New York
The Look From Here
The Birkin Bag of Workouts Since when did a single Pilates class cost $500? The slow-and-steady workout is now the height of luxury—and the depths of madness
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Is Savannah, Georgia, the Next Chernobyl? On this week’s podcast, John von Sothen reveals the bizarre story of Savannah and a missing nuclear bomb
Flights of Fancy
The Boom Before the Bust From caviar and Dom Pérignon at Mach 2 to the fatal Air France crash of 2000, former members of the Concorde crew revisit the era of supersonic flight
Books
A Tale of Two Richards
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette? The Bernadette Corporation, a radical 90s artist collective, made films and a fashion line for the downtown set, then largely disappeared. Now Metrograph is bringing them back
The Last Picture Show
One Hundred Years of Avedon Ahead of Richard Avedon’s centennial exhibition, Derek Blasberg reflects on the man who revolutionized fashion photography, and the mark he left on the genre as a whole
But First …
The View from Here Dandyish Cecil Beaton was an unlikely choice for royal photographer. But his portraits of Elizabeth gave a nation in crisis the monarch it needed
