New York
Skyline Scandals
Tax Shelters in the Sky For years, luxury Manhattan high-rises have been used to launder dirty foreign money. But with a new rule designed to curb the practice just weeks away, will oligarchs and dictators have to start looking elsewhere?
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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Tintoretto’s Magnum Opus An exhibition in Cincinnati unveils three newly restored works by the Italian Renaissance painter and rival of Titian
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
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Frank Shattuck
City Guides
Harold Koda’s Guide to Honolulu The former curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute shares his go-to spots in his hometown
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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
