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The View from Here Louis C.K. wins a Grammy? New York magazine takes on B.L.M.? Has the backlash to wokeism begun?

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Running Out the Clock In Russia, not much has changed since the invasion of Ukraine. But as the war drags on, there’s a sense of fiddling while the world burns

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What on Earth Happened to Lara Logan? The former 60 Minutes foreign correspondent recently took a hard turn to the conspiratorial and anti-Semitic right. Is PTSD the cause, or is there something else?

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Tampa vs. Albany The startling similarities and eerie differences between Tom Brady and Andrew Cuomo

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L’Artusi Reserve @nycresx Not good at booking reservations in advance? Always canceling yours at the last minute? The Instagram account @nycresx has… BEN WHISHAW and AMBIKA MOD in THIS IS GOING TO HURT (2022), directed by LUCY FORBES and TOM KINGSLEY Watch This Is Going to Hurt Since Adam Kay, a former National Health Services doctor, published his memoir, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor Learn Idlewild Language Classes As Air Mail’s advertising director, I spend much of my time on Zoom meetings or WhatsApp calls… Eat Fine & Raw In 2007, Daniel Sklaar, a financial analyst, started making chocolate in a small loft in Brooklyn and hand-delivering his truffles… Strut Le Monde Béryl We’ve been wearing Le Monde Béryl’s take on the Venetian gondolier slipper since the brand’s inception, in 2016. Designers Lily Atherton Hanbury Carry Giuliva Heritage Our retirement savings would be so much more robust if we didn’t have a weakness for Giuliva Heritage. Designers (and life partners)… L’Artusi Reserve @nycresx Not good at booking reservations in advance? Always canceling yours at the last minute? The Instagram account @nycresx has… BEN WHISHAW and AMBIKA MOD in THIS IS GOING TO HURT (2022), directed by LUCY FORBES and TOM KINGSLEY Watch This Is Going to Hurt Since Adam Kay, a former National Health Services doctor, published his memoir, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor Learn Idlewild Language Classes As Air Mail’s advertising director, I spend much of my time on Zoom meetings or WhatsApp calls… Eat Fine & Raw In 2007, Daniel Sklaar, a financial analyst, started making chocolate in a small loft in Brooklyn and hand-delivering his truffles… Strut Le Monde Béryl We’ve been wearing Le Monde Béryl’s take on the Venetian gondolier slipper since the brand’s inception, in 2016. Designers Lily Atherton Hanbury Carry Giuliva Heritage Our retirement savings would be so much more robust if we didn’t have a weakness for Giuliva Heritage. Designers (and life partners)…
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“Goodness, this interview sure consists of an unusual number of hypothetical questions about how to hide a corpse.”

The Andrew Formerly Known as Prince A convicted Libyan gun smuggler, a royal introduction to a pedophile, a $50 million lawsuit—it’s just another week for Andrew

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Fifth Ave. Pied-à-Terror Correspondence reveals Vladimir Putin’s plan to annex unlisted properties on New York’s Upper East Side


Landing Gear A pocket translator to help you speak for yourself; earbuds that encourage, rather than encumber, sleep; a charging cable that knows how to adapt; and more

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I Identify, Therefore I Am When did it become so dangerous to have an opinion?

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My Favorite Things London-based designer Beata Heuman is busy working on multiple residential projects around the globe, in addition to her first hotel, located in Paris. Herewith, she shares a few of her top selections of the moment

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A Dirty Business A whistleblower from the factory of millionaire artist Damien Hirst paints a grim scene of low wages and employees knee-deep in formaldehyde

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The First Couple of Pop Art

“Marisol and Warhol Take New York” is the tallyho title of an exhibition that re-unites the two kindred weirdo spirits who became, for a brief Camelot spell, the First Couple of Pop Art. Their trajectories then diverged, and therein lies the story. Marisol Escobar, a Venezuelan born in Paris and raised in affluence, and Andy Warhol, a spindly refugee from the scruffy outskirts of Pittsburgh, first met in 1962 and immediately serenaded each other through their art. Marisol made a wooden sculpture of Andy, a cast of her hands resting demurely in his lap; Warhol in turn filmed her for a few early experimental shorts and enshrined her in one of his famous screen tests, where, unlike so many of the other fidgets in the series, she barely blinked. READ ON

Marisol Escobar, a Venezuelan born in Paris, and Andy Warhol, a refugee from Pittsburgh, first met in 1962.

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“What is it about a T-shirt cannon that says ‘foreplay’ to you?”

Will Prince Andrew Tank the Firm? He’s desperately clinging to Mummy in public, and that’s not good for Charles and William

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Roman Malady Italians love a touch of hypochondria. The problem is, it’s highly contagious

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Drink and Be Merry The fervor for bar carts is a clear sign that our pandemic pastimes are here to stay

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Sitting Pretty Long before table-scaping was a trend, Simrane was dressing the toniest tables around the world

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Jeff Koons on the Moon And other strange news about these curious days …

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Ay Khanoum (Lady Moon), a hand-carved chess set inspired by pre-Islamic mythical figures, by Naseer Yasna and Hedieh Wojgani.

East Meets West in Venice

Venice’s Fondazione Giorgio Cini is located on San Giorgio Maggiore, a small islet just opposite the entrance to the Canal Grande. There isn’t much on this patch of land. Just an old spired church, greenery, and the foundation’s complex, which looks across the lagoon to St. Mark’s Square and the Doge’s Palace. The space—43,000 square feet—has rarely been open to the public in its entirety. For three weeks, however, beginning on April 10, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini opens all its spaces to Homo Faber, a major showcase of contemporary artisans. READ ON


Noémie Merlant The French actress is breaking into Hollywood the same way she stormed Paris from the provinces

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Serving Up Looks CT Hedden got his start as a bartender at Indochine. Now he’s the toast of Paris Fashion Week

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Open Book

Enter the Beaux-Arts A new book highlights the gilded Beaux-Arts architecture of turn-of-the-last-century New York City

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Books

The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

by Tom Sancton
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Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision

by Charles Elton
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The Man Who Invented Movies While Thomas Edison is widely known as “the father of motion pictures,” a Frenchman by the name of Louis Le Prince actually got there first—and then disappeared

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Castello di Vicarello On a hilltop in Italy’s Maremma region, it’s as close to paradise as one can get

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Swing into spring!
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Issue No. 143
April 9, 2022
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Issue No. 143
April 9, 2022

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