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The 2026 Oscars Were a Protest Against Their Own Irrelevance
These were stirring, unimpeachable sentiments; imagine the furor that might have erupted, by contrast, if Sean Penn, who famously disdains awards ceremonies, had shown up to collect his prize...
Can Psychoanalysis Help You Get the Life You Want?
Phillips is a figure for our therapy-soaked era, even if, for him, therapy feeds into and enables life, whereas we often seem to view life as feeding into and...
Who Bankrolled the American Revolution?
It would appear, in synthesis and to borrow a pleasing opposition of human types from John Milton, that Morris was the active Allegro principle of the firm, while Willing...
Maira Kalman’s “Amid It All”
For the cover of the March 23, 2026, Spring Style & Design Issue, the artist Maira Kalman painted a vase exploding with flowers, capturing the anticipatory air the season...
How Arsenio Hall Shook Up Late Night
Late night isn’t just a time slot. It’s a concept, a temporal metaphor for what we can get away with under the cloak of night, when the kids are...
What Egon Schiele Saw at the Hospital
Before meeting Graff and his patients, Schiele made art that was largely derivative. He had studied at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts with mixed results, and landed a few...
Noma’s Food Is Art. Its Head Chef and Co-Owner Is a Problem
People love to scoff at this sort of high-concept culinary stuff. What’s served at Noma is “food” in the way that couture is clothing–a basic human need spun so...
Big-Screen Remakes
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Films Are Fantasies. Here Are Their Realities.
Later, I learned that the man was Atsushi Nishijima, known as Jima—an on-set stills photographer who in the past decade and a half has worked with some of our...