The Price of Occupation

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On January 26, 2023, Israeli soldiers, hidden in the cargo hold of a dairy truck, rode into the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, where the Magnum photographer Sakir Khader…

Coty debuts new consumer fragrance brand Origen

The U.S. fragrance and cosmetics group has unveiled Origen, a new consumer beauty fragrance brand inspired by scent stories from around the world. The brand launches with five signature scents (Amazonian Water Lily; Yucatan Midnight Amber; Amalfi Love Bloom; Sahara…

How Rembrandt Saw Esther

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Jewish persecution and Jewish self-protection, not to mention Jewish paranoia, the relations of Jews and Persians, the morality of Jewish reprisals for Jewish persecution, even the impulsive acts of a dim-witted…

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black at Fenway

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I have a recurring dream about my father and me, one of the few welcome dreams I have about him. We’re both in our late thirties, though he’s fitter than I…

The Sophisticated Kitsch of Blackpink

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. In the mid-twenty-tens, the incandescent girl…

Beauford Delaney’s Light and Faith

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s so much going on in “In the Medium of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney” (at the Drawing Center through September 14th) that you may leave the show wishing there’d…