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Film
The Robin Hood of Art How did a British taxi driver abscond with a Goya masterpiece through a National Gallery toilet window? A new film starring Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent has the answer
Boom and Bust
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
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
Real Estate for the 1 Percent
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?
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
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
Social Studies
So You Want to Be a Guru? Fabulously wealthy women are rebranding themselves as lifestyle gurus. Who’s buying it?
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
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
