While the author has a wealth of respectful sources, it’s the queen’s words that drive the book. And that’s probably how she’d want it; she was known for the exacting attention she...
Read moreThere are more than 40 individual muscles in the human face, and when Kate Berlant tries to cry, she gives all of them a workout. An open-mouthed frown suggests the mask of...
Read moreWhen the pandemic hit in 2020, battering cultural institutions and forcing New York City Ballet to cancel performances for 18 months, the company reduced the salaries of dancers and other artists by...
Read moreLawyers for the pioneering chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili filed papers in federal court on Tuesday suggesting that they had settled her defamation lawsuit against Netflix over what they had described as a...
Read moreABC wraps up its new celebrity-adjacent competition show, and Showtime airs a modern TV version of the Richard Gere film.
Read moreMr. Finch wrote for Coagula for most of the 1990s, but by the end of the decade he had moved to Artnet. In a colorful remembrance posted on Coagula, Mr. Gleason wrote...
Read moreElizabeth Strout didn’t bat an eyelash when I admitted, moments after meeting her, that I’d snapped the handle off the toilet in her agent’s bathroom. I almost didn’t mention it — my...
Read moreTwo of Europe’s liveliest design celebrations return this month, each a multiday, multilayered extravaganza fusing local character with international creative talent. Paris Design Week runs from Thursday through Sept. 17, with scores...
Read moreLOS ANGELES — The door to a room at an assisted-living facility swung open, and out darted one of its occupants: a cat named Mignonne, who was eager for some fresh companionship....
Read moreOurs is an improbable world, in which Birkenstocks and tie-dye — once signifiers of hippie anti-style, as glamorous as trail mix — are now more chic than ever.But in the early 2000s,...
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