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When the Art World Lost Its Mind (and Money) NFTs once promised to revolutionize creativity and commerce. Four years later, the market has collapsed, fortunes have vanished, and the art scene is still reckoning with what it all meant

By Chris Harvey

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Eight Questions

High Noonan The Pulitzer Prize–winning political columnist Peggy Noonan discusses her note from Trump, the surprising reason why he is not a Neanderthal, and writing in Edmund Burke for president

By Jim Kelly

Book Reviews

Something About Them

By Max Carter

Books

Growing Up Gilman

By Joanne Kaufman

Bleak House, New York–Style For a quarter-century, artists, activists, and plutocrats have been battling over the future of a former public school in the East Village. Is the end finally in sight?

By Charles V. Bagli

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War Crimes Sixty years ago, a Russian poet inspired the creation of a Holocaust memorial at Babi Yar, in Ukraine. This year, a Russian missile strike nearly destroyed it

By Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger

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Edge Lord Literary agent John Brockman knows everybody who’s anybody in science. Thanks to him, so did Jeffrey Epstein

By Sam Kahn

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Frederik Bille Brahe Thirteen years ago, the Danish chef brought casual cool to Copenhagen’s fine-dining scene. Now he’s opened Daphne, his biggest restaurant yet

By Mary Holland

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The Wythe and Wherefores How an Americana brand grounded in craftsmanship and a distinctly Western sensibility came to be

By Louis Cheslaw

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Getting Into Bed With Cindy Crawford The supermodel and founder of Meaningful Beauty shares her nighttime routine

By Jeanne Malle

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Pied-à-Terror! A new annual surcharge on New York’s luxury pieds-à-terre has the 1 percent crying robbery. But when has a tax ever actually driven the rich from Park Avenue?

By Michael Gross

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NIMBY For The 1 Percent

It’s RH’s World Restoration Hardware, the high-end housewares company that recently rebranded as RH, is on a mission to colonize luxury cities. In Aspen, residents are drawing the line

By Emilia Petrarca

Highlight

An American in Paris Wire acrobats, floating mobiles, wooden figures … Celebrating the centenary of Alexander Calder’s years living in the French capital, an exhibition presents more than 300 of his works

By Nicholas Fox Weber

National Bête Noire

The Face in the Mirror James Corden’s chummy charm conquered America, but the United Kingdom isn’t so keen

By Barbara Ellen

Beating the System When every studio in Hollywood passed on Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola—the most successful movie director on the planet—became an independent filmmaker

By Sam Wasson

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Hell on Wheels Thousands of confidential files leaked by a Tesla employee reveal noxious working conditions, flawed technology, and a delusional, unstable C.E.O.

By Oliver Moody

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For All Your Death-Defying Needs Whether you were Amelia Earhart, Ernest Hemingway, or a very hungover Clark Gable, the original Abercrombie & Fitch was the perfect store for adventurers of all stripes

By Henry R. Schlesinger

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Medieval Chivalry for the Modern World Director Joe Wright’s new anti-musical musical adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac has shades of his own off-screen love triangle

By Ed Potton

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Kahlo Incorporated How did Frida Kahlo go from being a little-known artist to a feminist icon to a global brand?

By Rosie Millard

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Jocelyn Bioh Ahead of the Broadway debut of her new play, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, the actress and playwright discusses why she infuses her stories with humor

By Paulina Prosnitz

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So You Want to Be a Guru? Fabulously wealthy women are rebranding themselves as lifestyle gurus. Who’s buying it?

By Judith Newman

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Film Classics

After Hours: The Oral History of a Cult Classic With his career on the ropes, Martin Scorsese fought his way back to the top with a low-budget, surreal black comedy, set in New York’s gritty downtown scene

By Jake Malooley

Arts and Culture

A Weekend at Marchmont On a recent spring day in the Scottish countryside, the newly restored estate of Rory McEwen hosted a tribute to the late, great British artist and folk singer

By James Fox

Books

An Unblessed Arrangement Inside the turbulent life and times of Consuelo Vanderbilt, the last heiress to be able to blame her unhappy marriage on someone other than herself

By Laura Thompson

Popcorn Presidents The movies watched in the White House provide fascinating insights into the mindset—angry, affable, aggrieved—of its inhabitants

By Rich Cohen

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