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The Rise and Fall of the Art World’s Gadfly As “Jerry Gogosian,” Hilde Lynn Helphenstein found fame skewering the industry online. But after making her, the Internet destroyed her

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Home Away from Homes Seemingly undeterred by record real-estate prices on the eastern tip of Long Island, the ultra-wealthy are complementing their second homes with … more homes


The Eternal Child A new documentary sheds fresh light on Louis Malle, the nouvelle vague contemporary whose films tackled complicated subjects with innocence and curiosity

The Joy of Missing Out After decades spent optimizing their lives, the affluent are now paying to be bored, silent, and uncomfortable

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The Hardest Day’s Night With photographs by Jim Marshall, a new coffee-table book revisits the charged, melancholy night the Beatles played the last concert of their final tour

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What’s Don Is Don In Twilight of the Dons, Colin Kidd revisits the golden age of Oxford and Cambridge’s academics, from World War II to Thatcherism

The Royal Treatment From The Crown to Love Story, Hollywood’s enduring fascination with the Windsors and the Kennedys has cemented their mythos for the next generation—but at what cost?


Fire Island Time A new coffee-table book looks beyond the island’s reputation as a queer summer utopia, revealing it, for the first time, as a creative hub that influenced artists from Richard Avedon to Wolfgang Tillmans

The Unstoppable Jasper Johns A retrospective in Bilbao, Spain, collects decades of work by the last great living survivor of the postwar generation

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Stretch Armstrong’s Favorite Things The legendary D.J. and taste-maker shares a tennis summer shaped by courtside discipline, downtown references, and the very New York conviction that taste governs everything from backhands to beats

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Foul Play How a group of former basketball players teamed up with a dodgy Beverly Hills dentist to defraud the N.B.A. out of $1 million

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