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Sculpture Wars

A Tale of Two Beans Two years after its unveiling, at the base of a Manhattan luxury tower, Anish Kapoor’s smaller “bean” is way more controversial than its Chicago predecessor

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Wall Street Woes

Two Turntables and the Goldman Sachs Revolt While their C.E.O. is D.J.-ing at Lollapalooza, Gen Z bankers are rebelling against a return-to-office order

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Lunch with Graydon Carter On this week’s episode of Table for Two, AIR MAIL’s Co-Editor embraces being compared to Buddy from Elf, explains how creativity could help you get into the Vanity Fair Oscar party, and more


Suite Smell of Success

The Secret Life of Hotels Before doing the Madeline children’s books and the murals for New York’s Carlyle-hotel bar, Ludwig Bemelmans worked at the Ritz—and kept notes

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“My Journey in Jewels” In Toledo, an exhibition showcases the jewelry designer Neil Lane’s celebrated private collection, featuring pieces once owned by stars such as Joan Crawford and Ginger Rogers

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Inside Story

Positively 4th Street When New York was still called New Amsterdam, a former slave ran a farm on the very terrain that would become the Greenwich Village stomping ground of folk singers and Beat poets

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Comedic Relief

Hollywood’s Conundrum What will happen to the new World War II films as war rages in the Middle East?

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Elon Musk is failing, Donald Trump is flailing, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is whaling

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Hollywood Lives

Kathryn Bigelow Goes Nuclear The Oscar-winning director is back in her happy place with the nail-biting, anxiety-inducing, apocalyptic political thriller A House of Dynamite

Party Hopping

Sunglasses After Dark A guided tour of CBGB, the Mudd Club, Tunnel, and downtown’s other lost nightlife haunts


Style and Substance

The Shoe Fits Want to walk on air? A new collection of stylish shoes manages the impossible, marrying fashion with comfort

Stranding Out!

Bounce with Me How do some New York women achieve such incredibly lush, shiny, healthy-looking hair? One new arrival steals their secrets

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Style

When Savile Row Met Carnaby Street Tommy Nutter clothed the Beatles and just about every other member of “Swinging London”

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Culture

The 96-Year Itch At 96, Marilyn Stafford, the masterful yet little-known photographer who shot everyone from Albert Einstein to Sharon Tate and everything from political unrest to war, gets her due

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Online Special

The Queen’s Gambit Meyerbeer’s Ozymandian masterpiece Les Huguenots

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Kiss and Makeup

Ultra Violet As the fairy-tale life of Violet Grey founder Cassandra Grey enters its next chapter, her business goes back on the block

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Arts and Letters

High Definition An exhibition of rare dictionaries includes volumes by Samuel Johnson and J. R. R. Tolkien

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Inside Story

The Dorothy Parker Tapes A biographer of the great 20th-century wit goes in search of 12 hours’ worth of lost recordings made by Gloria Vanderbilt’s husband Wyatt Cooper

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A Musical Paint Box For the composer Anna Clyne, putting notes on paper and paint on canvas is part of a single creative process


Lights Out!

Getting into Bed with Bridget Everett The actress and cabaret performer shares her nighttime routine

A Touch of Smut Wayne Koestenbaum has been writing seriously salacious poetry for decades. A new collection about New York and its denizens gets down and dirty

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