereas one could hardly slip a playing card between most great French directors’ intentions and results. But, in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “The Clock,” the addictive film masterpiece by the Swiss artist Christian Marclay, has been showing continually at MOMA since November, and some of us have become transfixed Clockwatchers, returning week after…
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. The exterior of Laliko, a sleek new restaurant…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Shortly after Pope Francis died, on Monday, the Vatican released a brief document he had authored in 2022, outlining his last testament: how and where he should be buried, how the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story President Donald J. Trump began his second term with a hundred-day blitz, as a way to both get revenge on his perceived foes and take the country in an autocratic direction.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The new pictures by Jeff Bark beg to be psychoanalyzed. The sixty-one-year-old photographer spent decades shuffling between making commercial images and more gallery-specific fare, honing a style of louche, opulent staged…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Before watching “April,” the new movie from the Georgian director and screenwriter Dea Kulumbegashvili, I had seen only one other fictional film that featured a real childbirth. It was “Staying Vertical”…