New York
T.G.I.S.
The Attention-Whore Index Elon Musk is failing, Donald Trump is flailing, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is whaling
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
Arts and Letters
High Definition An exhibition of rare dictionaries includes volumes by Samuel Johnson and J. R. R. Tolkien
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
Highlight
A Musical Paint Box For the composer Anna Clyne, putting notes on paper and paint on canvas is part of a single creative process
Inside Story
The Shock of the Old An exhibition of 28 nearly 400-year-old paintings was the global cultural event of 2023. Why?
But First …
The View from Here An eight-hour trek through the Mexican wilderness in a drug dealer’s back seat, $1,000 beach-buggy rides … the lengths to which the young 1 percent will go for a party know no bounds
The Art of Scandal
Bait and Switch Impersonating a Mexican mogul was just the tip of the iceberg for Alberto Fis, a young art-and-sushi aficionado whose Manhattan omakase restaurant disguised a vast web of Inigo Philbrick–style fraud
