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In the Age of A.I., What Is Taste? And Do We Still Have It?
With artificial intelligence continuing to dominate corporate strategies and news headlines, Silicon Valley has embraced a new buzzword,…
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Were the 2026 Oscars a Swan Song for Warner Bros.?
The couple got into a Warner Bros.-issued Suburban. “Larry, do you have my speech?” Carter called out. (It would remain unread; she lost…
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As Movies Adapt to the Times, the Oscars Can Only Look On
In Hollywood, and at the Oscars, “hope” is a very big word. Chloé Zhao used it in her recorded introduction to a clip from her film…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The 2026 Oscars Review: A Tasteful and Overly Safe Show Sustained by Just Enough Suspense
In the best of all worlds, the Oscars are exciting: fun and suspenseful, moving and meaningful. At their most supreme, they leave you with…
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Big-Screen Remakes
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Nicole Kidman Says Her Oscar Prep Starts With Going to Church: ‘It Centers Me’
Ask most celebrities what they do to get ready for the Oscars and they’ll tell you something about a visit to the gym, maybe getting a…
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Renate Reinsve Mixes Hard Tailoring and Painted Satin in Khaite at WIF’s Oscars Nominees Celebration
Renate Reinsve broke from her Louis Vuitton awards season run on Friday night, arriving at the Women in Film Oscars Nominees Celebration…
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Discovery Has Shifted, But Websites Still Win
Search and discovery are changing fast. My take is simple: generative AI is already a top discovery channel, but it won’t replace websites…
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How to Watch the Oscars 2026 Red Carpet Online for Free
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. In…
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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…
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What Went Wrong When Susan Sontag Met Thomas Mann?
Gil Rodin sent his nephew to the Reinhardt Workshop, a performing-arts school run by the towering Austrian émigré director Max Reinhardt,…
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Brentford and Ireland captain Nathan Collins on World Cup dreams
Kelly: Let's try and get to know you a little bit more away from the pitch. Firstly, I always like asking: what were you like as a…
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Ways to Save Money on Global Shipping
Shipping overseas can be incredibly expensive, regardless of your company’s size or the volume of your overseas trade. Here are a few ways…
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French Director Arnaud Desplechin Talks ‘Two Pianos,’ New Hollywood Influences and His Next English-Language Film (EXCLUSIVE)
Arnaud Desplechin may be regarded as one of France’s quintessential auteurs, but American cinema has long been a guiding force in his…
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The Feminist Visionary Who Lost the Plot
Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her…
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Why Do Mind-Altering Drugs Make People Feel Better?
When Olson was at Stanford, he learned from a mentor who had honed a new method for developing drugs: function-oriented synthesis. Within…
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“Project Hail Mary”: In Space, No One Should Hear Your Glib Jokes
Enter Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller), a government official with a barbed half smile and a will of iron, who drags Grace back to the world of…
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Plus Size Singer and Model Katie Roeder of Season 4 Is Doing It All on Her Own Terms
She Sang, She Modeled, She Showed Up… Meet Katie Roeder of SZN4 If your mom has ever told you to watch something and been completely right…
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Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures
Still, the most remarkable performance at the Cherry Lane is by Peter Friedman, who plays the kind of father you rarely see in art: a good…
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Champions League: Arsenal's Havertz scores penalty to draw at Leverkusen
Arsenal's Kai Havertz scores a late penalty against his former club Bayer Leverkusen to draw 1-1 in the first leg of their last-16…
