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Books • February 8, 2025

A new book collects portraits from the personal collection of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, the supermodel and wife of Irving Penn, with works by Richard Avedon, Man Ray, and George Hoyningen-Huene

By Elena Clavarino

Books • February 1, 2025

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

A new book of Edward Gorey’s letters offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the mind of one of America’s greatest illustrators

By Elena Clavarino

Culture • January 25, 2025

Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer

Why Audrey Hepburn’s granddaughter forewent a career in the spotlight to pursue painting

By Elena Clavarino

Recommended • January 25, 2025

Macian

STRUT

By Elena Clavarino

Modern Times • January 18, 2025

Milan Banned Smoking. Locals Aren’t Having It

“I’m moving to Rome”: the Milanese react to a new law prohibiting smoking in public spaces

By Elena Clavarino

Books • January 18, 2025

Here’s Stanley!

A new, two-volume compendium offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Shining

By Elena Clavarino

Recommended • January 18, 2025

Adam Charlap Hyman

SET

By Elena Clavarino

Books • January 11, 2025

Hidden Figures

Historically overlooked, the works of Japanese female photographers from the 1950s to today are celebrated in a new coffee-table book

By Elena Clavarino

Culture • January 11, 2025

Once upon a Time in Ukraine

A new documentary looks at Russia’s brutal invasion from the eyes of the children living through it

By Elena Clavarino

Books • January 4, 2025

Grit and Glam

From tabloid shots in New York to portraits of Hollywood stars, the Ukrainian photographer Weegee did it all

By Elena Clavarino

Books • December 28, 2024

Poetry in Motion

A new coffee-table book pays homage to Alexander Calder’s kinetic sculptures with a selection of works from the American artist’s most prolific period

By Elena Clavarino

Culture • December 21, 2024

I’m Dreaming of a … Pink Christmas?

The holidays in Oaxaca, Mexico, bring cheer, gifts, and a fierce, century-old competition involving radishes, of all things

By Elena Clavarino

Books • December 21, 2024

Past and Presents

Dollhouses, paper angels, fir trees … A new coffee-table book looks back at a century of holiday photographs from around the world

By Elena Clavarino

Culture • December 14, 2024

Rock v. Wade

Singing and abortion rights converge in 1972, a new rock opera from the musician and activist Chadwick Stokes, produced by Laurie David and Sybil Gallagher

By Elena Clavarino

Style • December 14, 2024

Pia Mance

How the creator behind the viral jewelry brand Heaven Mayhem brought back 80s-style earrings—and got Hailey Bieber to wear them

By Elena Clavarino

Morning Meeting • November 30, 2024

The Highs and Heartbreaks of Living in New York City

On this week’s podcast, we look at Bobby Short at 100 and the end of En Japanese Brasserie

By Ashley Baker, Michael Hainey

Books • November 30, 2024

America’s Sweethearts

A new coffee-table book presents a visual history of the United States from the 1940s to today, courtesy of Magnum photographers

By Elena Clavarino

Food and Drink • November 30, 2024

En Everlasting

As New York says good-bye to En Japanese Brasserie, its owner looks back on 20 years spent serving—and partying late into the night with—everyone from Yoko Ono to Q-Tip, Lou Reed, and Martha Stewart

By Elena Clavarino

Culture • November 30, 2024

Notes from Underground

Keinemusik’s catchy brand of house music has attracted everyone from bankers to groupies. But is the German D.J. trio anything more than a status symbol?

By Elena Clavarino

Books • November 23, 2024

We’ll Always Have the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Paul Frank rockets, Hello Kitty planes, SpongeBob Santas … Elizabeth Kahane’s photos of the New York mainstay, taken from her third-floor window over the last 25 years, are collected in a festive coffee-table book

By Elena Clavarino

Books • November 16, 2024

Teenage Wasteland

A new book of photographs by Beth Garrabrant—the artist behind Taylor Swift’s recent album covers—documents youth in the American suburbs

By Elena Clavarino

Books • November 9, 2024

It Takes Two

On what would have been Robert Frank’s 100th birthday, a window into his friendship with fellow photographer—and protégé—Edward Keating

By Elena Clavarino

Culture • November 9, 2024

2024: A Space Odyssey

Stars, black holes, meteorites … An exhibition in New York pays tribute to the late Pop artists, friends, and cosmos enthusiasts Alain Jacquet and James Rosenquist, presenting their work together for the first time

By Elena Clavarino

Crime and Scandal • November 9, 2024

There’s No Place Like Ontario Place

Once home to a public park and architectural marvels, an island off the shore of the idyllic Lake Ontario is being turned into a big-budget spa, to the ire of some locals

By Elena Clavarino