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No. 353
April 18, 2026
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Vermeer
For two centuries after his death, in 1675, Johannes Vermeer was pretty much a forgotten artist; it took a French critic in the…
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Blunk Shop
Sculptor JB Blunk was one of California’s greatest back-to-the-land and made-by-hand artists. His lifelong practice of Zen…
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Reefer Madness
Despite its intention to scare teenagers straight, Reefer Madness is best watched high. The 1936 propaganda film…
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La Ligne
It’s been 10 years since La Ligne made the striped sweater feel like a personality trait and quietly revamped the modern basics…
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Ambiguous Desire
To be lost on the floor of a nightclub, dancing without abandon, is a euphoric feeling I wish I could bottle up forever. Luckily…
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Lives of the Saints
New York Review Books has done the world a solid by republishing Nancy Lemann’s 1985 cult novel, Lives of the Saints.…
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Vermeer
For two centuries after his death, in 1675, Johannes Vermeer was pretty much a forgotten artist; it took a French critic in the…
sip
Blunk Shop
Sculptor JB Blunk was one of California’s greatest back-to-the-land and made-by-hand artists. His lifelong practice of Zen…
watch
Reefer Madness
Despite its intention to scare teenagers straight, Reefer Madness is best watched high. The 1936 propaganda film…
shop
La Ligne
It’s been 10 years since La Ligne made the striped sweater feel like a personality trait and quietly revamped the modern basics…
listen
Ambiguous Desire
To be lost on the floor of a nightclub, dancing without abandon, is a euphoric feeling I wish I could bottle up forever. Luckily…
read
Lives of the Saints
New York Review Books has done the world a solid by republishing Nancy Lemann’s 1985 cult novel, Lives of the Saints.…
A Night Celebrating Jay McInerney Emily Ratajkowski, Eric Ripert, Cynthia Rowley, and others gathered at the Odeon in Tribeca to celebrate Jay McInerney’s new novel and the launch of his AIR MAIL column
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In Theaters
A new Lorne Michaels documentary is headed to theaters, and it’s got interviews with Tina Fey, Steve Martin, and many more…
In New York
The New Directors/New Films festival returns for its 55th edition, once again spotlighting cinema’s most promising young auteurs…
In London
An exhibition on the history and legacy of Black British musicians inaugurates the new V&A East Museum, in Stratford…
In Rome
The Anantara Concorso Roma, a brand-new rare-car spectacle, brings 70 historic automobiles back to the heart of the Eternal City…
On Apple TV
Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer star in a new series about a college dropout who turns to OnlyFans to cover her bills…
In New York
Matthew Gasda debuts his latest play, a sequel to Dimes Square, returning to the Downtown scene that both enthralls and suffocates the writer…
An American in Paris
The 71-year-old Alexander Calder was standing just outside Perls Galleries on upper Madison Avenue, looking at the terrazzo sidewalk he’d designed—a euphoric interaction of curves and grids. The occasion was a soigné charity benefit celebrating the installation, that rare instance when the public and private sectors have worked together to add pulse and joy to city life. The women in the gallery were society types who resembled the early wire sculpture that Calder called “The Debutante’s Mother,” while the men were mainly bankers in pinstripe suits. The artist, meanwhile, wore a red-plaid flannel shirt and workman’s trousers. READ ON
The Secret Life of Kurt Vonnegut A new coffee-table book reveals the satirist as a visual artist, collecting 150 whimsical doodles that his daughter Nanette, who also writes the introduction, kept private for decades
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