Civilians describe being snatched from their homes and sent away for ideological screening, prolonged detention, and, in some cases, starvation and torture. Is there a larger plan at work?
The musicians in the latest micro-generation are more TikTok-savvy and self-promotional than their predecessors, but also more winking about this approach.
In “american (tele)visions,” a family from Mexico spends more time at Walmart than in their trailer, and Little Amal, a twelve-foot-tall puppet of a ten-year-old Syrian refugee, roams Harlem.
Amy Davidson Sorkin on the new Supreme Court term; Diane Arbus’s Anderson Cooper; vinyl treasures; losing the cool card; Leezy’s Virgil Abloh pilgrimage.
When the CNN anchor was just weeks old, Diane Arbus took his photograph; the shot, “A Very Young Baby,” has hung in MOMA, in the stairwell of his home, and, now, at the David Zwirner Gallery.
The yellow Georgian house on the tip of Long Island holds three centuries’ worth of secrets, including a stash of mint 45s by the Beatles, Sonny and Cher, and Marianne Faithfull.
Leezy, the bassist for the band Khruangbin, who appears publicly only in disguise, takes in a retrospective of her late friend’s work at the Brooklyn Museum.
“Grant had been through this kind of thing with Rufus before, climbing things, sliding down things, and getting a truck onto two wheels while exiting a Tulsa off-ramp.”
Five British monarchs, from Henry VII to Elizabeth I, as well as the European artists who flourished under their patronage, are the focus of the exhibition “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England.”
It’s easy to feel at home at this new restaurant, in Brooklyn’s Little Pakistan, which serves bolani (stuffed savory pastries), mantu (lamb dumplings), and chicken and vegetable dishes in addition to the more traditional beef and lamb.
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