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Yoko Before John To understand the most misunderstood woman of the last half-century, you have to go back to the beginning

By Legs McNeil

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Food With a Side of Culture

Dinner Through the Gift Shop New York’s art institutions—from Sotheby’s to the Met—are getting into the restaurant business, and finally making it worth staying after dark

By Christine Muhlke

New & Noteworthy

Hot Stuff Things I love right now

By Linda Wells

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Me&Em

By Ashley Baker

Jean-Georges’s New Temple to Food With 12 restaurants, four bars, and three gourmet groceries, New York’s Tin Building is a world unto itself. (And maybe the chef is, too.)

By Jeff Gordinier

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Road-Tripping Across the Engadin Valley with Kenny Schachter The art critic travels through Switzerland in an Integra Type R—with stops at singular galleries, enchanting museums, and a gas station designed by an Aston Martin heir along the way

By Kenny Schachter

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Digital Party

By Elena Clavarino

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Glass Century

By Jack Sullivan

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A Night Celebrating Ashe Leandro Seth Meyers, Amy Schumer, and others gathered at the AIR MAIL Newsstand last Thursday to toast the publication of the design duo’s new book, Ashe Leandro: Architecture + Interiors

By Carolina de Armas

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Man Ray’s Halo Effect A new book surveys the life and work of the prolific 20th-century artist who revolutionized photography and pioneered the Surrealist movement

By Elena Clavarino

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Aram the Cobbler

By Michael Hainey

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Social Studies

Holy Smoke Everyone knows the hazards of smoking, and still some members of the Erewhon set are taking up the habit

By Danielle Pergament

Modern Times

Meltdown in Millbrook After leaving Eleven Madison Park, restaurateur Will Guidara set out to open a five-star hotel in New York’s Hudson Valley. The town has other plans …

By Jay Cheshes

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WQXR

By Nathan King

The Hackman Connection Inside the wild, epic filming of William Friedkin’s The French Connection, which made a star of the late Gene Hackman

By Alexander Larman

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Inside the Crime That Scandalized New York’s Bluebloods On this week’s podcast, Michael Gross takes a new look at the conviction of Brooke Astor’s son for stealing millions from her

By Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey

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A Town Without Time

By Jim Kelly

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Casa Susanna

By David Christopher Kaufman

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Kara Swisher The pioneering tech journalist, whose Burn Book is topping the best-seller lists, can’t wait to share her hates

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Owen Kline The actor’s directorial debut, a film about a young cartoonist finding his way, reflects his own childhood spent studying comic books and haunting video stores

By Nicolas Rapold

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His Last Duchess Samuel Ramey and Jessye Norman mesmerize in a 1989 Met performance of Bluebeard’s Castle

By Matthew Gurewitsch

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Gohar World

By Jeanne Malle

Inside Story

The Secret Life of James Dean Never-before-seen correspondence sheds fresh light on the 1950s Hollywood heartthrob’s long-speculated-about sexuality

By Jason Colavito

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Postcard

By Gracie Wiener

Conner Ives The 29-year-old fashion designer, who has dressed everyone from Rihanna to Ivy Getty, is only just getting started

By Carolina de Armas

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